24737293 Senior Vice President, Productivity (Hybrid)

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Citi Finance is responsible for the firm’s financial management and related controls. The team comprises disciplines including Treasury, Tax, Controllers and Financial Planning & Analysis, and manages and partners on key Citi initiatives and deliverables, such as our quarterly earnings process and ensuring Citi’s compliance with financial rules and regulations.

We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as Senior Vice President, Productivity - Hybrid (Internal Job Title: Senior Vice President - C14) based in Singapore. Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future. For instance:

• Citi provides access to an array of learning and development resources to help broaden and deepen your skills and knowledge as your career progresses.
• We have a variety of programs that help employees balance their work and life, including generous paid time off packages.
• We offer our employees resources and tools to volunteer in the communities in which they live and work. In 2019, Citi employee volunteers contributed more than 1 million volunteer hours around the world.

In this role, you’re expected to take on:

The Senior Vice President, SVP (C14) is a critical role in Citi’s Productivity organization.

Citi Productivity increases engagement, empowerment, and innovation so Citi can compete more effectively in a world of relentless technological, behavioral, and societal change.

The Productivity organization creates solutions that ignite Citi's talent ecosystem, deploying digital tools and simplifying operating models and processes that transform our business and Functions.

The Senior Vice President will be a key member of the team, managing engagements across the Firm. Projects will vary in size, duration, and complexity; will have significant and measurable business value outcomes; and will be highly visible with executive-level sponsorship.

The Senior Vice President, will operate within a relatively flat organization and work closely with senior leaders within the Productivity organization and will lead the day-to-day activities of significant, multi-workstream engagements via a matrix management structure.

In this role, you’re expected to:

• Plan, lead, and manage all phases of engagements; drive project execution and delivery, anticipate issues and risks, develop and execute mitigation strategies
• Develop and maintain rigorous project plans and manage tactical project requirements including resources, relationships, and tasks
• Manage workstream leads and coordinate activities, dependencies, and connections of multiple-workstream engagements for senior executives and leaders throughout the organization
• Independently think through and structure analysis plans and drive solutions to problems through identification of initial hypotheses, and creation of frameworks and methodologies
• Lead the analysis of complex sets of data and business processes independently and guide, instruct, manage, and mentor experienced workstream leads
• Guide the team to synthesize clear findings and recommendations from complex result sets using qualitative and quantitative analysis methods
• Identify potential strategic and business transformational opportunities and analyzing them to determine financial and strategic impact; prioritize and develop detailed implementation plans
• Drive business optimization through insightful analysis (identification, sizing, execution & tracking) and create/modify/manage presentations for business transformation programs
• Drive the development of the best solutions and act as a key day-to-day point of communication to project sponsors and motivate them to take action
• Manage engagement of key stakeholders and drive adoption of recommendations and solutions
• Create and manage the process for creation and sharing of re-usable intellectual capital, lessons learned, and contributions of relevant content to Productivity’s knowledgebase
• Optimize and design business and operating models, streamline organization structures, analyze, simplify, re-design, and rationalize process models, and design governance and policy programs
• Develop and assess innovation opportunities, identify new sources of growth, and model new value propositions
• Collaborate with business and functional stakeholders to identify significant opportunities for revenue growth and cost optimization

As a successful candidate, you’d ideally have the following skills and exposure:

• At least 8 years in a major management consulting firm, or equivalent experience in a large Financial Services company
• Proven record of high performance and substantial achievements in similar past positions
• Prior experience managing consulting engagements and teams in the instruction, coordination, and management of activities of multiple workstream leads in creation of project artifacts
• Exceptional written and verbal communications with experience influencing senior stakeholders
• Mastery in the use of PowerPoint for development of project presentations and deliverables
• Deep expertise in selected areas of financial services
• Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier university in a STEM, business, finance, economics, accounting, or other analytical field with outstanding academic record; MBA or other advanced degree preferred

PREFERRED COMPETENCIES (some of the below):

• Skilled leadership in driving sizeable engagements of large-scale transformation projects
• Project planning, status reporting and ongoing project management
• Executive-level stakeholder diplomacy, influencing, management
• Skilled in guiding, influencing, and convincing team members, colleagues, and stakeholders
• Communications, training, and change management
• Analysis plan and framework development and execution
• Hypothesis generation, data analysis, root cause identification
• Process analysis, rationalization, and design
• Business case and financial model development
• Initiative structuring, planning, and road-mapping
• Functional expertise in one or more areas of the busines

CHARACTERISTICS:

• Strong ability to lead and demonstrate presence through influence
• Naturally drives teams to work effectively and collaboratively to produce analyses and deliverables
• Demonstrated experience in leading and managing workstream leads on engagements with appropriate urgency
• Excellent ability to identify issues, structure and conduct analyses, organize findings, draw conclusions, identify next steps, and make recommendations independently
• Expert in using PowerPoint to present analyses and communicate with a clear storyline
• Highly analytical and rigorous thinker with a balance of creativity
• Naturally applies a collaborative approach in driving teams in performing research, obtaining data, conducting analyses, generating deliverables, and managing stakeholders
• Innovative and curious, and readily able to think outside of the box
• Verbally communicates clearly, concisely, effectively, and impactfully
• Excels in working in environments characterized by ambiguity and change
• Passionate about improving employee and customer experience
• Strong desire to engage executives, employees, and stakeholders to improve the organization
• Detail-oriented and effective multi-tasker

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a family of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

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