Vice President, Compliance Risk Country Leader

Whether you’re at the start of your career or looking to discover your next adventure, your story begins here. At **Citi**, you’ll have the opportunity to expand your skills and make a difference at one of the world’s most global banks. We’re fully committed to supporting your growth and development from the start with extensive on-the-job training and exposure to senior leaders, as well as more traditional learning. You’ll also have the chance to give back and make a positive impact where we live and work through volunteerism.

**Shape your Career with Citi**

Citi’s **Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM)** is an independent control function that provides guidance and challenge to the firm, managing compliance risk and promoting behavior that is consistent with Citi’s mission.

We’re currently looking for a high caliber professional to join our team as **Vice President, Compliance Risk Country Leader
- Hybrid** (Internal Job Title: Vice President
- **C13**) based in Auckland, New Zealand. Being part of our team means that we’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decision and manage your financial well-being to help plan for your future. For instance:

- Citi provides programs and services for your physical and mental well-being including access to telehealth options, health advocates, confidential counseling and more. Coverage varies by country.
- Citi provides access to an array of learning and development resources to help broaden and deepen your skills and knowledge as your career progresses.

The Compliance Risk Country Leader (CRCL) is responsible for overseeing the Compliance Program for all Citi activity within the jurisdiction: regulated branches, legal entities and other affiliates, as well as shared service centers, such as Citi Service Centers (CSCs). This includes ensuring global policies, standards and processes are applied, and suitable addenda and supplementary procedures established and maintained for compliance with applicable jurisdictional laws and regulations. Contradictions between local law and regulations, and group standards must be promptly identified and escalated, and mitigating processes and controls established to comply with jurisdictional requirements and mitigate the risks of non
- compliance with applicable group-wide or entity-chain related laws and regulations, and global policies and procedures. Responsibilities also include implementing applicable global compliance processes, setting Independent Compliance Risk Management (ICRM) priorities and driving transformation. The CRCL will work closely with senior product, function, and cluster management, and other ICRM teams on strategic initiatives and emerging issues. The CRCL provides franchise support to the Citi Country Officer and country management, including offering credible challenge, escalation of issues and reporting, as appropriate. In addition, the CRCL also provides strategic direction and facilitates the implementation of the Compliance Risk Management (CRM) Framework. The CRCL NZ reports to the Australia Compliance Risk Country Officer (CRCO).

**In this role, the key activities you’ll be involved in are**:
Governance and Organization
- Annual Country Compliance Plan: Preparing, obtaining approval and successfully completing an annual compliance risk management plan, in accordance with the global template and content and presentation requirements, setting out how compliance risk will be managed within the jurisdiction and its constituent parts, and the role to be played by ICRM in order to achieve the plan. Identification of the jurisdictional requirements, accountabilities and the process ownership and monitoring and testing ownership, as well as any applicable legal entity, as well as where required by applicable regulatory agencies. The annual country compliance plan must take into consideration the applicable compliance risk assessments and MCAs appropriate to the jurisdiction and its activities.
- State of Compliance (SOC) Reporting: Preparing quarterly, in accordance with the approved global format, and in adherence to all established requirements for the State of Compliance reporting. The State of Compliance report will be presented to the appropriate CCC and legal entity Board as required within the jurisdiction.
- Enhancing Governance: Providing a valued interactive program of support and compliance risk management services covering the assessment and reporting of Key Compliance Risks across products, services, functions, legal entities, service centers and the jurisdiction as a whole. Providing stakeholders with insight and practical solutions as well as credible challenge to improve the ethical control culture, and conduct risk environment. Timely reporting of significant local regulatory issues to local, overseas, cluster, and global stakeholders. Same-day escalation of regulatory reports received. Maintaining on-going