Finance Controls Sr Manager

**_Excited to grow your career?_**We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions.If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to applyOur people make all the difference in our success.This career opportunity is available at the following Citi site(s): MexicoThe Finance Controls Sr Manager will be responsible for supporting the Mexico Finance function's Control and Governance Framework.The individual will be responsible for the proactive monitoring of the business environment, anticipating risk and control issues and the establishment, maintenance and nurturing of the Control and Governance environment across the Mexico Finance function.This will include a focus and oversight for all significant remediations, ensuring and end-to-end review of our efforts to ensure sustained results.It will also include providing both strategic and operational thought leadership and support on risk and control related to the Mexico Consumer business sale.The role will lead a team of Risk and Control professionals based in Mexico City.The role will also provide oversight to control levers including Manager Control Assessments (MCAs), Issue Management and Finance's participation in the Business Risk and Control Committee (BRCC) forum.The role will ensure readiness and oversight of reviews and examinations by Internal and External Audit, Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM) and Independent Risk, as well as other corporate-wide control drivers and objectives.The individual will directly support the Controller's and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams, but will work collaboratively across the Finance function (e.g. Product Control, Tax, etc.) to assist in enabling the strategy for successfully mitigating regulatory, compliance and operational risk.This role is a critical advisory role and influential in shaping and driving change across the Risk and Control processes for Mexico Finance.It provides an outstanding opportunity to work with senior functional and Finance management.Responsibilities include:- Serving as trusted Risk and Control advisor to Finance stakeholders.- Providing direct support for Controller and FP&A teams for core Risk and Control responsibilities, and advisory support to other Mexico Finance Control teams (e.g. Tax, Product Control, etc.), including sharing best practices- Providing both strategic and operational thought leadership on risk and control to support the Mexico Consumer business sale.This includes assessments of the plan milestones and deliverables in partnership with senior Finance leadership.It also includes working closely with Finance teams on implementation of new legal entity, reviews of Finance taxonomy, transitional activities and providing recommendations on right-placing Finance activities.Work closely with Finance teams to establish robust change control process as new processes and systems are established.- Managing a team of Risk and Control professionals.Developing, attracting, and retaining talent; recommending staffing levels required to carry out the unit's role and responsibilities effectively while adhering to talent management processes and compensation/performance management programs.- Ensuring potential issues or concerns are identified, communicated, and resolved in a timely manner.Work closely with individual businesses and leadership teams on related issues and provide sound advice and guidance as needed to navigate complex problems.- Partner with functions and businesses to manage control issues across Finance-owned Risk Stripes.- Owning and preparing materials for Mexico Finance BRCC.- Overseeing the identification and assessment of risks.Ensuring risks are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled, consistent with the bank's risk appetite statement and all policies and processes established within the risk governance framework.- Managing staff that are monitoring risk through the Manager's Control Assessment process.Ensuring that the control framework and reviews are conducted consistently and regularly, and that controls are appropriately designed, operating effectively and independently monitored.- Managing staff that serve as liaison with Internal Audit and external auditors on critical Issues/Corrective Actions and overseeing the implementation of related remediation.- Ensuring alignment of local risk and control processes to global/regional standards and guidelines.- Drive standardization and implementation of best practices that will improve control metrics, exam results and Scorecards, drawing on collective risk experience/knowledge- Partners with Audit, Compliance, Finance, HR, Legal and Risk colleagues to address both individual as well as systemic issues.- Ensure a robust formal communication process with stakeholders and senior