Finance AI and Data Business Analyst - Assistant Vice President

Citigroup; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Citigroup is seeking a Technology Product Management Analyst within Finance Technology to define product strategy, engage with business and technology stakeholders, and drive AI, integration, and automation initiatives. The role emphasizes data-driven transformation, process redesign, and cross-functional collaboration across Finance, Risk and Controllers.

The candidate will own the product vision, develop business cases, map processes, and guide change management while ensuring regulatory

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Finance processes and data flows including record to report, reconciliation and regulatory reporting.
• Solid knowledge of AI/ML concepts and their practical applications in finance workflows.
• Ability to assess where AI adds value vs traditional automation for cost-effective solutions.
• Data analysis skills including SQL; Python is a plus.
• Process mapping and problem structuring to break down complex workflows.
• Translate ambiguous problems into structured AI opportunities with defined data inputs.
• Stakeholder engagement with senior Finance stakeholders to identify root causes.
• Experience with automation and AI-led transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Understand requirements through partnership with business users and stakeholders.
• Own backlog and roadmap, define vision and direction for the product offering.
• Map data lineage and develop conceptual/logical data models.
• Collaborate with teams to unify data concepts across Citi finance applications.
• Assess risk and ensure compliance and ethical conduct in deliveries.
• Analyze user needs and identify gaps to optimize capabilities and UX.
• Coordinate planning, prioritization and removal of blockers to enable delivery.
• Lead UAT testing with technology and business users.
• Document business requirements with appropriate level of detail.

Skills

Finance domain knowledge

AI/ML concepts

Data analysis

SQL

Python

Process mapping

Stakeholder engagement

Automation projects

Job description

Job Overview

Finance Technology catalyst for technology and process transformation, enabling Finance teams to replace manual, non-compliant workflows with scalable, automated, and simplified systems across the bank.

Driving Innovation, efficiency and scalability through automation and Integration, these solutions enable Citi to comply with regulatory mandates and empower our businesses to achieve their goals, both current and long-term.

As part of Finance technology, our products and initiatives adhere to Citi's strategic architecture principles and support the end-to-end integration of multiple global functions within the bank including Finance, Risk, and Controllers.

About the Role

The Technology Product Management Analyst is a strategic professional who owns defining our overarching product strategy, spearheading business engagement and transformation and contributing to directional strategy for AI, integration and automation capabilities.

Key responsibility will be defining Product vision, strategy and roadmap, develop solution proposals, business cases, solution design and tactics in engagement with Business and Technology stakeholders.

This role will be responsible for leading business process redesign, map existing and to-be processes for operational optimization, digital transformation initiative and change management.

With Data at the heart of everything we do, this role will require strong data analytical skills, tracing lineage of data, and developing conceptual and logical data models.

The role is expected to drive c ross-functional collaboration and effective communication with business and technology partners, to guide, influence and convince others and lay the direction for Product development.

Responsibilities

• Understand requirements through partnership with business users, cross functional teams, and stakeholders.
• Ownership of the requirement backlog and roadmap, strategy, outlining the vision and direction for the product offering over time, to ensure users derive the most value possible from the product.
• Perform analysis and mapping to trace lineage of data and develop conceptual and logical data models.
• Collaborate with various teams and application owners to unify data concepts across finance applications across Citi.
• Appropriately assess risk and impact when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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.
• Understand and anticipate user needs. Analyze gaps in capabilities, opportunities for optimization and efficiency and enhancing user experience, remediating risk, and control gaps.
• Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of information in complicated and unique situations , where development of an approach/taking of an action involves weighing various alternatives and balancing potentially conflicting situations using multiple sources of information.
• Report control issues with transparency and take accountability of deliveries.
• Develop plans and execute functional strategies, requiring coordination and integration across units.
• Help the team prioritize, negotiate, and remove obstacles to achieve business results, and assist in identifying and removing product development blockers.
• Coordinate UAT testing with technology and business users.
• Conduct data analysis to document business requirements at the right level.

Must-have skills

• 1.Strong understanding of Finance processes and data flows, record to report, Accounting, reconciliation, regulatory reporting and close process, with ability to interpret financial data. Familiarity with Financial products and asset classes, with an appreciation of how transactions flow from source product systems to financial reporting.
• 2.Strong working knowledge of AI/ML concepts and their practical applications in business processes across financial services.
• 3.Ability to critically assess where AI adds value vs, where traditional rule-based automaton / process improvements are more effective ensuring pragmatic and cost-efficient solutions.
• 4.Data analysis, basic, SQL, Python will be added advantage.
• 5.Process mapping and problem structuring, breaking down complex workflows into components.
• 6.Proven ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured AI opportunities, including defining problem statements, required data inputs and expected outcomes.
• 7.Stakeholder and consulting skills to engage with senior Finance stakeholders , ask right questions and challenge current ways of working to identify root-cause of problems.
• 8.Experience with Automation and AI-led transformation projects.

Qualifications

• 1. Techno-functional profile with hands-on experience building tech products that solve rea