Full-Time

Senior Vice President

Productivity & Transformation

Posted on 8/21/2025

Citi

Citi

10,001+ employees

Global financial services including banking, investment

Compensation Overview

$163.6k - $245.4k/yr

+ Incentive Awards + Retention Awards

New York, NY, USA

In Person

Category
Consulting (1)
Required Skills
Data Analysis
PowerPoint/Keynote/Slides
Requirements
  • At least 8 years in a major management consulting firm working within financial services industry.
  • Proven record of high performance and substantial achievements in similar past positions.
  • Prior experience managing consulting engagements and teams in the instruction, coordination, and management of activities of multiple workstream leads in creation of project artifacts.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communications with experience influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Mastery in the use of PowerPoint for development of project presentations and deliverables.
  • Deep expertise in selected areas of financial services.
  • Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier university in a STEM, business, finance, economics, accounting, or other analytical field with outstanding academic record; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
Responsibilities
  • Plan, lead, and manage all phases of engagements; drive project execution and delivery, anticipate issues and risks, develop and execute mitigation strategies.
  • Develop and maintain rigorous project plans and manage tactical project requirements including resources, relationships, and tasks.
  • Manage workstream leads and coordinate activities, dependencies, and connections of multiple-workstream engagements for senior executives and leaders throughout the organization.
  • Independently think through and structure analysis plans and drive solutions to problems through identification of initial hypotheses, and creation of frameworks and methodologies.
  • Lead the analysis of complex sets of data and business processes independently and guide, instruct, manage, and mentor experienced workstream leads.
  • Guide the team to synthesize clear findings and recommendations from complex result sets using qualitative and quantitative analysis methods.
  • Identify potential strategic and business transformational opportunities and analyzing them to determine financial and strategic impact; prioritize and develop detailed implementation plans.
  • Drive business optimization through insightful analysis (identification, sizing, execution & tracking) and create/modify/manage presentations for business transformation programs.
  • Drive the development of the best solutions and act as a key day-to-day point of communication to project sponsors and motivate them to take action.
  • Manage engagement of key stakeholders and drive adoption of recommendations and solutions.
  • Create and manage the process for creation and sharing of re-usable intellectual capital, lessons learned, and contributions of relevant content to Productivity’s knowledgebase.
  • Optimize and design business and operating models, streamline organization structures, analyze, simplify, re-design, and rationalize process models, and design governance and policy programs.
  • Develop and assess innovation opportunities, identify new sources of growth, and model new value propositions.
  • Collaborate with business and functional stakeholders to identify significant opportunities for revenue growth and cost optimization.
Desired Qualifications
  • Skilled leadership in driving sizeable engagements of large-scale transformation projects.
  • Project planning, status reporting and ongoing project management.
  • Executive-level stakeholder diplomacy, influencing, management.
  • Skilled in guiding, influencing, and convincing team members, colleagues, and stakeholders.
  • Communications, training, and change management.
  • Analysis plan and framework development and execution.
  • Hypothesis generation, data analysis, root cause identification.
  • Process analysis, rationalization, and design.
  • Business case and financial model development.
  • Initiative structuring, planning, and road-mapping.
  • Functional expertise in one or more areas of the business.

Citi provides financial services including consumer banking, credit, investment banking, and wealth management to individuals, corporations, and governments. The company operates by earning interest on loans and collecting fees for managing investments, processing trades, and facilitating cross-border transactions through its digital platforms. Unlike many local banks, Citi maintains a physical and digital presence in over 160 countries, allowing it to serve as a single partner for clients with global financial needs. Its goal is to drive growth and profitability for its clients and shareholders while supporting environmental and social sustainability initiatives.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1812

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What believers are saying

  • Investment banking fees rose 12% YoY in Q1 2026, fueled by AI-driven M&A acceleration.
  • Hired 60 managing directors from 20 rivals, boosting banking revenues 15% to $1.8bn in Q1 2026.
  • $30bn share buyback signals confidence, targeting 14-15% ROTE by 2031 post-restructuring.

What critics are saying

  • JPMorgan erodes Citi's #5 investment banking rank, diverting mandates within 12-24 months.
  • Investor backlash to 2031 ROTE target causes share underperformance versus Bank of America in 6-12 months.
  • Stripe captures cross-border volumes as Citi's tech lags low-cost alternatives in 24-36 months.

What makes Citi unique

  • Citi leads global cross-border payments, enabling near-instant transfers to Mastercard debit cards across 65 origination countries.
  • Citi expanded TTS non-interest revenue 98% YoY to $1.1bn in Q4 2024 via US dollar clearing growth.
  • Citi operates in 160 countries, serving 200 million accounts with unmatched global network scale.

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