Audit Director - Transformation, Culture Accountability Decision Making & Governance

Audit Director - Transformation, Culture Accountability Decision Making & Governance

Job Description

Citi Internal Audit is a dynamic global function of over 1,600 professionals located across more than 60 countries, covering Citi's global businesses and service to clients and customers through its network in 98 countries. Through a culture of continuous improvement, Citi IA is focused on maintaining its position as a best in class IA function and is committed to investing in people, learning and development, innovation and methodology programs.

The Internal Audit mission is to provide independent, objective, reliable, valued and timely assurance to the Board, senior management and regulators of Citigroup and Citibank (and its subsidiaries), over the effectiveness of culture, ethical conduct, governance, risk management, and controls that mitigate current and evolving risks and to enhance the control environment.

The function is made up of multiple teams covering each of Citi's product and functional areas, as well as dedicated teams for IA Operations, IA Innovation and IA Quality Assurance.

The IA Transformation team is a central team within IA, reporting to the Chief Auditor for Citibank, N.A., focused on oversight of IA's review of the Firm-Wide Transformation initiatives. This team will be accountable for oversight, coordination and direction within IA to enable consistent and timely review of Transformation initiatives by developing and maintaining strong working relationships with Internal Audit Product/Functions team(s), Business & Functions Risk/Control, Program leads and Citi's CAO Transformation team. The team will also be responsible for effective check and challenge, driving consistency, developing templates and design principles for IA to review Transformation, structuring and resourcing needs, coordination, aggregation, and reporting from an IA perspective of the Citi Transformation Program.

Key Responsibilities:

• Citi Firm-Wide Transformation Initiative Review: Coordinate the IA wide processes for the review and challenge of Transformation program workstream(s) with a focus on Culture Accountability Decision Making & Governance workstream and ensuring that IA Program teams have clearly identified the required roles and responsibilities and have appropriately identified, and are engaging, all relevant Citi stakeholders with appropriate accountability
• Review of respective workstream to ensure that the objective aligns with regulatory expectations, peer practices, underlying issues and their root causes, and review and challenge the comprehensiveness and quality of the conclusions from the analyses
• Provide credible check and challenge workstream's defined scope, target state, and success criteria to ensure it fully addresses supervisory expectations and underlying issues and root causes, and is embedded in a broader strategic vision
• Look across programs and initiatives to identify related and interdependent elements and provide recommendations, where needed, for combining or connecting programs and initiatives to achieve greater effectiveness and efficiency
• Perform end-to-end review and challenge of workstream deliverables to confirm quality and adequacy of deliverables against program target state
• Coordinate with the CAO Transformation Team workstream leads and Internal Audit Product/Functions Team on closure process for programs, as needed
• Identify and address program resource constraints in collaboration with IA partners
• Escalate significant transformation issues, including the adequacy of corrective action in a timely manner
• Identify areas for additional IA assurance arising from the Transformation activities including those requiring cross enterprise assurance
• Internal Stakeholder Management: Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Internal Audit Product/Functions Team, Business & Function Risk/ Control Leads, Program Leads, and Citi's CAO Transformation workstream Team.
• Proactively interact with Transformation workstream team to provide credible challenge and positively influence Citi culture, ethical conduct, governance, risk management and control frameworks.
• Regulatory Relationship Management: Support the Transformation CA in managing IA's regulatory relationships resulting in constructive 2-way dialogue, trust in the IA function and general reliance being placed on IA's work around Citi Transformation. Meet specific regulatory requirements relating to IA whilst following the standard IA coverage model to the greatest extent possible.
• IA team - Attract, develop, motivate and retain a highly diverse and effective IA team. Work with the global IA tea, to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of IA resources, taking into consideration the costs and experience of local and global auditors as well as leveraging different audit approaches and innovative audit tools. Identifies and develops talent providing long term career opportunities within IA and other parts of Citigroup.

Qualifications:

• 15+ years of progressive business, audit, accountancy or other broad relevant experience, preferably including the regional market and regulatory environment
• Executive presence and expert in building and maintaining strong open relationships with executive stakeholders, working as a partner, exerting influence and providing credible challenge in a constructive manner.
• Advanced understanding of culture, ethical conduct, governance, risk management and control frameworks in leading international organizations.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the true risks of complex global issues, escalate to the appropriate level and provide advice on pragmatic commercial solutions.
• Thought leader in current IA best practice, innovative IA developments and leading the design and delivery of quality risk based forward looking audit plans. Experience of successfully managing major transformational projects.
• Outstanding performer, open minded, resilient, agile, energetic, self-starter, articulate and empathetic whilst being confident to deliver opinions to bring about positive outcomes.
• Proven and progressive business, audit, accountancy or other broad relevant experience, preferably including the market and regulatory environment.
• Strong leadership skills including a track record of identifying and developing world class talent. Experienced in leading large dispersed professional teams.
• Educated to degree level or holder of a relevant professional qualification (e.g. CA, CPA, ACA or CIA).

Job Family Group:
Internal Audit

Job Family:
Audit

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