IT Project Group Manager - C14 - KOWLOON

We are seeking a strategic and adaptive professional to lead regulatory and governance initiatives within our International Technology group and its legal entities. This role demands a proactive individual who excels at interpreting and connecting the dots, providing authoritative advice, and influencing stakeholders at all levels to ensure robust compliance and drive innovation in our solutions. The successful candidate will be instrumental in shaping strategy and fostering strong relationships across global teams and external partners.

Responsibilities:

• Regulatory Compliance & Governance: Drive, implement, and execute compliance with legal entity requirements, including Technology regulatory reporting. This involves ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, Citi's policies, and guidelines, while proactively identifying and escalating control issues.
• Risk Management & Oversight: Appropriately assess and mitigate risks in business decisions, safeguarding Citigroup's reputation and assets. This includes providing credible challenges regarding data integrity and control effectiveness, and meticulously reviewing materials for accuracy and alignment with regulatory expectations.
• Strategic Leadership & Innovation: Champion innovation in solutions for Technology legal entities, leveraging data analytics and identifying industry best practices to enhance value and reduce costs of regulatory activities. Serve as a lead for complex issues, providing analysis and communicating findings effectively.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Influence: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships across local and global regulatory strategy groups, technology teams, business process owners, and internal audit. Guide, influence, and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring collaborative and timely delivery of regulatory and governance requirements.
• Reporting & Methodology Development: Ensure the timely delivery of high-quality, value-added reports for legal entity requirements, meeting global regulatory and board standards. Contribute to the development and enhancement of methodologies and standards for oversight, monitoring, and reporting.
• Operational Excellence: Manage multiple concurrent examinations and audits independently in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines, collaborating effectively with virtual teams across diverse geographies and time zones.

• Leading the work in the designated legal entities to ensure that regulatory obligations are met- including close liaison with other teams and functions to manage the workstreams, scope the work and direct activities. Up to 25% of your time will be spent on globally led projects

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Technology MIC Requirements Assessment & Delivery: Lead support for the Technology MIC in fulfilling their responsibilities – including but not limited to: overseeing the assessment of changes to Technology MIC requirements; driving the identification and implementation of necessary modifications to relevant systems and processes to ensure continuous and robust regulatory compliance and operational effectiveness; overseeing effective controls monitoring, assurance and second line engagement to ensure they meet local requirements.
• Lead Technology MIC Governance and CGMAL Tech Governance Framework Review - Enable the Technology MIC to readily identify concerns and formulate necessary actions. Champion and lead the operationalization of the Technology MIC governance process. Ensure the governance process is periodically reviewed, enhanced, and updated in strict alignment with Citi policies, standards, and all HK regulatory updates. Lead the periodic review and continuous improvement of the Tech governance framework and its supporting processes, including the oversight forum, governance procedures, and managing changes to controls and risk information
• Strategic Partnership & Governance Facilitation: Lead collaborations with local business partners to define and scope governance effectively (e.g., identifying applications supporting regulated activities, categorizing applications for applicable requirements). Directly assist the Technology MIC in the comprehensive review of all pertinent information and artifacts provided by technology and business partners. Lead partnerships with Controls teams and relevant application/technology teams for control reviews. Oversee the documentation of all control review and testing exercises for MIC, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and adherence to standards.
• Influence & Drive Action: Proactively guide and influence relevant teams to ensure timely and effective execution of actions required to address issues or concerns stemming from the governance process.
• Lead Application In-Scope Review: Lead and facilitate the periodic and thorough review of processes to accurately identify applications currently in-scope of HK regulatory requirements and proactively identify any additional applications that should be brought into scope.
• Strategic Support for External/Internal Requests: Oversee and strategically manage responses to all external and internal requests pertaining to the HK Technology MIC oversight and governance process, as well as technology controls testing and review activities, ensuring high-quality and timely deliverables.
• Strategic Regulatory Monitoring: Oversight of monitoring of evolving HK regulatory requirements, guidelines, and industry best practices that directly impact the Technology MIC's responsibilities and accountabilities. Provide timely analysis and communication of implications to relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in regulatory compliance, governance, or related fields, preferably within a complex financial institution.
• Demonstrated expertise in local and international laws, rules, regulations, and risk typologies, with a specific focus on technology and third party or resilience requirements impacting financial services.
• Extensive experience in planning, executing, and reporting on governance, compliance, and regulatory activities, including managing regulatory examinations and auditor relationships.
• Strong understanding of auditing principles, including audit planning, risk assessments, control design, operating effectiveness testing, and reporting.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to influence and lead at senior levels across diverse cultural and organizational boundaries.
• Ability to articulate complex problems and solutions clearly and concisely in both oral and written formats, including strong presentation skills.
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and the adaptability to thrive in a dynamic, matrixed organizational environment.
• Proven ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and navigate complex organizational structures.

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