Infrastructure Project Manager – C12 AVP TAMPA

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 Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure 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.

Specific Responsibilities

Rule Rationalization PM

• Manage overall Regulatory Rule Rationalization plan, including
  • Coordinate and Collate updates, risks, etc. on Program Plan Milestones, Deliverables and Activities from Various Stakeholders
  • Coordinate/Communicate with Deloitte on Milestone updates, Risks, etc.
  • Ensure that Project Activities are on track and raise possible Risks
• Ensure Audit Readiness of all Project Artifacts
• Efficient tracking of all Program-level Risks and Work with the Program Implementation Lead and various Stakeholders to coordinate and ensure closure of all Program-related Risks
• Collation and creation of Program-related documents for Stakeholder/ Senior Management Reporting

FR Y-15 Infrastructure PM

• Create and manage detailed Project Plan which covers Build, Testing, and Production Release for FR Y-15 Implementation
  • Ensure Build, Testing and Production Release dates aligns with the overall FR Y-15 Program Plan
  • Coordinate and Collate updates, risks, etc. on Project Plan Milestones, Deliverables and Activities from Various Stakeholders
  • Coordinate/Communicate with Y15 Program PMO on Milestone updates, Risks, etc.
  • Ensure that Project Activities are on track and raise possible Risks
  • Coordinate with Pillar Leads/ Product Owner (POs) and ensure evidence and artifacts (JIRAs, Test Cases, UAT Test Evidence) are aligned with technology capabilities and features
• Efficient tracking of all Risks and Work with the Program PMO, Pillar Leads, Product Owners, Technology and other Stakeholders to coordinate and ensure closure of all Program-related Risks
• Collation and creation of Program-related documents for Stakeholder/ Senior Management Reporting

Qualifications

• 5+ 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 but not required
• Track record of success in delivering high quality work in a fast paced and dynamic environment within a heavily matrixed organization