Audit Coordination and Issue Validation Senior Analyst - Vice President

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Audit Coordination and Issue Validation Senior Analyst - 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 to Citi's HR International Controls team based in Belfast.

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

We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 90 countries developing and supporting next-generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organization for our clients.

You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast's iconic Titanic Quarter.

• Collaborate with teams across HR to coordinate deliverables requested during audits and regulatory examinations.
• Engage with Citi colleagues across the first, second and third lines of defence, including Country HR Officers (CHROs), to effectively identify and elevate issues within the employee lifecycle and associated root causes.
• Develop communication, leadership, and strong technical skills to influence a wide range of internal Citi colleagues, and external audiences including regulators and external auditors.
• Deliver timely, high‑quality, value‑added multiple concurrent deliverables on time and to specification.
• Develop a broad and comprehensive understanding of multiple HR disciplines and of various Citi policies and standards.
• Ensure HR meets / exceeds the requirements and expectations of Citi's auditors and regulators.

• Coordinate and manage audits and regulatory examinations impacting HR across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (MEA), and UK clusters.
• Assist in contributing to 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.
• Provide support in 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 accordance with Issue Management and Escalation Policies.
• Support the implementation of the HR Issue Management Procedure, including monitoring of control breaches and dissemination of learnings across other functional HR units for process improvement to limit the occurrence of similar future events and where similar risk exposure might exist.
• Influence decisions on the review and challenge process on the effective design and management of controls to mitigate risks as required by the Control Standards, including implementation and operation, conducting the control monitoring, handling deficiencies, and escalating issues for resolution.
• Work with the team to identify, assess, elevate, 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.
• Provide support to identify, assess, record and respond to Operational and Compliance Risk events, ensuring these are captured accurately, timely and in accordance with requirements.
• Perform analysis to support risk and control assessments or coordination for programs within various risk stripes and ensure sufficient subject matter expertise exists to enable management of these risks within the Business (e.g., third party, fraud, sanctions etc) (if applicable).
• Be involved with the implementation of standards and procedures that conform to enterprise requirements and support sound operational and compliance risk management.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions…