The Credit Portfolio Group Manager is a senior management-level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department to monitor the Citi portfolio and identify credit migration in coordination with the Risk Management team. The overall objective of this role is to lead the management of Citi's portfolio exposure to client and counterparties globally.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of risk analysts and manage complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas
• Lead risk financial forecasting efforts, including designing and maintaining complex credit loss and financial risk forecasting models, conducting cost of credit analyses, and monitoring product trends to identify key areas of risk-opportunity
• Develop, test, optimize and implement credit/valuation policies
• Manage risk levels for the entire credit/valuation spectrum across multiple products and retail formats consistent with program financial goals
• Track and report on initiatives, performance results, emerging trends and opportunities to senior management
• Establish cross-functional partnerships and networks in order to support the execute cross-functional and business initiatives
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in credit risk management or equivalent training
• Experience in the financial services industry preferred
• Demonstrated accountability for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/geographic regions
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Proven negotiation skills often used at a senior level
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize, prioritize and drive results with urgency
• Ability to obtain support and buy-in across a wide range of internal and external audiences

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's degree preferred

This role will be the India Unsecured Policy lead responsible for end-to-end risk strategy and execution, including managing credit losses. You will work closely with business and risk partners to drive initiatives that deliver growth and resilient profitability for the Unsecured portfolio. You will also leverage shared functions such as collections, governance, loss forecasting, and risk systems to support business needs effectively.

In this role, you will

• Supports the management and optimization of risk policy for a $150B+ portfolio by leveraging best practices across risk functions to ensure consistent and efficient portfolio-wide risk mitigation.

• Partner with central Risk functions, including Acquisition Risk, Existing Customer Management (ECM) Risk, and Strategic Initiative Risk

• Lead the team in performing quantitative analyses to assess risk-adjusted return, risk segmentation, and tradeoffs in Policy Changes

• Lead and develop reporting subordinates, especially around developing sound analytical approach to solve business problems

• Drive innovative thinking about leveraging new tools/methods to transform the analytical capability of the organization

• Understand regulatory headwinds actions and develop mitigation / opportunity strategies

• Ensure simplification and standardization of the process, strategies and bring synergies across USCC

• Ensure appropriate documentation of the current process to drive better productivity levels

• Cross functional leadership (communication and influencing) to drive towards common goal across risk organization i.e. Credit Abuse, PQR, RAF, ROTCE, Strategic Initiatives, Independent risk.

• Maintain a strong culture of risk and controls in the team through various process and check points and ensure that the risk in operations is understood and controlled by the team members

• Respond to effective challenge from second line

• Serve as SME for audits, model use and implementation of strategies

• Ensuring strategies are executed in a strong control environment

• Plan and hire the right set of people, train, guide, coach, develop, appraise and reward people based on meritocracy and drive alignment between US and India leadership

• Identify and develop high performers for next level jobs/ senior management positions

We will be thrilled to have someone who is

• An experienced credit policy manager – who has the vision and can adapt to changing technology and the demands of the governance and regulation.

• Creative –who can take a concept and give it shape and structure. Is not afraid to ask questions and loves playing with new ideas.

• Has good Judgment – knows when something does not add up and is not right. Has attention to details and can get into the weeds when needed.

• A Leader – leads by example and is not afraid to challenge status quo. Inspires people with presence. Knows talent when they see it and will create a conducive environment to nurture and grow it.

Qualification

• 15+ years of experience in credit risk management

• Experience in the financial services industry preferred

• Demonstrated accountability for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/geographic regions

• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication

• Proven negotiation skills often used at a senior level

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize, prioritize and drive results with urgency

• Ability to obtain support and buy-in across a wide range of internal and external audiences

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, or equivalent experience. Master’s/PhD degree is a plus

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Job Family Group:

Risk Management

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Job Family:

Portfolio Credit Risk Management

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Analytical Thinking, Credible Challenge, Governance, Policy, Procedure, and Regulation, Portfolio Analysis, Risk Management Lifecycle.

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Other Relevant Skills

Constructive Debate, Escalation Management, Industry Knowledge, Policy and Procedure, Policy and Regulation, Process Execution, Product Knowledge, Risk Controls and Monitors, Risk Identification and Assessment.

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