New Product Approval - Business Analyst and Project Management -Global

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Job description

Management of Product Governance is an integral part of Citi's Risk Management, providing robust diligence to the product initiative approval, product management, risk rating of initiatives, ongoing monitoring, and risk ratings of future and existing products and service, as part of the end-to-end governance over the product lifecycle. Citi's New Product Approval and Governance processes consider both the diligence for approval and the requirements for on-going controls and management over the entire life of the product or service.

As part of self-identified and regulatory remediation efforts, Risk Management has set-up a Product Risk Transformation Group (PTG) to design, develop, test and implement firm-wide systems to support New Product Approval (NPA), New Activities, and Product Risk Monitoring (PRM) including Product Inventories, Product Risk Ratings and Ongoing Monitoring of Product Risk profiles. The various Risk Monitoring Governance Frameworks, business specific guidelines and workflow tools are supported by bespoke system developments.

The Product Risk Transformation Group will develop the change narrative for key internal senior management and external stakeholder groups, track and report on overall program progress and build business capabilities, draft business requirements and scoping documents, design process flow maps and ensure proper testing of workflow application tools to support the running of end-to-end product governance.

Job Description:

New Product Approval Business Analyst and Project Manager - Global will support all Citi business lines.

The individual will be working with business partners, various control functions and external consultants, assist with the development of process maps, workflow maps, writing iterative scoping documents and preparing user acceptance testing plans and UAT coordination to support of the New Product Approval Workflow Tool and New Activities Committee System.

The individual must collaborate various lines of business including MSS, TTS, CCB, CPB, BCMA and Treasury to learn about challenges and opportunities and translate into solutions. This position entails the supporting New Product Approval initiatives as well as production support.

The Business Analyst and Project Manager -Global will be responsible translated stakeholder requirements into tangible deliverables such as function specifications in an Iterative Scoping document, use cases, workflow/process diagram for both waterfall and agile development. The individual will manage the business as usual projects and production support.

The New Product Approval Business Analyst and Project Manager - Global Lead also serves an integral part of the larger Product Governance Frameworks team. The team will work together to drive a consistent approach in creating the overall frameworks, with regular sharing of learnings and best practices between the project Frameworks partners, across the different business lines.

The New Product Approval Business Analyst and Project Manager - Global Lead reports into the Global Product Governance Frameworks Lead.

Key Responsibilities:

• The individual will be working with business partners, various control functions and external consultants, assist with the development of process maps, workflow maps, writing iterative scoping documents and preparing user acceptance testing plans and UAT coordination to support of the New Product Approval Workflow Tool and New Activities Committee System.
• Develop individual project artifacts as necessary, Iterative Scoping document, test planning and scenario documents for user acceptance testing (UAT), project plans as required for all key technical deliveries.
• Possess excellent communication skills to interact with global business groups to elicit, analyze and document Iterative Scoping document
• Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups

• Consult with users and clients to solve complex system issues/problems through in-depth evaluation of business processes, systems and industry standards and recommends solutions
• Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners
• Self-motivated and organized, with determination to achieve goals; ability to work autonomously when required
• Consult with business clients to determine system functional specifications and provides user and operational support

Development Value:

The position provides the opportunity to drive a strategically significant global control process for Citi with an active role in implementing across multiple business lines. The New Product Approval Business Analyst and Project Manager - Global Lead will have unparalleled organizational exposure, with visibility into product and service initiatives across the firm, extensive interaction with Businesses Seniors, Risk, Control Functions and Legal Vehicle Management.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience in drafting Agile Iterative Scoping Documents
• Demonstrated experience in business requirements documentation, process mapping, process re-engineering and managing large, complex, multi-function and/or multi-business line system project development, deployment, and implementations. Experience working with multi-functional partners and internal stakeholders, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated skills in business process mapping, Visio (or like software), PPT, Excel.
• Proficient in leading business elicitation meetings, writing use cases, writing test scripts, and organizing user acceptance testing.
• Demonstrated experience running large infrastructure projects on global basis across multiple busines lines
• Excellent communicator given their primary role of articulating complex, overlapping and requirements and structure firmwide. Experience and ease in interfacing with Senior Management and creating presentations for Senior Management.
• Knowledge of the relevant customer, industry and product range with an understanding of risk disciplines (e.g. market risk, credit risk, operational risk, etc.) and experience in handling such data.
• Individual should be analytical, flexible, team-oriented, have good interpersonal, communication, and follow-up skills with strong attention to detail and ability to multi-task. Integrity, honesty, sound judgment, common sense, and attention to detail

Job Family Group:
Technology

Job Family:
Business Analysis / Client Services

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