Controls Automation & SAS Development– Assistant Vice President

Citibank (Switzerland) AG; Mumbai; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Citi is seeking a Product Development Specialist in Mumbai to drive end-to-end development of new products and features guided by market and client insights.

You will define business cases, requirements, and roadmaps, collaborating with Sales, Technology, and senior stakeholders to ensure timely, compliant delivery across product lines.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in operational risk management and compliance within financial services.
• Minimum 3+ years in SAS development.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Experience in end-to-end product development and cross-functional delivery.
• Proficient in data analytics tools (QlikView, Tableau, Access).

Responsibilities

• Develop new products and features based on market and client needs.
• Define requirements, business cases, and roadmaps for product releases.
• Collaborate with Sales, Technology, and senior stakeholders to deliver objectives.
• Ensure quality, governance, and regulatory compliance in product delivery.

Skills

Operational risk management

Compliance

Analytics

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SAS

QlikView

Tableau

Access

Job description

Job Overview

The Product Development Specialist is a seasoned professional role. Applies in-depth disciplinary knowledge, contributing to the development of new techniques and the improvement of processes and work-flow for the area or function. Integrates subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area. Requires in-depth understanding of how areas collectively integrate within the sub-function as well as coordinate and contribute to the objectives of the function and overall business. Evaluates moderately complex and variable issues with substantial potential impact, where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations using multiple sources of information. Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources. Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required. Regularly assumes informal/formal leadership role within teams. Involved in coaching and training of new recruits. Significant impact in terms of project size, geography, etc. by influencing decisions through advice, counsel and/or facilitating services to others in area of specialization. Work and performance of all teams in the area are directly affected by the performance of the individual.

Responsibilities

The Product Development Specialist is a developing professional role that responsible for activities related to the development of new products and/or features and functionality of products including developing business cases, requirements definition (BRDs), product enhancements innovation, feature and functionality definition based on market and industry research and trends and client needs This role executes on the end-to-end product development lifecycle and will also scope product releases, agreeing to and tracking business priorities, incorporating regulatory and compliance requirements and investment tracking Identifies, gathers, and organizes client insights, internal innovation ideas, marketplace analyses and trends to drive to new concepts Creates a product vision aligned to business priorities and corresponding road-map to delivery Follows market, industry and client trends to own field and adapts them for application Citi’s products and solutions platforms Conceptualizes, plans, prioritizes, coordinates design and delivery of products or features to product release, and serves as product ambassador within user community Ensures product delivery is provided in a consistent, professional and high quality level planned and coordinated with unit Manager Works in close co-ordination with Sales, Technology, Business Managers and senior stakeholders to fulfill the delivery objectives Manages and implements a wide variety of products and solutions Identifies solutions ranging across data analytics, reporting, CRM, Trade Workflows and trade processing Has responsibility to deliver direct business results and advice regarding product development that necessitates a degree of responsibility over technical strategy Interacts with other units to resolve product issues or to support them on inquires when product expertise and guidance is required Partners with business leaders and a widely distributed global user community to define and implement solutions Creates project plans, business and technical requirements documents for product execution Works in close co-ordination with Technology, Business Managers and other stakeholders to fulfill the delivery objectives Focuses on controls and governance, including performing Need-to-Know based security and access reviews, Access Approvals, controls testing and documentation 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

• 8+ years of experience in operational risk management, compliance and other control related functions in the financial services industries
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in SAS development
• Intellectual curiosity, analytical, and conceptual thinker
• Proactively seeks and develops new opportunities
• Detail oriented
• Ability to build networks and relationships internally and externally
• Familiarity with product development methodologies
• Direct experience in end-to-end project delivery, preferably in product development, and knowledge of various analytical tools including Qlikview, Tableau, Access
• Comfortable with performing data investigations that require a high degree of accuracy with tight timescales
• Ability to create business analysis, troubleshoot data quality issues, and conduct exploratory and descriptive analysis of business datasets
• Ability to structure and break down problems, develop solutions, and to drive to results
• Process Management knowledge with a propensity for detail and comprehensiveness of content
• Ability to collaborate and clearly communicate with team members of an organization
• Project Management skills with experience leading large cross functional initiatives
• Generation of reports and presentations for management

Education

Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience

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

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