Senior Manager - Audit Plan Enablement - Senior Vice President

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in analysis, problem solving and communication to Citi’s Internal Audit (IA) Chief Operating Office.

By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organization whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Team/Role Overview

The Senior Manager role is a senior level management position responsible for managing a complex and critical unit within the Internal Audit (IA) Chief Operating Office (COO).

As part of the IA COO Audit Risk & Response team, the Senior Manager will manage and coordinate the top-down audit approach globally. A key aspect of the role is for the Senior Manager to leverage their audit expertise to ensure coverage of critical risks to Citi within the audit plan and to ensure that the global audit plan aligns with strategic objectives and regulatory expectations.

What you’ll do

1. Redesign and oversee ongoing execution of global risk assessment calibration process, with the objective of the audit entity universe being assessed at the right frequency.
2. Provide subject matter expertise for audit practices, including maintaining a strong understanding of IA Methodology, to ensure that global planning processes are designed to align with Methodology and to continuously improve the audit planning process.
3. Partner with the IA Leadership Team (LT), Chief Auditors, Heads of Audit, Material Legal Entity Chief Audit Executives, and the broader IA function to successfully produce a top-down audit approach and ensure the annual plan that is risk-focused and provides a holistic opinion on top risks.
4. Support strategic projects that enable the global department.
5. Oversee and monitor changes to the audit universe and potential impacts to the plan.
6. Develop and oversee semi-annual controls for critical element mapping for audit universe globally, including establishing aging reporting and escalation to Senior Management committees.
7. Leverage audit skillset to ensure that audit coverage strategies articulate why a topic is a critical risk to Citi and that the audit work supports the overall audit opinion to be rendered to Senior Management and the Board. Provide credible challenge and influence audit delivery teams to ensure adequacy of testing strategies.
8. Prepare executive, regulatory, and board reporting in adherence with data management expectations and controls.
9. Manage a team of Internal Audit professionals, recruit staff, lead professional development, and build effective teams.

What we’ll need from you

1. Experience within audit delivery, including conducting audits and managing audit entities, is required.
2. Related certifications (CPA, ACA, CFA, CIA, CISA or similar) preferred.
3. Demonstrated successful experience in business, functional and people management.
4. Experience providing timely, high-quality and insightful audit deliverables for senior management under tight deadlines.
5. Proven ability to execute concurrently on a portfolio of high quality deliverables according to strict timetables.
6. Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication.