The Prod Ctrl Sr.
Manager is a senior management level position responsible for accomplishing results through the management of a team or department in an effort to ensure the completeness, accuracy and integrity of the bank's books and records in coordination with the Finance team.
The overall objective of this role is to drive efforts to control and support data integrity and general ledger reconciliation, profit attribution and new activity analysis, valuation control and product P&L and balance sheet reporting.
**Responsibilities**:
- Manage a team of professionals and ensures the quality and timeliness of daily tasks
- Contribute to standards that others will adhere to
- Resolve complex and varied issues, escalating anomalies and issues, as needed and proposing appropriate course of action
- Conduct individual performance evaluation and career planning/development for team members
- Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
- Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
- Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
- Ability to manage teams.
**Qualifications**:
- 6-10 years of relevant experience
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
**Education**:
- Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
- Master's degree preferred
**This is an opportunity to provide leadership on driving change improvement within a key business for Citi, to be able to demonstrate delivering results, working as a key strategic business partner to the business and helping to build a great Global Product Control Team.
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**Responsibilities Include**:
- Manage a team of several professionals, interacting with members across multiple locations on a daily basis, including those based in the regional Citi Service Center (CSC) and Hub;
- Oversight of daily revenue production, validation and reporting of the NAM G10 Rates, Markets Treasury & Finance Desk businesses, specifically focused on secured financing transactions, interest rate swaps, options, as well as borrowings and placements;
- Oversight of daily and month-end sub-ledger / ledger validation;
- Review and assess sizable balance sheet and supporting regulatory reporting, month-end closing process and quarterly / annual disclosure reporting, including providing qualitative and quantitative analyses of the aforementioned;
- Understand the Profit Attribution Analysis (PAA) of the portfolio.
Communicate daily and monthly results and/or issues to the trading desk and senior management, particularly around residuals.
Drive to resolve them in partnership with the Front Office, Market Risk, Technology and Market Quantitative Analytics;
- Partner with the Valuation Control Group (VCG) in the review and supervision of inventory valuation testing and results;
- Engagement in New Products Approval Committee (NPAC) reviews and validation, including documentation of Product Control reviews;
- Oversight of daily risk / position validation;
- Daily interaction with other managers throughout the organization, including, but not limited to Senior Managers within Finance (i.e.
Treasury, Tax, Accounting Policy, Planning, etc.
), trading desks, transactors, middle office, risk management, business unit management teams and operations will be necessary to resolve issues and drive change;
- Management Control Self-Assessment responsibility for the respective areas under supervision;
- Ad hoc projects / assignments including system development, redesigning and streamlining daily and monthly processes, not just for team, but also for the larger department;
- Providing and reviewing analytics / control metrics for the management team;
- Coordinate and manage internal and external audit reviews;
- Responsible for integrating the team, including but not limited to leading standardization of the control framework across the larger the product lines and enabling best practices;
- Manage performance reviews and career development opportunities of staff members
**Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree required, Finance and / or Accounting degree preferred;
- Advanced degree, CPA, CFA and/or other equivalent degrees / certifications are big pluses;
- Minimum 7 years related business experience required; experience supporting fixed income secured financing and derivatives trading desks; prior management experience also preferred;
- Must have strong knowledge in accounting fundamentals, transfer pricing, transformation management, financial modeling, portfolio management and understanding of cash flows and asset valuation preferred, particularly with rates-related products;
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written required.
This includes the ability to effectively communicate across multiple teams situated in various geographies in order to lead;
- Strong MS Office Excel skills a must, Access, PowerPoint and other financial systems are pluses;
- Must h