Finance Risk and Control Officer

Posted:
9/3/2024, 12:00:17 AM

Location(s):
Budapest, Hungary

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Finance & Banking

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Join our expanding Citi Finance Team in Budapest and make your own progress in a supportive and friendly environment!

We are a people-oriented organization that appreciates and promotes personal and professional aspirations. Our corporate culture is empathic: we acknowledge life-work balance throughout your career path.

Finance Risk and Control Officer 

The Finance Risk and Control Officer is senior professional position responsible for performing moderately complex assessments of Citi’s risk and control environments and document the applicable action plans to resolve any improvements required. The overall objective is to utilize in-depth subject matter expertise to ensure that the firm meets audit standards/metrics and regulations working across ~90 countries in International to determine solutions for emerging issues. The role will support the International Controllers Risk and Control Team.
 

What you’ll do:

  • Identify operational risks and effective implement solutions, by performing Pre-Audit Readiness Reviews.
  • Support International Controllers in the Audit Management process.
  • Perform control deep dives across all business areas and countries, to identify control deficiencies, control best practices and consistency of approach.
  • Provide adequate challenge to the Controllers functions to ensure control design is followed while performing production activities.
  • Participate in the review and implementation of projects that drives Global and International work and transformation.
  • Assist in the implementation of new policies and controls.
  • Recommend solutions for risk and control problems and action plans, partner with Senior Stakeholders to develop approaches for broader corporate/local issues.
  • Keep abreast of internal policy changes to further identify new key risk areas impactful to current open issues.
  • Provide guidance in evaluating the risks & controls, and ensure appropriate remedial actions are in place.

What we’ll need from you:

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance or similar
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in Financial Control/ Internal and External Audit
  • Regulatory Reporting and Accounting knowledge
  • Strong Excel & PowerPoint skills 
  • Must have analytical inquisitiveness and problem-solving skills and ability to ask insightful questions, break analytical and business challenges into workable components and draw meaningful conclusions.
  • Demonstrated ability to be detail-oriented, and manage multiple competing priorities including emerging risks to deliver solutions in an effective control environment.
  • Pursues continuous process and self-improvement opportunities.
  • Ability to collaborate with others to achieve business objectives; must be able to work with multi-disciplinary teams from different regions.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to deal with colleagues at all levels across the Firm.
  • Good communication (written and verbal) skills in English
  • Ability to initiate and manage change, including driving cultural changes to strengthen the control environment.
  • Good problem solving skills and ability to articulate potential solutions.

By joining Citi Hungary, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive compensation package and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well:

  • Cafeteria Program
  • Home Office Allowance (for colleagues working in hybrid work models)
  • ·Paid Parental Leave Program (maternity and paternity leave)
  • Private Medical Care Program and onsite medical rooms at our offices
  • Pension Plan Contribution to voluntary pension fund
  • Group Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Access to a wide variety of learning and development programs, online course libraries and upskilling platforms, such as Udemy and Degreed
  • Flexible work arrangements to support you in managing work - life balance
  • Career progression opportunities across geographies and business lines
  • Socially active employee communities with diverse networking opportunities

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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Job Family Group:

Finance

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Job Family:

Product Control

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Time Type:

Full time

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