The Project Group Manager is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary. Accountable for the end results of an area. Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning. Primarily affects a sub-function. Involved in short- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area. Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management of significant projects; manages a department, product or process with a large amount of independence.
• Develops and exercises business plans, policies and procedures and may also be responsible for various projects to improve efficiencies.
• Identifies stakeholders and key organizations and build and manage relationships.
• Directs the creation of multiple projects of work and manage their alignment to business goals.
• Leads the facilitation, coordination, and arbitration of cross functional macro level topics within/across projects and with Senior Management.
• Leads the identification and drive resolution of issues, including those outside established projects of work with stakeholders to ensure project scope definition.
• Meets business objectives and work with project sponsor to ensure business case/cost benefit analysis is in line with business objectives.
• Drives adherence to project processes, procedures, methods, and standards for project delivery and leverage across the project.
• Assists project team in negotiating for resources owned by other departments in order ensure the project can be completed.
• Directs the communication of status, issue, and risk disposition to all stakeholders, including Senior Management, on a timely basis.
• Directs the identification of risks which impact project delivery and ensure mitigation strategies are developed and executed when necessary.
• 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.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience
• Technical expert and known internally and externally as reliable, knowledgeable resource.
• Clear understanding of Citi's' different businesses and the related economics.

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

Job Description

Citi is embarking on a multi-year technology initiative to upgrade our core accounting and servicing application for its Agency, NonAgency and Bi-lateral Lending businesses globally in order to support growth and strategic objectives including reduction in manual efforts leading to risk mitigation within the environment. The technology stack transformation will include migrating to the Loan IQ platform and exiting current products that support the businesses. A dedicated Loan IQ implementation team is needed in order to lead and deliver against the implementation timelines including technology and operational Loan IQ Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) who will engage to drive integrations, conversion, reporting and testing components of the transformation program. The team will have a strong understanding of the Loan IQ product coupled with strong understanding of Loan Operations to ensure the platform meets the defined set of requirements.

The expectation is the right resource will provide an industry perspective on best practices for consideration by the working team while also considering the needs of Citi businesses. H/she will have strong communication and diplomacy skills in order to influence internal partners to ensure right solutions are deployed. The ability to focus on details while ensuring higher level objectives are achieved, are critical to the success of this role.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the migration efforts to the Loan IQ platform across multiple businesses and regions, drive transparency and mitigate risk for the franchise
• Work with project team to capture business requirements with consideration to legal, compliance and current regulatory environment
• Managing scope and timelines, internal and external communication
• Managing client expectations
• Lead meetings with internal and external groups to clarify complex requirements and rules
• Create process flow diagrams and use cases for regression testing and new functionality for updated Loan IQ platform
• Lead integration testing and UAT for new platform
• Maintain project plan and artifacts and ensure timely delivery
• Communicate project progress to stakeholders and senior leadership
• Track and work to mitigate issues, risks and dependencies

Qualifications:

• 6-8 years Relevant Corporate Lending project experience
• Knowledge of syndicated loans business including deal structure, operations, loan types, etc. required
• Excellent communication skills to liaise with stakeholders and senior management
• Excellent grasp of project and system development lifecycle
• Prior experience leading enterprise platform implementations needed
• Loan IQ platform expertise, with strong preference of migration and/or new implementation experience
• Persuades and influences colleagues, management, clients and stakeholders through excellent communication, interpersonal and diplomacy skills
• Relevant Migration workstream project management experience – including experience in migration planning, implementation, data cleanup and strategy
• Roles at this level require significant industry experience
• Experience creating and conducting training sessions and leading support after project launch
• MBA, Business Analysis or Project Management Certification is a strong plus

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree, Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.