VP, Report Onboarding Project Manager (Hybrid)

The Finance Controllers Transformation organization is looking for a dynamic individual to help shape the future of the Finance organization, leading Finance’s efforts to provide accurate information of the highest quality to our customers, shareholders and regulators.  The Controllers Transformation processes are comprised of those sets of activities that begin with defining and establishing appropriate data standards and ensuring readiness for consumers, standardizing the accounting and processing of transactions to financial systems, implementing a comprehensive set of integrated financial closing processes, which then culminates with instituting common and optimized financial / regulatory / management reporting processes. 

This opportunity is part of the Reporting Transformation initiative within Controllers. The Reporting Transformation Initiative has been established under the wider Citi Finance Transformation and comprises four pillars – Data, Process, Infrastructure, and Governance. The program includes standardizing and reducing risk across current reporting processes and establishing the next iteration of strategy to adopt and implement global processes and infrastructure. The Report Onboarding Project Manager will be part of the overall Reporting Initiative and will partner with FRSS Operations, Technology, reporting teams, and other key stakeholders to plan and execute onboarding of new and existing regulatory reports to target state infrastructure and processes.

The Report Onboarding Project Manager will support the Reporting Onboarding Lead by ensuring that Report Onboarding projects and underlying milestones are executed and closed in an efficient, effective, and controlled manner.  The PM will manage the delivery of multiple milestones, deliverables and technology projects, their status reporting, resource coordination, project planning & dependency management in conjunction with the workstream teams.  The role holder will be expected to develop an in-depth knowledge of target state infrastructure, processes and controls and influence a wide number of stakeholders across virtual and matrix teams.

Responsibilities

• Day to day management of delivery and execution of multiple report onboarding projects.

• Develops and exercises project plans, policies and procedures and may also be responsible for various projects to improve efficiencies.

• Identify stakeholders and key organizations, building and managing relationships with each.  

• Manage the identification and drive resolution of issues which impact project delivery; direct the communication of status, issue, and risk disposition to all stakeholders, including senior management, on a timely basis.  

• Work with stakeholders to ensure report onboarding scope definition meets business objectives.  

• Drive adherence to report onboarding playbooks for project delivery and leverage across the project.  

• Proactively develop and maintain materials that are conducive to initiative, project and workstream meeting agendas, encouraging collaboration, risk/issue resolution and progress towards closure.

• Manage milestone/deliverable closure activities in conjunction with Milestone Owner, workstream leads, business/tech stakeholders and Internal Audit.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Program/Project Management

• Previous work experience as a Project Manager of technology implementations within banking and regulatory environment is considered a strong asset for this role 

• Strong knowledge of financial systems/infrastructure and data standards/concepts is required

• Knowledge of regulatory, management, and/or financial reporting at a global bank strongly preferred but not required

• Track record of success in delivering high quality work in a fast paced and dynamic environment within a heavily matrixed organization

• Prior work experience in enterprise-wide transformation/organizational change initiatives

• Self-starter with the ability to multitask and prioritize.

• Excellent analytical skills to proactively identify trends and issues, diagnose root cause, draw conclusions, and drive to resolution

• Ability to support cross-functional projects and teams with varied disciplines.

• Strong communication (written, verbal and interpersonal) skills, including tact, diplomacy, and ability to influence senior executives

• Background in SAFe, LeSS and other scaled agile frameworks; certifications such as Scrum master, SPC, LeSS, ICAgile Coaching are preferred but not required