Product Control Assistant Vice President, Global

The Prod Ctrl Manager is an intermediate management level position responsible for providing full leadership and direction to a team of employees 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 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**:

- Provide operational direction to Finance team
- Assist with contributing to the development of new techniques, models and plans
- Resolve varied and substantial issues that potentially impact the business
- Perform detailed analysis on issues and recommended solutions, as appropriate
- Analyze information utilizing in-depth knowledge of industry practices and procedures
- Escalate anomalies and issues efficiently and on time
- Supervise, motivate, and develop the team, ensuring the quality of deliverables meets or exceeds expectations
- 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**:

- 5-8 years of relevant experience
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
**Education**:

- Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
**Product Control Assistant Vice President, Global Spread Products (GSP) - Structured Credit & Securitized Trading (SCST) and Flow Trading**

**About Citi’s Product Control**

Product Control is a specialized area within the Controllers discipline and is principally associated with the Markets & Securities Services and Corporate & Investment Banking businesses. The Product Control team’s mission is to ensure the completeness, accuracy and integrity of Citi’s books and records. Responsibilities include: product line revenue and balance sheet validation, analysis and reporting, independent price verification, fair value hierarchy classification and valuation adjustments. By advancing with best practice, the team both protects Citi’s reputation and helps to be the best for our clients.

The Product Control team is organized by global product and region, with a global footprint. The team is aligned to each of Citi’s principle product lines or specialized areas such as Valuation Controls, Governance Policy Controls and Global Process Owners Group. Leading with a forward looking vision and passion to be the best requires our team to be strategic, motivational and innovative.

As an active partner across Citi, the team possesses and values a diversity of skills including both analytical and technical components required to manage the dynamic multi-faceted aspects of the role. Ability to think critically, with strategic foresight to anticipate future challenges and create cutting-edge controlled solutions, is complemented by technical coverage across accounting, modeling, risk and proficiency in the market and regulatory environment.

**Business Background**

The Global Spread Products businesses operate mainly in North America and Europe with a presence in Japan and Asia Pacific. The primary businesses include Flow Trading, Loan Origination and Finance, Structured Products, and Municipal Public Finance and Trading. Each of these businesses is supported by their regional product control teams. The GSP businesses are market makers in credit products such as corporate bonds and derivatives, securitized products such as asset backed securities, and municipal products such as municipal bonds and derivatives.

The role will be the lead Product Control partner for the GSP businesses in Mexico City and partner with key stakeholders in the Front Office, Middle Office, Risk and other Finance functions to execute Product Control’s responsibilities and mission statement for the SCST and Flow Trading businesses. The individual is also responsible for proactively driving the adoption of best-in-class controls, process optimization and innovation with the team in Mexico City.

**Responsibilities**
- Responsible for daily production and analysis of profit & loss (P&L), profit attribution analysis and balance sheet reporting for the trading businesses
- Assist in month end closing process including General Ledger entries, balance sheet substantiation and P&L reporting to ensure the accuracy of legal entity, regional, regulatory and external financial statements
- Develop strong understanding of specific cash and derivative products of the trading businesses
- Hands-on management of approximately 2 to 4 team members in Mexico City performing daily Profit and Loss (P&L) analysis and reporting
- Embed a culture of effective challenge, maintain a robust control environment, as well as timely and transparent communication of insightful financial anal