IT Business Sr Analyst/SAS Programmer

Job Description

Overview of the Role

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.

The IT Business Senior Analyst/SAS programmer is an intermediate-level position responsible for intake of functional requirements from business and IT users and develop reports/processes using SAS to deliver these requirements.   He/she will also act liaison 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 deliver reports and processes required for conversion/onboarding, deconversion and remediation activities as well as for maintenance/BAU activities.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure that requirements received from business and IT users are complete and accurate and convert these into technical requirements.
• Develop SAS programs/codes as well as Unix scripts and/or Mainframe JCLs to implement requirements received from business.
• Coordinate/collaborate with project teams to develop technical requirements for projects including conversion/onboarding and deconversion.
• Provide programming support for the delivery of information and reports for remediation activities as well as maintenance/BAU activities.
• Ensure that the team’s information/data transfers with both internal and external customers follow the company’s information/data security guidelines.
• Identify and communicate risks and impacts, considering business implications of the application of technology to processes being developed/implemented.
• Act as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts and work as a team to achieve business objectives, performing other duties and functions as assigned
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to business users as well as other IT users.
• 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:

• 5 years of SAS programming experience preferably in the financial industry
• Intermediate working knowledge of SAS, Unix Scripts, Mainframe JCLs, Network Data Mover (NDM)
• Experience in data analysis with intermediate/advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills
• Proven interpersonal, data analysis, diplomatic, management and prioritization skills
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Proven ability to manage multiple activities and build/develop working relationships
• Proven self-motivation to take initiative and master new tasks quick