Technology Product Management Senior Analyst - Assistant Vice President

Citigroup; Pune District; Sur place; INR 1 200 000 - 1 800 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Citigroup in Pune, India seeks a Technology Product Management Analyst to define the product strategy for AI-driven automation across Finance functions. You will lead business engagement, map processes, and shape the data models to enable scalable, compliant transformations.

You will work with business and technology partners to drive cross-functional collaborations, manage the requirements backlog, and ensure delivery of value through data-centric product development.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of finance processes, data flows, and regulatory reporting requirements.
• Solid knowledge of AI/ML concepts and their business applications.
• Ability to assess where AI adds value versus traditional automation.
• Proficient data analysis skills; SQL and Python are an advantage.
• Experience in process mapping and structuring complex workflows.
• Ability to translate vague business problems into AI opportunities with clear data needs.
• Excellent stakeholder management with finance executives.
• Experience with automation and AI-driven transformation projects.

Responsabilités

• Understand requirements through partnership with business users and stakeholders.
• Own backlog, roadmap, and vision for the product offering over time.
• Trace data lineage and develop conceptual/logical data models.
• Collaborate with application teams to unify data concepts across Citi finance apps.
• Assess risk and ensure compliance with laws, policies and controls.
• Identify gaps in capability and opportunities for optimization.
• Provide judgment based on analysis of complex situations.
• Coordinate UAT testing with tech and business users.
• Document business requirements and translate into specs.

Connaissances

Finance data flows

AI/ML concepts

AI value assessment

SQL

Python

Process mapping

Problem structuring

Stakeholder engagement

Description du poste

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