Senior Costing Operations Lead (Hybrid)

Overview of Citi:

Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.
Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 3000 people from over 40 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices.
We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 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.

Role Overview:
Resource required to manage the new CIFO Costing Operations team . The Costing Operations team will act as an interface between CIFO, Product Management and CTI Service Leads, to drive strong governance and alignment for Product financial processes. This incorporates rate setting, facilitation of TCO sign off, customer impact and communication plan, tooling, cost model administration and advisory support. For a given product area(s), they will also monitor billing inventory, deliver optimization reporting and deal with ad-hoc queries and requests.

• Create and facilitate a strong interaction model for all CTI services between CIFO, CTI Service leads and product management.
• Crosstrain teams and retain subject matter expert knowledge
• Scale the support that will be required to interface with the product management teams.
• Scale tooling
  • Standardize KPI Cost model for use by all Service Areas
  • Develop capability to increase the number forecast cycles per year
• Align inventory directly from centralized inventory databases to feed to financial tooling
• Determine if inventory management can move to service leads
• Enhance the functionality of Cost Model Tooling to build financial roadmap capability

The Infrastructure Group Manager is a senior management-level position responsible for managing and guiding a team that ensures efficient and effective Citi infrastructure in coordination with the Technology Team. The overall objective of this role is to use infrastructure technology knowledge and identified policies to process data, resolve issues and execute administrative tasks.

Responsibilities:

• Develop strategies to meet business strategy goals and demonstrate in-depth understanding of how Technology Infrastructure integrates within the overall technology function to achieve objectives
• Lead and motivate a team, conducting managerial responsibilities such as performance evaluation and management, employee selection, compensation, budget management and resource planning
• Resolve issues that have impact beyond own area and apply in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas
• Provide services by using insights from stakeholder/partner relationships, actively seeking information to understand issues, expectations and needs
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contributes to defining standards and recommend reengineering efforts for continuous improvement
• Provide evaluative judgment based on analysis of information in complicated, unique and dynamic situations, drawing on diverse range of internal and external sources
• Persuade and influence others through communication and diplomacy skills and negotiate with external parties as needed
• 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Skills:

• Significant experience in a technology infrastructure role with experience in people and project management and selected infrastructure technologies
• Experience in financial services or large complex and/or global environment preferred
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication with ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Proven ability to develop projects required for design of metrics, analytical tools, benchmarking activities and identification of best practices
• Proven analytical, diagnostic and multitasking skills with focus on execution and attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to both work independently and partner with virtual teams in a high-pressure matrix environment
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of various parts of a project/initiative with tight deadlines or unexpected changes in expectation/ requirements

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience

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We'll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decisions, and allow you to choose which benefits suit you and your personal life best.

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Highlights to our core benefits include:

• Award winning pension
• On-site health services
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
• Paid parental leave
• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 Days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure

Citi Belfast also champions diversity within our workforce, which helps us be well and live well together. We have over 40 different nationalities in our Northern Ireland offices, are a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, and are proud to have 47% of our leadership team made up of individuals who identify as women.

We encourage and lead inclusivity through our Pride, Disability, Multicultural, Families Matter, and Women affinity networks that are run by and for, Citi Belfast colleagues; providing them with the support they need in their personal and professional journeys and supplying them with the tools to help educate colleagues on all things related to each network to help us work better together.
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