Monday, 30 July 2012

Compliance Director- Testing

Details: Citi is today’s pre-eminent financial services company and was built to create a highly diversified financial services company that could act as one to deliver solutions to clients throughout the world. With the most diverse array of products and the greatest distribution capacity of any financial firm in the world, our employees manage 200 million customer accounts across six continents in more than 100 countries. Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citigroup") are equal opportunity employers M/F/D/V and do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic. The Global Compliance Testing Program and Strategy Director (Director) is responsible for providing governance and strategic direction to the Compliance Testing programs in the Global Regions for both the Consumer and Institutional Clients Group (ICG) businesses.  This leadership role collaborates with the regional Compliance Testing Heads for the global regions as well as business leaders.  The Director will carry out the following activities, directly or through established staff, in fulfillment of these responsibilities:   Planning, Management, Execution and Oversight - Function effectively within a matrix organizational structure, collaborating with Compliance teams supporting global regions and diverse products to facilitate appropriate levels of information sharing and coordination related to Compliance Testing. - Lead or oversee cross business programs, projects and initiatives related to Global Consumer Compliance Testing, management strategy and project management.                      - Drive results through collaboration and managing through influence to gain consensus and move initiatives forward.                     - Lead or oversee issue resolution, to include the initiation, development and delivery of products, programs and strategies responsive to the issues.  - Participate in the oversight and enhancement of the Compliance Testing infrastructure in support of reporting, capacity planning, plan development, administration and analysis of testing outcomes across Global regions. - Continually review and optimize the Test strategy to eliminate redundancy and duplication, identify process gaps, streamline risk assessments and enhance adequacy, efficiency and effectiveness of test design while taking into account variable requirements of individual regions. - Coordinate the governance of the annual Testing plan, in conjunction with the Global Region Compliance Testing heads. - Build and maintain relationships with other functional heads, working in consultation with Finance, Legal, Risk, Global Operations & Technology and Internal Audit to create a supportive and seamless Control environment and culture. - Lead and manage a staff of Compliance officers at various levels, with accountability for hiring, training, development, performance and compensation recommendations for directly supervised Compliance staff, and accountability for providing input on the above issues for matrix-managed staff. - Coordinate organizational structure, budget and other administrative functions related to the Global Testing organization.   Advisory -  Establish a professional relationship with regulatory bodies as well as key internal/external stakeholders and proactively represent Global Compliance Testing as required. - Build and maintain appropriate subject matter expertise personally and within the Compliance staff, coordinating with and leveraging global shared utilities and subject matter experts. - Prepare for, track and when appropriate, function as the primary liaison for Internal Audit / regulatory reviews particularly for Compliance Testing related issues. - Liaise/advise and oversee development of corrective actions as needed for Compliance Testing related issues surfaced during Internal Audit reviews and / or audits by outside regulators.    Communications - Keep Compliance, Business and Functional management informed of significant matters and oversee a governance process designed to communicate timely and relevant information to senior management as well as Corporate / Regional management, via both established dashboards and other vehicles.

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