VP – ICM Controls
Citigroup
- Tampa, FL
- $103,920-155,880 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Support ICM’s Underwriting organization in risk, control, and reporting responsibilities.
- Establish sustainable controls and monitoring methodologies to ensure process quality and effectiveness of controls.
- Ensure that any new controls are included in the respective teams’ frameworks, and that relevant dependencies are setup.
- Produce, enhance, and automate, as required, reporting tools and Management Information materials for senior management.
- Collaborate with first- and second-line teams, as well as Operations & Technology (O&T), to investigate and resolve control issues.
- Develop and maintain relationships across the Underwriting organization and Lines of Defense to better understand and deliver a robust risk and control framework.
- Educate and provide guidance to business leaders and process owners on required Operational Risk Management (ORM) policy adherence and contributing to the end-to-end development of controls and monitoring to ensure they are designed appropriately to mitigate the risks identified.
- Active leadership and engagement during the scoring of inherent risk, and the performance of control and monitoring design assessments to ensure identified risks are well understood and addressed.
- Actively collaborate with the Underwriting organization to identify, evaluate, and manage risks and controls arising from changes in regulations or internal policies, or from business-led changes.
- Engage with Underwriting teams to understand any concerns regarding execution of the control environment and /or other applicable emerging concerns.
- Ensure procedures, process notes, and other documentation are up-to-date and applied adequately.
- Lead or participate in multiple and concurrent enhancement / transformation initiatives to remediate any identified gaps.
- Engage in additional work streams as required.
- Acquire in-depth and end-to-end knowledge of ICM’s Underwriting activities and associated controls.
- Work with people from different functions, countries, and diverse backgrounds.
- Gain exposure to senior stakeholders within the Bank.
- Contribute meaningfully to a growing business function.
- Build leadership skills required for potential future line management roles.
- At least 7 years’ experience in the risk and controls domain.
- Proven experience in independently handling enhancement projects and interacting with teams across multiple lines of defense.
- Excellent problem-solving skills: ability to see the big picture with high attention to critical details.
- Ability to critically interpret regulations / policies / standards and convert them into logical procedures and control documents.
- Experience focusing on wholesale lending products preferred.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Developed interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively and with people at all levels of the organization and across different geographic locations.
- A proactive and “no surprises” approach in communicating issues.
- Range of experience demonstrating flexibility in skillset and approach.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.