VP, Business Risk Officer (Hybrid)

The VP, Business Risk Officer in the Risk Exam & Audit Management team provides an opportunity to develop business knowledge and get exposure to the In Business Credit and Franchise Risk (IBCFR) Businesses including the Branded and CRS Cards Businesses, Retail Bank, Mortgage and Wealth as well as the Franchise Risk functions.  The candidate will participate in all aspects of the Exam and Audit spectrum of work including: working with reviewers on scope and focus, preparing deliverables and meetings, leveraging prior existing information to assist the business, mediating discussions during the review, providing guidance to business SMEs and reviewers and helping to ensure a proper result and conclusion to every review.  Growing an understanding of the various functional areas within those Businesses including Risk Management, Modeling, Marketing, Product Management, Finance, Operations and others is an additional benefit.  Relevance of issues faced across various groups within USPB and other lines of business within Citi and the analysis of common threads of data across all of these entities has made this role evolve into a far-reaching role where solutions to problems need to be innovative and executable while at the same time being sound and controlled.

Key Responsibilities include:

• The role will focus on both internal and external (including regulatory) reviews involving the Risk Management organization including routine and ad-hoc requests from reviewing entities.

• Managing the preparation of deliverables, samples and other data requested for exams or audits of or involving the IBCFR Risk organization

• Determine what level of information is responsive to each request and ensuring the accuracy and consistency of that information and associated message across the IBCFR organization.

• Understanding where similar information may have been requested for previous exams and leveraging that understanding and data to appropriately and efficiently respond to current requests.

• Ensure any data related deliverables have been appropriately checked and reviewed such that no erroneous data elements are shared with reviewers.

• Follow-up and coordination of efforts to address questions and other requests during exams or audits.

• Engage and coordinate with the Business and other groups to address an ongoing stream of questions and requests made by audit teams.

• Liaise with reviewing entities, exploring solutions for most/all of the questions being asked before having to engage the Risk or other business teams.

• Perform analysis and data manipulation using data from the Data Warehouse and other platforms where information can be assembled to address exam, audit, and a variety of other business questions.

• Manage and address ad-hoc exam and audit requests and concerns that impact Risk Management.

• Assist/support and sometimes drive current and changing reporting routines that convey the work and results achieved by the Risk and Exam and Audit teams.

• Coordination, refinement and communication of various detailed as well a high-level presentations that will be shared with a variety of levels of management with varying frequency depending on the forum being presented in and the ongoing needs of the business.

• Work across the Exam and Audit Management team to ensure consistent and ongoing exam coverage.

• Support and explore enhancement/simplification opportunities for the existing structured processes leveraged for ongoing execution of Exam

Management activities including:

• Leveraging best practices used across the organizations and lines of business that Risk interacts with.

• Storing exam related information in a consistent manner such that similar documentation can easily be searched, identified and retrieved.

• Understanding where similar requests have surfaced in previous exams and providing guidance on how such requests should be responded to.

Critical Skill Sets Required:

• Excellent project management and organizational skills are essential.

• Well developed written and verbal communications skills and the ability to leverage those skills to influence, negotiate and mediate with business and audit stakeholders including being able to manage discussions across various LOBs and functional areas and leadership levels to achieve an appropriate outcome.

• Foundational knowledge of the businesses we support including the Brands and CRS cards businesses, Retail Bank, Mortgage and Wealth.

• Advance level Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint skills including the ability to work with macros and Visual Basic in Excel and the ability to independently