The Business Risk Officer role is a strategic professional who is pivotal in managing Risks for the Wealth Organization. Understanding of the Control framework and performing required duties to mitigate risk for activities such as Regulatory/Policy Change, Lessons Learned, Exam deliverables etc. in a timely manner. Additionally this role is responsible for ensuring the Wealth business adapts swiftly and efficiently to control requirements, collaborate with cross-business governance departments to ensure cohesive risk management approaches. Excellent communication skills required to guide, influence, and implement business risk and control strategies. The ability to document control execution procedures and manage cross-functional team activities will be required in this role.

Responsibilities: 

• Accountable for the quality, completeness, and accuracy of the implementation of the Control Framework, including Risk Control Policy, Control Standard, Issue Management Policy, Lesson Learned Policy and Control Inventory.
• Ensure the identification of issue root cause, partnering with control and process owners to recommend holistic corrective actions and improvements, provide check and challenge to ensure appropriate escalation in according with Issue Management and Escalation Policies.
• Direct teams in the implementation of the Lessons Learned Policy, including monitoring of control breaches and dissemination and learnings across other business units for process improvement to limit the occurrence of similar future events and where similar risk exposure might exist

• Help management allocate resource to identify, assess, escalate, and manage risk exposures across Risk Categories (Operational Compliance, Strategic, Reputational, etc), including material, emerging and concentration risks in accordance with enterprise Policies and the establishment of Key Indicators to monitor risk exposures.
• Assess, with management, the risks associated with New Activities and changes to the Business, ensuring these are well understood and adequately controlled (if applicable).
• Assist management in guiding and influencing standards and procedures that conform to enterprise requirements and support sound operational and compliance risk management.
• Apply knowledge of the business, products or services to identify and implement control points and processes throughout the business.

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
• Respond to data requests from audit team and regulators
• Ensure effective, robust and proactive identification of risks establishing holistic Controls framework across product management, internal strategies, procedures, processes and reporting to prevent violations of law, internal rules or regulations maintaining risk levels within the firm's risk appetite.

Qualifications:

• 10 years relevant work experience in Business Risk & Controls.
• 5 years’ experience in Financial/Wealth Services
• MS Excel, MS Access, Visual Basic required
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective organizational influencing skills required.
• Excellent problem solving skills ability to see the big pictures with high attention to critical details.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement strategy and process improvement initiatives.
• Knowledge of Investment and Consumer Regulations

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, preferable Master’s degree

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