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This Managing Director role, Global Head of Fraud Prevention, is a senior leadership position within the Enterprise Operations and Shared Services leadership team. This role is pivotal in overseeing and modernizing the firm's Fraud prevention capabilities for Institutional, Wealth and Consumer bank customers, leading a global team of over 7,000 employees across various functions and locations. The incumbent will drive a transformative digital-first strategy, ensuring industry-leading Fraud performance to safeguard the firm and its clients. This role is accountable for end-to-end Fraud prevention, detection, and mitigation, focusing on delivering customer value through automation, digitization, and frictionless experiences, while enabling product capabilities and supporting business growth sustainably. This leader will drive operational excellence, strategic transformation, and continuous innovation across the Global Fraud unit, managing complex, high-volume operations, fostering continuous improvement, and ensuring exceptional service delivery with rigorous regulatory compliance and risk management.
Job Responsibility:
Define, lead, and execute the strategic vision for Global Fraud Operations, focused on a transformative digital-first strategy that delivers industry-leading fraud performance
Drive digitization and the adoption of advanced technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, to create new business value, improve customer experience, and optimize operations
Provide end-to-end accountability to prevent, detect, and mitigate fraud across all consumer, wealth services, markets, banking, international, and all customer-facing digital platforms
Enable business growth by protecting Citi and its clients through compliance with regulatory requirements, balancing customer experience, expense management, and risk appetite
Provide direct leadership and optimize the Fraud strategies and performance of the Institutional, Consumer, Wealth, and Digital Fraud Ops teams, including First- and Third-Party Fraud, Global Analytics Modeling and Data
Oversee the management and modernization of the entire Fraud Operations function, which comprises over 7,000 employees in multiple domestic and international locations
Deliver flawless execution of daily operations, maintaining high service levels, and effective management of high-volume transactions and client interactions
Monitor and protect customer channels, securing both digital and analog platforms that are over-indexed in losses and risk
Drive relevant, actionable, and timely "all source intelligence" into decision processes to prevent, detect, and mitigate the highest priority fraud risks
Responsible for establishing, maintaining, and enforcing robust Fraud policies, practices, and prevention capabilities
Acts as subject matter expert on “Internal Fraud” and provide expert advice and guidance on methodologies for preventing, detecting, and recovering this key fraud type
Identify emerging fraud trends, vulnerabilities, and risks, and develop proactive measures to mitigate potential losses and protect customer assets
Maintain global awareness of emerging regulations related to Fraud policy and ensure Citi Fraud Prevention is adequately represented at industry forums
As first line of defense owner for Fraud risk, administers Fraud Governance model at both a regional and global basis in partnership with Operational Risk Management as second line of defense owner
Ensure proactive coordination and closure of critical fraud matters, audit findings, and independent risk review findings
Deliver outstanding customer experience by providing safe, predictable, and digitally focused experiences which improve perception and brand reputation
Spearhead initiatives focused on advanced process management, automation, and the comprehensive modernization of core operational workflows
Deliver the design and development of innovative products and solutions to effectively detect, prevent, and manage fraud
Establish a culture where employee engagement and talent development are core drivers of everything we do, enabling the attraction, development, and retention of top-tier talent
Manage multiple teams of senior professionals through other senior managers, providing full management responsibility including people, budget, and planning
Act as responsible stewards of capital through a relentless focus on expense optimization, fraud prevention, and client centric revenue generation
Collaborate effectively with key internal partners (e.g., Technology, Cyber, Finance, Legal, AML, Compliance, Internal Audit, Product Line of Businesses) and external suppliers
Requirements:
15+ years’ experience in global Fraud, operational risk, or credit risk experience. Institutional and/or Retail/Commercial Banking required
Detailed understanding of key Fraud prevention technologies required to manage across customer lifecycle: Identity Verification, Application Fraud, Authentication, Session Profiling, Transactional Profiling, Link Analysis and Fraud Case management
Knowledgeable about Fraud risks associated checking, ACH, wires, and other payment rails
Demonstrated experience in Fraud product strategy, delivery, and management, preferably within the financial services sector
Proficiency in implementing Fraud monitoring, detection, and prevention tools
Experience with authentication tools deployment
Effective relationship building, stakeholder, and third-party vendor management skills
Effective people management skills with a proven history of effective delegation, motivation, and employee and customer satisfaction
Resilience in the face of pressure and a broader understanding of intelligent risk decisions
Wider knowledge of internal Fraud risk
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to grasp complex issues related to technology and operations
Ability to develop long range plans & understanding of project /program management techniques
Ability to manage effectively in a matrixed and ambiguous environment
Demonstrated ability to successfully lead and deliver large-scale operational transformations, process re-engineering efforts, and significant automation initiatives
Solid understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements pertinent to financial operations
Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
Demonstrated ability to influence and negotiate
able to facilitate a diverse set of senior executives to drive convergence to a common set of priorities and standards across Businesses