Senior Vice President (C14), Legal Entity Governance – Process Control Sr. Lead Analyst

Location: Tampa, FL

The Legal Entity & Booking Model Governance Team

Citi’s Legal Entity & Booking Model Governance (LE & BM) Team has responsibility to oversee and govern how Citi organizes and utilizes its legal entities across its global footprint.  The LE & BM Team is comprised of the Legal Entity Governance and Booking Model Management teams.

The Legal Entity Governance team manages and maintains information to support Citi’s regulatory and financial reporting as well as supporting fiduciary responsibilities related to the governance of legal entities; including processes, controls, data, and systems related to the lifecycle of all of Citi’s legal entities. To support Citi’s Recovery and Resolution Planning, the team ensures Citi maintains a resolvable and efficient legal entity structure through simplification and optimization efforts and coordinates a Virtual Data Room process which collects documents to support Citi’s resolution capabilities. 

The Booking Model Management team focuses on creating and monitoring Citi’s end-to-end booking practices while developing a global framework, standard, and governance across all products and Material Legal Entities (MLE).  The framework requires that businesses follow the requirements of Citi’s Booking Model Policy for the design of their booking models and practices, validate that proposed booking practices comply with a set of principles, apply appropriate execution controls to ensure compliance by utilizing Citi’s governance framework for controls, monitoring, and escalation. 

Job Functions and Responsibilities

This Senior Vice President (SVP) role within the LE & BM team is a highly strategic role that will contribute significantly to the oversight of Citi’s legal entity structure and governance of the legal entity framework.  This will include involvement in various processes and functions, such as legal entity data analytics, process oversight, and management and regulatory progress reporting (oversight and governance of the FR Y-10 and After-the-Fact filings) which require working with multiple stakeholders across the firm.

This SVP role also serves as a leader responsible to support the Legal Entity Rationalization requirements in Citi’s Recovery and Resolution plan.  This includes management of Citi’s Virtual Data Room (VDR) resolution capability, which ensures Citi’s maintains the capability to divest itself in the event of a resolution scenario through population of data rooms.  Additionally, the role will govern Citi’s Legal Entity Rationalization Framework across global stakeholders to enforce compliance with resolution principles to maintain an efficient and rationalized legal entity structure.  

Some of the responsibilities of the role include:

• Support processes and initiatives regarding legal entity governance, rationalization and simplification efforts through review of Citi’s controlled legal entities across geographies, businesses, and legal entity types to identify potential opportunities for entity optimization.
• Support Citi’s and CBNA’s Recovery and Resolution planning by strategically partnering with Controllers, Treasury, Central Resolution team and other stakeholders to meet regulatory expectations.
• Oversight of Legal Entity Policy, including the central management of Legal Entity Criteria Test (annual exercise to demonstrate compliance with Policy’s Principles.)
• Support preparation of executive/management level reporting and regulatory requests, including oversight and governance of the FR Y-10 and After-the-Fact filings.
• Collaborate with global stakeholders to execute the coordination and tracking of data collection and review for each virtual data room.
• Support the coordination of the Legal Entity Steering Committee (LESC) meeting by setting the agenda and preparing materials.  The LESC is Citi’s senior management committee focused on legal entity governance. 
• Identify process improvement and automation opportunities. Interfaces with the Citi Development and Technology teams to establish business requirements for systems and enhancements.
• Support the Legal Entity & Booking Model Governance team and Global Controllers CAO on other processes or initiatives as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, Management, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field in the Financial Services industry.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office products, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to influence and communicate effectively across functions, including written, verbal, active listening, and presentation skills.
• Experience partnering with people and functions to drive the design and implementation of new or improved best practices and controls.
• Ability to apply independent judgment to business practices, challenge the status quo, and develop improvements to existing processes and practices.
• A self-starter with the ability to independently manage work and drive multiple deliverables concurrently.
• Experience creating and delivering concise and informative executive summaries for senior management.
• Experience with process optimization and re-engineering or project management is beneficial.
• Knowledge of Corporate Governance and Legal Entity Management a plus.
• Experience with virtual data rooms related to resolution, post-merger integration or M&A a strong plus.
• Detail oriented with an ability to understand the strategic vision and direction for the “big picture”.
• Experience working with various functions and businesses across multiple geographies.
• Analytical, flexible, and team-oriented, with excellent interpersonal, communication, and follow-up skills.
• Possess strong attention to detail and with the ability to distill complex ideas into simple messages is important.

GETZVILLE Salary Range: $115,840.00 to $173,760.00

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Job Family Group:

Finance

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Job Family:

Process Control

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Time Type:

Full time

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Primary Location:

Tampa Florida United States

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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:

$130,880.00 - $196,320.00

In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Oct 07, 2024

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