SVP, Reporting System Project Manager (Hybrid)

Job Description:

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 Reporting System Project Manager will be part of the overall Reporting Initiative and will partner with FRSS Operations, Technology, reporting teams, and other key stakeholders to lead various Regulatory and Management Reporting Initiatives with implementing more centralized, standardized and automated solutions in addition to retiring legacy processes. 

The Reporting System Project Manager will support the Reporting Infrastructure (systems/technology) Lead by ensuring that Reporting Infrastructure projects and underlying milestones are executed and closed in an efficient, effective, and controlled manner.  The PM will manage the delivery of multiple workstreams, the associated milestones, deliverables and technology projects, their status reporting, resource coordination, project planning & dependency management in conjunction with the workstream technology teams.  The role holder will be expected to provide both strategic and operational thought leadership over Reporting Transformation with the ability to lead and influence a wide number of stakeholders across virtual and matrix teams.

Responsibilities

• Day to day management of delivery and execution of multiple complex projects with a large amount of independence  

• 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

• Lead 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 project scope definition meets business objectives

• Work with Reporting Transformation and Technology leads to ensure business case/cost benefit analysis is in line with business goals  

• Drive adherence to project processes, procedures, methods, and standards 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

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

Qualifications

• 10+ 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

• 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-functi