Financial Solutions Lead Analyst - Vice President

Financial Solutions Lead Analyst – Vice President

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Job Overview

We're currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as Vice President, Data Analyst.

Citi has embarked on a multi-year Finance Transformation initiative to implement a new Global Financial Accounting and General Ledger platform that provides a daily ledger in every legal entity, linking ledger balances and contract level reconciliations to our daily settlement records and contractual commitments. The Strategic Ledger program as it is named, selected Oracle Cloud as the technology platform of choice, after a rigorous technical and functional assessment of the firm's current ledger platforms against leading industry solutions. The new platform provides enhanced technical capability and supports our finance transformation strategy and realization of our Target Operating Model. The outcome will be a robust global process, governance, and controls to ensure consistent and materially accurate, complete, and timely ledger data and results.

Data Analyst specialist will be responsible in the delivery of critical transformational initiatives related to data reconciliation, data mapping, downstream data analysis and explaining the breaks to Finance users to be used for regulatory and reporting purposes, system enhancements and outbounds to downstream systems.

Competencies & Experience: As a successful candidate, you'd ideally need to have the following skills and exposure:

• Accounting & Financial Statement Experience:
• Accounting: Demonstrates strong proficiency in Accounting and Financial reporting. Good understanding of US GAAP and IFRS accounting principles. Demonstrate strong analytical skills with ability to interpret complex data and draw meaningful insights
• Books and Records: Comprehensive knowledge of managing financial records, identify breaks, requires synthesizing complex data into clear, concise, and insightful summaries that enable Controllers to understand financial performance, identify trends, explain variances, and make informed decisions. The Data Analyst must be able to articulate the story behind the numbers, providing context from the SL data.
• Financial Statements Experience: Hands-on experience in preparing, analyzing, and validating data for financial statements, understanding the impact of changes on reporting. It involves rigorous quality assurance for reliable financial reporting and providing clear explanations for data variances.
• Data Change Governance: Role requires disciplined management of data modifications, ensuring all changes are controlled, documented, and aligned with established data policies & regulatory mandates. It encompasses enforcing policies, data management, ensuring auditability/traceability for data quality and compliance.
• Control Mindset: Cultivates a robust and accountable control mindset, demonstrating unyielding integrity and an inquisitive approach to proactively identify, investigate, and reconcile ledger discrepancies, thereby preventing financial errors.
• Data Quality & Integrity:
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Role requires systematically collecting, analyzing, and interpreting complex data to inform strategic choices and operational adjustments. It requires translating analytical findings into clear, actionable insights and effectively communicating them to influence decisions and drive improvements.
• Data Quality Management: Proficiency in establishing and monitoring data quality processes, and metrics for ledger data, including accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness.
• Reconciliation Management: Understanding of data reconciliation processes to ensure consistency between the ledger and other systems.
• Data Validation: Experience in implementing and overseeing data validation check and controls specific to ledger entries, transactions and reconciliations.
• Front-to-back Transformation and Change Management:
• Driving large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives : Experience in life cycle of ledger implementation. Knowledge of Full suite and upstream / downstream data architecture and mapping is preferable.
• Risk and Issue Management: Report and manage risks and issues through the preparation and analysis of large datasets in the Strategic Ledger and associated applications.
• Other:
• Problem - Solving : Critical ability to systematically identify, diagnose, and resolve intricate issues & challenges in large-scale transformation projects. It encompasses root cause analysis, solution design, risk mitigation, and leading complex data problem resolution.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders including business users, IT, legal, compliance, audit, and external vendors.
• Communication & Influence : Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills to articulate data governance concepts, policies, and their importance to all levels of the organization.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to think strategically about data as an asset and its role in achieving organizational goals.
• Technical Acumen:
• Proficiency with Tableau, SQL, Knime preferred.
• General Ledger: Oracle GL or similar ERP experience
• Education:
• Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Management or other business related field is required; CA or CPA equivalent will be added advantage
• 13+ years of relevant experience, in financial services with a focus on accounting, transformation and program delivery. Knowledge of Oracle, SAP or similar ledger platforms is a plus

Citi is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.