Senior Legal Business Risk and Control Officer – Manager’s Control Assessment

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

1/25/2025

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? If you are motivated and a self-starter, then bring your skills in analysis, problem solving and effective communication to Citi’s Global Legal Controls team.

By Joining Citi, 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.

Team/Role Overview

The Business Risk and Control Senior Officer is a strategic professional who closely follows latest trends in own field and adapts them for application within own job and the business. Excellent communication and diplomacy skills required to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Accountable for significant direct business results or authoritative advice regarding the operations of the business. Necessitates a degree of responsibility over technical strategy. Responsible for handling staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work within the team/project.

The Business Risk and Control Senior Officer will be a key member of the Global Legal Control (GLC) Team supporting the Legal Department, Regulatory Strategy and Policy (RSP), and the Group Decision Making and Governance Office (GDMGO) team with focus on the development, implementation and execution of new BAU transformation processes such as centralized testing in the GLC team and helping ensure appropriate adherence to firm-wide initiatives and requirements, including operational and compliance risk management programs.

What You’ll Do

• Work with Management in Legal on the development, implementation, governance and the facilitation of the execution of the Manager’s Control Assessment (primarily Monitoring and Testing activities (MCA, i.e. Risk & Control Self-Assessment) as required by the MCA Standard including the assessment and appropriate approval of risk associated with business changes.
• Provide oversight to control monitoring and testing activities performed by both employees and non-employee contractors to ensure established standards are met.
• Accountable for 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.
• Ensure 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 according with Issue Management and Escalation Policies.
• Support management in the review and challenge process, within the FLUs, 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 management, direct teams on the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of the MCA through controls prior to the execution of a process (QC).
• Assess, with management, the adherence to the MCA Standard through controls after the execution of a process (QA) and the risks associated with New Activities and changes to the Business, ensuring these are well understood and adequately controlled (if applicable).
• Assist management in exercising control, reporting, and analysis over Operational and Compliance Risk management activities in accordance with established Policy requirements.
• Take ownership to identify, assess, record and response to Operational and Compliance Risk events, ensuring these are captured accurately, timely and in accordance with requirements, and to to ensure that risk and control responsibilities and accountabilities are embedded within FLUs, including providing training and leading by example.
• Be responsible of 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).
• Apply knowledge of the business, products or services to identify and implement control points and processes throughout the business.
  
  

What We’ll Need From You

• Extensive experience in a relevant role and field.
• Familiarity with 3rd party risk models.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• SQL, Perl or Python, Matlab or R, Excel VBA. Database administrator experience is a plus.
• Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferred.
  
  

What We Can Offer You

This is a role that will offer you the opportunity to build an in-depth knowledge of the Legal, Regulatory Strategy & Policy, and the Group Decision Making & Governance Office organizational units. Every day there will be new business challenges that will help you develop new skills that can drive your career.

We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

By joining Citi Belfast, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources
  
  

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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Job Family Group:

Risk Management

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Job Family:

Business Risk & Control

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Time Type:

Full time

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