Sanctions Business Intelligence Manager

Global TTS Sanctions Data & Business Intelligence unit is part of Global Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) Sanctions Operations. Business Intelligence unit collects and processes data relating to sanctions match dispositioning process in TTS. Regular data analysis, assessing opportunities for optimizations or supporting controlling tools (e.g., through big data) are only some examples of the efforts undertaken by the unit. Our goal is to provide data and insights that will support better-informed decisions across all Business Lines (Commercial Cards, Onboarding, Payments & Receivables, Trade).

About the opportunity

We are looking for a skilled leader with a proven track record and an appropriate experience on sanctions match dispositioning process, data analytics and payments background.

Have an impact!

Your key responsibility will be to manage a team of professionals servicing sanctions insights for all TTS Business Lines throughout the world, identifying opportunities for optimizations and strengthen our data and BI protocols and influence the change! As a manager you will:

• Oversee and organize a team’s work and provide feedback and help people improve and grow
• Set goals and drive the overall roadmap for the Sanctions Optimizations stream
• Contribute to the Business Intelligence strategy and ensure the agenda is delivered
• Lead on reporting, analytics and data exploration that will provide insights and process optimization opportunities
• Prepare one-pagers, decks and power point presentations in a structured and concise way
• Translate complex analytics tasks into easily digestible information to guide data-based decisions with various stakeholders

You will lead a stream focused on optimization of our screening process and outcomes, including:

• Conditional rules creation and monitoring (closely partnering with Compliance)
• Sanctions Policy Manager management (closely partnering with Payments Product, Operations and Compliance)
• Creating risk-balanced pattern optimization requests (low quality patterns) as well as exploring other opportunities towards data- and evidence-based proposals for optimizing the match dispositioning process

Qualifications:

• Strong leadership and decision making abilities
• Minimum 2 years of experience in managing people
• Experience in sanctions match dispositioning (Match Verification Guidelines, Global Operating Standard for Sanctions Matches)
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel. Able to perform complex tasks involving datasets and statistics
• Fluent English spoken and written
• Knowledge of payments (SWIFT, MT structure) would be an asset
• Ability to work under time pressure and to solve problems

What we offer:

• Competitive salary connected with annual salary review and discretionary annual performance bonus
• Social benefits (private healthcare, award winning pension scheme, multisport, life insurance, holiday allowance, anniversary program, competitive maternity and paternity scheme)
• Hybrid model of work – from the office and from home
• Working in a friendly, dynamic, supportive and diverse environment – including multiple affinity and social networks & voluntary activities to engage with
• Structured onboarding process and extensive training offering (e.g. including Udemy, Degreed)
• Opportunity to have an influence on the way you perform your tasks - our teams are constantly looking for new and better ways and we encourage all improvement ideas
• Unlimited development opportunities within Citi global network
• Exposure to a wide range of internal stakeholders as well as to senior management