Wealth Technology Business Execution Role, Director

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Organizational Context

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients earn by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to and maintain our clients’ and the public’s trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve. Citi is building a purpose-driven team to serve its globally diverse, digitally forward customers in top cities around the world. We’re looking for exceptional candidates who think digitally and differently, resolve problems in unconventional ways and strive to provide a remarkable experience for our clients. We define success by our Citi Leadership Standards: We Take Ownership, We Deliver with Pride, and We Succeed Together.

About Citi Global Wealth

Citi Global Wealth (CGW) is focused on serving the needs of clients across the entire wealth spectrum. It has been created by combining the Wealth Management businesses across Citigold / Citigold Private Client. 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. Citi Global Wealth serves over 500,000 clients across its global footprint in Asia, Europe, Mexico, and North America. It delivers the full range of wealth products across investments, banking, lending, insurance, trust services and financial planning & advice.

Overview of the Role

The financial landscape and growing customer preference to do business in the digital channels has been quickly evolving over the past five years with change on multiple fronts, including evolving client needs, market entry of non-traditional competitors and a shifting landscape of emerging technology providers. This has significantly impacted the way we interact with our clients, the products we create and the strategies we deploy. To compete with fast growing entrants that are non-traditional financial services institutions, we are focused on scaling our digital wealth capabilities and modernizing our overall technology stack and infrastructure.

Reporting into the Citi Technology Business Execution Lead and directly supporting the Citi Global Wealth Technology (CGWT) CIO, the CGWT Business Execution Lead (BEL) is responsible to lead executive-level strategic and operational analysis across the global team, driving consistency in communication, cadence and aligning with the overall technology governance. This position is a critical strategic role that will partner closely with the CGWT Leadership Team as well as the other Business and Technology COO Teams, to define a governance and reporting structure for CGWT, aligned to organizational objectives, and tracked through interactive dashboarding capabilities.

The CGWT BEL is a senior technology leader with deep experience in program management, planning, strategy development and operationalization. This leader has exceptional abilities in analysis, critical thinking, communication and influencing, and has a proven track record of working with global teams, aligning stakeholders and thriving in ambiguous situations. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with not only leading and influencing, but also diving into the details and rolling up her/his/their sleeves.

Responsibilities:

The Wealth Technology BEL Team is responsible for driving the strategic priorities of the Wealth Technology organization within Citigroup. Responsibilities include:

• Establish routines and mechanisms to oversee and govern progress in achieving vision, strategy and simplification goals; inclusive of clearly defined metrics and milestones.

• Partner with global stakeholders to define targets, operationalize systems and own all metrics and insights for Wealth Technology, including analysis, reporting, actionable insights and broadcasting key operating metrics across the organization.

• Oversee a team of analysts and strategists who dive deep into the business and technology needs across each major domain, to support governance, metric definition and dashboarding.

• Ensure a cohesive, integrated, and consistent approach (format, content, cadence) to report progres