Loan IQ Accounting Business Analysis Lead - SVP

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

Role:

The Loan IQ Accounting Business Analyst lead is responsible for liaising between business users and technologists to exchange information in a concise, logical and understandable way in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.

Citi is executing a multi-year technology initiative to upgrade our core accounting and servicing application for its Agency, Non-Agency and Bi-lateral Lending businesses globally to support growth and strategic objectives. The technology stack transformation includes migrating to the Loan IQ platform and exiting current product processors supporting the businesses. This role requires a have deep industry knowledge in the core application accounting processes and configuration capabilities of the Loan IQ platform, while also considering the needs of Citi businesses.

He/she will have effective communication and diplomacy skills to influence internal partners to deploy the most effective solutions. Ability to focus on details while achieving higher level objectives is critical to the success of this role. The resource will take a lead role in driving execution across Loan IQ production support, enhancements, analysis, configuration, migration, and testing efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Lead integration of Loan IQ Finance and Treasury functions with understanding of client core business functions and partner with multiple senior management teams to meet goals and deploy new products and process enhancements

• Solve the highest-impact, highest-profile problems with significant business impact through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes and industry standards

• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders (across functions) and communicate with external parties as needed

• Contribute to technical direction and strategic decisions as a technical expert in all development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions

• Conduct management activities, including resource management, work allocation, mentoring/coaching and other duties and functions as assigned

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular 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

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience with Loan IQ platform expertise, and a strong background in Loan IQ accounting functionality.