Financial Solutions Lead Analyst

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Citibank serves as a trusted advisor to our retail, mortgage, small business and wealth management clients at every stage of their financial journey.  Through Citi's Access Account, Basic Banking, Citi Priority, Citigold and Citigold Private Client, we offer an array of products, services and digital capabilities to clients across the full spectrum of consumer banking needs worldwide.

We're currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as Vice President, Finance Solutions Lead Analyst, - Hybrid (Internal Job Title: Finance Solutions Lead Analyst, C13) based in Citi Plaza, Taguig City, Philippines.  Being part of our team means that we'll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future.  For instance:

• Citi provides programs and services for your physical and mental well-being including access to telehealth options, health advocates, confidential counseling and more. Coverage varies by country.
• We believe all parents deserve time to adjust to parenthood and bond with the newest members of their families. That's why in early 2020 we began rolling out our expanded Paid Parental Leave Policy to include Citi employees around the world.
• We empower our employees to manage their financial well-being and help them plan for the future.
• Citi provides access to an array of learning and development resources to help broaden and deepen your skills and knowledge as your career progresses.
• We have a variety of programs that help employees balance their work and life, including generous paid time off packages.
• We offer our employees resources and tools to volunteer in the communities in which they live and work. In 2019, Citi employee volunteers contributed more than 1 million volunteer hours around the world.

The Business Architecture & Transformation Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within their own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering the application thereof in their own duties. The applicant will support firmwide financial, capital, and risk reporting efforts focused on the measurement and management of capital adequacy, financial projections, and interest rate risk on Citi's proprietary forecasting platform, RUBY. The analyst will serve as a recognized technical and operational authority for the business on all aspects of user interaction in the various monthly and quarterly production processes. Strong subject matter familiarity with Financial Forecasting and Interest Rate risk is required. This includes discounted cashflow analysis, EVE, EVS, IRE, market interest rate indexes and shocking methodologies thereof.

Additional subject matter familiarity with general financial planning and risk concepts is also desired in the following fields: transfer pricing, balance sheet management, intercompany transactions, and overall financial planning paradigms. Much of this work will require a high level of comfort with data analysis in SQL and eventually, Python based tools.

The candidate should have developed communication and diplomacy skills are required to guide, influence, and convince subject matter experts or risk managers. This includes those who do not have the same level of technical, operational, or platform insight. The analyst will be expected to work with technology partners to drive the reduction of manual operational processes, find efficiencies and scope for automation, as well as establish rigorous controls where needed. The analyst will provide advice and counsel related to the technology and operations of the business as part of ongoing development priorities and as Citi continues to develop its forecasting architecture.

In this role, you're expected to:

• Assists in the monthly Interest Rate Risk and quarterly PPNR production cycles
• Works to closely coordinate activities across workstreams on the RUBY platform including Interest Rate Risk, Stress Testing, and Financial Planning
• Provides SMEs with a trusted operational resource to investigate potential issues and test upcoming developments; uses data analysis and critical thinking to investigate problems, propose root causes, and work with technology partners to implement a solution
• Works closely with technology partners to scope, resource, and develop new platform functionalities and refine existing calculation methodologies
• Creates and maintains documented processes and procedure for purposes of user training and auditability of monthly processes
• Becomes a trusted resource for FP&A, Capital Planning, Treasury and Risk partners to liaise with on critical regulatory deliverables
• Ability to deliver multiple, high priority deliverables and work closely with a variety of highly time sensitive consumers
• Works to develop, train, and motivate junior staff

As a successful candidate, you'd ideally have the following skills and exposure:

• 6 - 10 years of relevant experience, within the financial services industry preferred
• Strong knowledge of interest risk related concepts such as duration, convexity, IRE, EVE, and discounted cash flow valuation
• Strong knowledge of market interest rate indexes and impact to banking balance sheet
• High degree of comfort with data analysis tasks using SQL database tools
• Developed communication skills; ability to present complex fact patterns to seniors using clear and concise language
• Developed understanding of balance sheet management and financial planning essentials: intercompany transactions, transfer pricing, equity credits, financial forecasting
• Basic familiarity with econometric modeling
• Basic familiarity with Python or other programming languages desired

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a family of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

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Finance

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Fin Solutions Dsgn & Implement

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Most Relevant Skills

Assessment, Change Management, Communication, Credible Challenge, Management Reporting, Problem Solving, Program Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Planning.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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