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Citi is hiring a Business Analysis Group Manager

Summary

The Financial Analyst position reports to the Senior Director, Financial Operations and supports both the Directors of Financial Management and Portfolio Management as part of the Financial Oper

Citi’s PBWM Technology (PBWMT) organization serves the PBWM global suite of products providing a full range of innovative and comprehensive set of services. Our businesses also offer industry-leading advanced technology, a strong worldwide presence, and a powerful global franchise.

The Business Analysis Group Manager is a senior management-level position responsible for liaising 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 contribute to continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive business planning.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple teams of business analysts supporting multiple systems or over a business analysis functional area (depending on size of business) with responsibilities including work allocation, budget and planning, performance evaluation, compensation, staffing and other duties as assigned
• Provide technical leadership and expertise to ensure the efficient design, development and implementation and to ensure essential procedures are followed
• Develop strategy and guidelines for appropriate staffing requirements, exercising control over resources, budget management and planning and contributing to defining standards
• Resolve issues that have impact beyond own area and apply in-depth understanding of business analysis concepts and procedures and basic knowledge of other areas
• Work as a team to achieve objectives and influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, communicating with external parties as needed
• Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of information in complicated, unique and dynamic situations, drawing on diverse range of internal and external sources
• 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated leadership
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Proven interpersonal skills with ability to partner and influence across organizational lines
• Proven ability of using complex analytical, interpretive and problem-solving techniques

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

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Job Family Group: Technology

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Job Family: Business Analysis / Client Services

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Time Type: Full time

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Primary Location Salary Range: $126,510.00 – $189,760.00

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ations team. This position provides financial support to Global Business Services and Enabling Functions (GBS/EF) Digital by ensuring that annual ongoing and one-time operating expense and project portfolio cost targets are achieved, costs adhere to financial policies and reporting commitments are met to Finance and other recipients of financial information.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in the overall development of the annual operating expense budget and quarterly forecast submissions to Finance
• Manage one-time and ongoing operating expenses and project costs to established targets
• Ensure that costs are realized in the correct location according to cost accounting policies
• Manage inbound technology chargebacks from other Digital areas related to the infrastructure portfolio
• Update master data for all assets listed in the Fixed Asset Register
• Maintain the cost center hierarchy and WBS elements associated with operating expenses
• Assist in the close-out process for completed projects
• Address expiring purchase orders and ensure timely closure
• Utilize business intelligence tools to improve financial decision making

Operating Expense

• Provide financial support to help teams understand costs incurred and manage annual operating expenses to established financial targets
• Assist with development of monthly variance analysis reporting and root cause analysis
• Maintain the global cost center hierarchy
• Manage WBS elements to track like costs

Project Portfolio

• Provide financial support to help teams understand costs incurred and manage annual project portfolio costs to established financial targets
• Assist with development of monthly variance analysis reporting and root cause analysis
• Assist with managing WBS elements through the life of a project
• Assist in the process to formally close out projects upon completion

Infrastructure Portfolio

• Monitor accuracy of all inbound reclasses received from other Digital areas for funded infrastructure costs related to physical hardware (servers, storage, memory), virtual hosting (Amazon Web Services), mid-tier technologies (requests for changes, database services, web services, file transfer interfaces), virtual desktops, agile development tools, etc.
• Charge costs to projects during the development cycle and to operations during the support cycle
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Team to improve the transparency and accuracy of infrastructure charges through continuous improvement initiatives
• Mine infrastructure data to drive cost savings through

Other

• Maintain fixed asset master data through the asset life cycle (development, activation, disposal)
• Manage the monthly procure-to-pay automations related to open purchase orders and expiring purchase orders

Data Analytics

• Utilize business intelligence tools (Tableau) to conduct ad hoc analyses of financial data to provide insight into cost details, trends and potential cost savings opportunities
• Develop dashboards in Tableau to improve the visualization of financial data
• Identify and manage variance explanations versus actuals, budget and latest forecast

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

• HS diploma and 5+ years of experience ​
• Obtained or actively pursuing a CPA or MBA a plus
• 0-1 years of experience working in a corporate environment in a financial analysis role
• Solid understanding of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•  Associated degree and 3+ years of experience
• Additional bachelor’s degree or minor in technology a plus

Technical Skills

• Analytical capabilities to understand and explain financial variances
• Results driven and able to drive cost savings to achieve financial targets
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and effective use of other Microsoft Office products (i.e., PowerPoint, Word)
• Experience using Tableau a plus
• Change agile and ability to act on projects quickly
• Seizes accountability and is a self-starter
• Quickly learns new skills and knowledge
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Demonstrated business acumen
• Negotiation and influence skills

Leadership Skills

• Works well in a collaborative team environment
• Willingness to contribute fresh and innovative ideas
• Organized and able to work on a variety of projects
• Self-starter and motivated to own tasks and drive results

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

Must be able to work on a laptop/desktop for long periods of time

NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

Willingness to travel 10% of the time to Northeast offices

Work Location Assignment: Flexible

Last day to apply : July 19th 2023

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

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