Data Regulatory Project Execution Lead - SVP

CITI; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution is seeking a Data Regulatory Project Execution Lead in Mississauga to manage complex remediation efforts. The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience in technology risk and control, with strong skills in regulatory compliance and stakeholder management. This role involves validating regulatory concerns, supporting documentation reviews, and ensuring the effective management of risk across projects. If you are a strategic thinker with a keen eye for detail, consider joining this prestigious organization.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in technology risk and control or internal audit.
• Ability to evaluate the effectiveness of corrective actions.
• Proven ability to deliver high quality work within strict deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex remediation committed to regulators.
• Perform reviews on design and effectiveness of controls.
• Support development, build effective teams and manage budgets.

Skills

Technology risk assessment

Regulatory compliance

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Overview

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients. Citi's Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients' and the public's trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.

Role

This role is for an individual contributor within global risk and controls professions with Technology risks and control understanding to independently assess business automated and IT General control testing to ensure Citi successfully address Consent Order programs and related Regulatory Business Critical Milestones (RBCM) and demonstrate strong risk and controls principles.

Position

Data Regulatory Project Execution Lead is a senior position responsible for managing complex and critical remediation committed to the regulators. The overall objective of this role is to validate how regulatory concerns get remediated to deliver sustainable solutions, produce comprehensive documentation to evidence how concerns reported by the regulators are remediated sustainably to drive a positive change or reduce risk.

The documentation will be subject to Quality Control review, IA testing and review by the regulators. This individual will support the Regulatory Execution team in their interaction with the various stakeholders (business, functions, technology, data), Quality Control, and Internal Audit teams to ensure timely completion of quality review deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• RBCM Validation:
  • Independently perform reviews on the design and operating effectiveness testing of Business Automated controls and IT General controls around:
  • • System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) or change management process
    • New Application functionality enhancement process
    • System Decommissioning process
• Support professional development, build effective teams and manage a budget
• Pro-actively advise stakeholder on the approach to remediate concerns successfully
• Identify solutions for a variety of complex and unique control issues, utilizing complex judgement and sophisticated analytical thought
• Timely escalation of delays or potential unsuccessful validations
• Ensuring appropriate documentation and change management over newly implemented processes and controls.
• Collecting and validating risk reduction metrics

• Internal Audit/QC Interaction:
  • Performing/supporting documentation review prior to sending to QC and IA
  • Partner with various quality control (QC) and transformation teams for review and check & challenge reviews
  • Lead discussions with IA to manage expectations and pre-review closure material for successful closure.
  • Ensuring any issues raised by QC/IA are resolved and cleared prior to RBCM due date.
  • Hosting ongoing calls with QC/IA to manage expectations and pre-review closure material for successful closure.
  • Lead in committee & process administration, including gathering updates and creating meeting decks, monitoring risks, issues, and escalations

• General:
  • Supports planning, directing and coordination of day-to-day activities.
  • Identify and support stakeholders as governance and/or process subject-matter-expert.
  • Support implementation of common standards, procedures, and governance processes to create and maintain consistent and best in class quality review protocols.
  • Demonstrated ability to implement continuous improvement and innovation in validation process.
  • Support other members of the team.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in a related role within technology risk and control or internal audit
• Ability to evaluate effectiveness of corrective action to address root causes
• Proven ability to work concurrent assignments and deliver high quality work within strict deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to implement continuous improvement and innovation in audit tools and techniques
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Ability to build strong relationships at various levels.
• Effective skills to influence & negotiate.

Education

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• 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.

Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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