Anywhere The Financial Books & Records (FB&R) Transformation Initiative has been established under the wider Citi Finance Transformation and comprises three pillars – Accounting, Ledgers and Close, and associated global platforms, processes, and governance. The program includes standardizing and reducing risk across current FB&R processes and establishing the next iteration of ledger strategy to adopt and implement global standard SaaS / Cloud based accounting and ledger platforms (the “Strategic Ledger”). The outcome will be a robust global process, governance, and controls to ensure consistent and materially accurate, complete, and timely ledger data and results.
The program has established a Citi-wide governance and cross-functional team including Finance, Shared Services, Risk, Business and Technology partners. The scope of the program includes:
- Centralizing and standardizing accounting into global accounting hubs and sub-ledgers.
- Implementing a standard sub ledger and general ledger for the firm.
- Replacing Citi’s current Operating and Reporting ledgers, including those embedded in bank-in-a-box platforms such as Flexcube.
- Automating and streamlining accounting and ledger processes and controls.
- Addressing source data quality issues impacting ledgers in partnership with enterprise-wide data priorities.
The Strategic Ledger Reconciliation Solution Lead – Senior Vice President (C14) will be part of the overall FB&R Initiative.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the requirement, design, implementation, and testing activities of the Strategic Ledger Reconciliation solution.
- Manage a team of 2 – 4 direct staff members and 10 -20 third-party resources.
- Partner with the Finance, Operations and Technology stakeholder communities.
- Partner with Finance Data Initiative to ensure alignment of FB&R Ledger and Data transformation priorities.
- Partner with General Ledger workstream to ensure alignment of Ledger and Chart of Account design, and enablement of reconciliations.
- Partner with Solution Architecture workstream to ensure alignment with Citi’s technology architecture design principles.
- Partner with other horizontal workstreams including Operating model, Process, and Controls to ensure consistency of reconciliations’ design.
Qualifications and skills:
- 12+ years of relevant work experience with global corporations and financial services experience gained in Banking or in an associated consulting role.
- Proven track record of working in Finance organizational and technology transformations enabled by SaaS Cloud technologies (Oracle, SAP, Workday, Axiom, Workiva).
- Significant experience in design and implementation of reconciliation solutions using market leading technologies (e.g., Oracle Accounts Reconciliations, Smartstream TLM, Blackline).
- Significant experience in definition of reconciliation solutions that requires changes in technology and processes across the whole organization.
- Understanding of General Ledger and Chart of Accounts design concepts.
- Understanding of the regulatory and control requirements around Citi’s ledgers including ICOFR and SOX.
- Understanding of accounting concepts related to US GAAP, IFRS and Local GAAP standards.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business, Management, or related field is required; CPA or equivalent will be a differentiator.
Job Family Group:
Finance
Job Family:
Fin Solutions Dsgn & Implement
Time Type:
Full time
Primary Location:
Jacksonville Florida United States
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:
$141,440.00 – $212,160.00
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Anticipated Posting Close Date:
Sep 10, 2024
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