Data Regulatory Project Execution Lead - SVP

Citigroup Inc.; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 145,000 - 218,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial institution is seeking a Data Regulatory Project Execution Lead in Mississauga. This senior role involves managing complex remediation efforts, validating regulatory concerns, and ensuring quality control. Candidates should have over 12 years of experience in technology risk and control, a strong ability to communicate effectively, and the skills to influence stakeholders. A Bachelor's degree is required, and a Master's is preferred. The position is full-time, with a salary range of $145,100 - $217,700.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in technology risk and control or internal audit.
• Ability to evaluate corrective actions and root causes.
• Proven ability to manage concurrent assignments under deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Independently perform reviews on Business Automated controls.
• Advise stakeholders on remediation strategies.
• Support documentation and quality control reviews.

Skills

Technology risk and control

Internal audit

Communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

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.

This role is for an individual contributor part of a global risk and controls professions with Technology risks and control understanding specifically 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.

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, specifically 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 stakeholders 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.

Job Family Group: Technology

Job Family: Technology Project Management

Time Type: Full time

Primary Location Full Time Salary Range: $145,100.00 - $217,700.00

Most Relevant Skills: Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills: For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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