Risk Management Country Sr. Officer I

Citigroup Inc.; Buenos Aires; On-site; ARS 181,906,000 - 272,860,000; Full time

Job summary

Citigroup Inc. is seeking a Risk Management Country Officer in Argentina to provide strategic risk guidance for country operations and to partner with Citi Country Officers on risk and regulatory matters.

The role leads franchise-level risk oversight, analyzes credit/exposure, and ensures timely escalation of risk issues across legal entities. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in risk, advanced degrees preferred, and bilingual Spanish/English, with a proven ability to influence senior

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience
• Advanced degree (e.g. JD, MBA) preferred
• Expertise of Compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and typologies
• Excellent written, verbal and analytical skills Must be a self-starter, flexible, innovative and adaptive Highly motivated
• Proven ability to guide decision-making processes and implement technical solutions effectively.
• In-depth conceptual/practical grounding in the function and/or expertise in related subject areas
• Fully bilingual (Spanish & English)

Responsibilities

• Serves as the single point of contact for franchise-level risk matters relating to the businesses operating in the country.
• Provides risk management partnership to Citi Country Officers (CEOs/CCOs).
• Escalates and resolves franchise-level risk issues in a timely manner.
• Acts as Country's lead risk manager for franchise level risk issues.
• Produces credit and exposure analyses to monitor risk levels.
• Oversees risk governance at legal vehicle and subsidiaries level.
• Identifies cross sector utilities to deliver risk management synergies.
• Coordinates sharing and vetting of risk concerns and develops coordinated solutions.
• Interacts with Credit Review Function, Internal Audit and regulators during reviews.
• Facilitates responses to regulator inquiries and involves local risk experts as needed.
• Assesses risk in business decisions, upholding firm reputation and compliance with laws and policies.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Governance

Regulatory risk

Risk management lifecycle

Bilingual (Spanish & English)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

The Risk Mgnt Country Officer is a strategic professional who closely follows latest trends in own field and adapts them for application within own job and the business. Typically a small number of people within the business that provide the same level of expertise. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Accountable for significant direct business results or authoritative advice regarding the operations of the business. Necessitates a degree of responsibility over technical strategy. Primarily affects a sub-function. Responsible for handling staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the single point of contact for franchise-level risk matters relating to the businesses operating in the country, and for providing risk management partnership to Citi Country Officers (CEOs/CCOs).
• Represents the interests of Citigroup as a whole. Partnering with the CEOs/CCOs, with focus on risk-management related regulatory matters,
• Responsible for ensuring the timely escalation and resolution of franchise-level risk issues.
• Serves as Country's lead risk manager for franchise level risk issues
• Produce credit and exposure analyses to ensure aggregate risk exposure to customers remains appropriate to credit standing
• Ensures the risk oversight at the legal vehicle and subsidiaries level especially when used by more than a single product group
• Identifies and co-champions cross sector/product utilities to deliver synergies and improve quality of risk mgmt support
• Coordinates identification, sharing and vetting of common risk concerns and sensitivities and develop coordinated solutions as appropriate (e.g. adverse developments in local regulatory and political landscape, deterioration in industry lending practices, etc.)
• Interact directly with Credit Review Function (BICR), Internal Audit and banking regulators during their periodic and ad-hoc reviews.
• Facilitates/coordinates responses to inquiries/requests from regulators
• Ensures involvement of the appropriate local risk experts in vetting and resolving regulatory issues
• 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.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience
• Advanced degree (e.g. JD, MBA) preferred
• Expertise of Compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and typologies
• Excellent written, verbal and analytical skills Must be a self-starter, flexible, innovative and adaptive Highly motivated
• Proven ability to guide decision-making processes and implement technical solutions effectively.
• In-depth conceptual/practical grounding in the function and/or expertise in related subject areas
• Fully Bilingual (Spanish & English)

Education

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Job Family Group

Risk Management

Job Family

Risk Functional Management

Time Type

Full time

Most Relevant Skills

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

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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