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This position is within Citi’s USCC In-Business Unsecured Lending Risk. This role will be the India Unsecured Policy lead responsible for end-to-end risk strategy and execution, including managing credit losses. You will work closely with business and risk partners to drive initiatives that deliver growth and resilient profitability for the Unsecured portfolio. You will also leverage shared functions such as collections, governance, loss forecasting, and risk systems to support business needs effectively.
Job Responsibility:
Supports the management and optimization of risk policy for a $150B+ portfolio by leveraging best practices across risk functions to ensure consistent and efficient portfolio-wide risk mitigation
Partner with central Risk functions, including Acquisition Risk, Existing Customer Management (ECM) Risk, and Strategic Initiative Risk
Lead the team in performing quantitative analyses to assess risk-adjusted return, risk segmentation, and tradeoffs in Policy Changes
Lead and develop reporting subordinates, especially around developing sound analytical approach to solve business problems
Drive innovative thinking about leveraging new tools/methods to transform the analytical capability of the organization
Understand regulatory headwinds actions and develop mitigation / opportunity strategies
Ensure simplification and standardization of the process, strategies and bring synergies across USCC
Ensure appropriate documentation of the current process to drive better productivity levels
Cross functional leadership (communication and influencing) to drive towards common goal across risk organization i.e. Credit Abuse, PQR, RAF, ROTCE, Strategic Initiatives, Independent risk
Maintain a strong culture of risk and controls in the team through various process and check points and ensure that the risk in operations is understood and controlled by the team members
Respond to effective challenge from second line
Serve as SME for audits, model use and implementation of strategies
Ensuring strategies are executed in a strong control environment
Plan and hire the right set of people, train, guide, coach, develop, appraise and reward people based on meritocracy and drive alignment between US and India leadership
Identify and develop high performers for next level jobs/ senior management positions
Requirements:
15+ years of experience in credit risk management
Experience in the financial services industry preferred
Demonstrated accountability for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/geographic regions
Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
Proven negotiation skills often used at a senior level
Demonstrated ability to synthesize, prioritize and drive results with urgency
Ability to obtain support and buy-in across a wide range of internal and external audiences
Bachelor’s/University degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, or equivalent experience
Master’s/PhD degree is a plus
Nice to have:
An experienced credit policy manager – who has the vision and can adapt to changing technology and the demands of the governance and regulation
Creative –who can take a concept and give it shape and structure. Is not afraid to ask questions and loves playing with new ideas
Has good Judgment – knows when something does not add up and is not right. Has attention to details and can get into the weeds when needed
A Leader – leads by example and is not afraid to challenge status quo. Inspires people with presence. Knows talent when they see it and will create a conducive environment to nurture and grow it