Head of Business Risk - Investment Solutions - C16 - New York, NY

Citi’s Wealth business serves the needs of clients across the entire wealth spectrum. It has been created by combining the Wealth Management businesses across Citi Global Consumer Bank and Citi Private Bank.  It serves over 500,000 clients through its global footprint in Asia, EMEA, Mexico, and North America. 

Wealth delivers a wide range of products and services covering capital markets, managed investments, portfolio management, trust and estate planning, investment finance and banking.  By building on the strengths and capabilities across Citi, we intend to transform the way we serve clients across the wealth spectrum, delivering the full range of high tech and high touch capabilities Citi can offer, and ultimately help them achieve their goals.

The Head of Investments Business Risk will be responsible for managing a holistic and integrated approach to Business risks across the Investments team.  This senior executive will help ensure continuous improvement mindset and high levels of operating risk discipline including risk planning, operating routines, and broadly the identification of risks, assessing risks, and designing effective mitigation plans.  This role will work closely with the Investments Solutions business leads as well as be a key leader interacting with operating partners across the organization.  This role will report to the Head of Investment Solutions within Citi Wealth

Key Accountabilities

• Senior business leader who will help lead and coordinate an integrated approach to manage, coordinate, measure and mitigate operating risks across the Investments businesses.
• Actively engaged in industry activities and trends including regulatory focus areas to help ensure business in proactively engaged.
• Design/evaluate/implement business routines ensure proactive assessment, discussion and action aligned with operating routines.
• Partner with risk and control professionals to ensure governance routines are effective and aligned with all aspects of risk and strategy.
• Supporting the Investments Leadership team and their specific organizations with assessment of operational, compliance and reputational risks and the design of effective controls to support business growth and expansion agenda. 
• Lead quantitative and qualitative assessments of significance and likelihood of risks in key global investment processes around client suitability, transaction related controls and compliance with policies and applicable global/ local regulations. 
• Take an end-to-end view to drive greater integration and simplification and automation of controls to accelerate the path to scale across Investment Solutions globally.
• Effectively partner with appropriate stakeholders to strengthen their ability to make data driven impactful decisions, policy / process improvements, and structure and operationalize controls.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve risk management effectiveness and client experience, while identifying and developing plans to mitigate emerging risks and issues.
• Support the harmonization, enhancement, and greater integration of Wealth policies, standards, procedures, leading appropriate levels of alignment across client segments/ product/ regions.
• Develop and drive credible plans to identify root causes and remediate issues/ regulatory findings, working with cross functional leaders across Wealth.
• Support enhancements to the Material Risk Inventory process for operational, compliance and reputational risks, also guiding the development of non-financial stress testing scenarios.
• Enable the redesign of Investment Solutions Controls toward shared capabilities teams.
• Attract and retain top talent, building a strongly engaged team.
• Lead significant Investment control related regulatory interactions globally, including items related to Citi regulatory commitments with Investment Solutions impact.
• Drive robust data driven process to proactively prepare for on internal audit, risk / compliance reviews and regulatory exams in Investment Solutions, as needed. 
• Significant Leadership Team interactions and Governance Committee presentations.
• Foster effective partnerships with internal Control Functions and external constituencies, including regulators, community and advocacy groups, and industry/trade associations.
• Maintain processes for appropriate management and escalation of issues

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required. Relevant advanced qualifications (e.g., MBA, CFA) preferred.
• 20+ years of leadership experience in large global financial firms.
• Deep global risk assessment and mitigation leadership experience across financial services
• Core understanding of US regulations including (ex:SRO/ FINRA requir