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Citi

Runs banking and payments for global clients

Manager Strategic Transformation & Value Creation

Corporate StrategyPosted on Oct 29
Full-timeMexico City, CDMX, MexicoNo salary listedHybrid

About the Job

Requirements

  • Requires 6–10 years of project management experience, preferably in a mortgage or financial services environment.
  • PMP certification is strongly preferred; Six Sigma is a plus.
  • Ability to develop project plans and manage individual deadlines and goals.
  • Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and measurement.
  • Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions, and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root-cause analysis.
  • Ability to manage project scope by assessing requirement changes and determining and conveying their impact on budget, time, and risk.
  • Ability to manage client expectations; anticipate operational and tactical risks and track them; clarify, identify, and track requirements and issues; remove barriers; resolve minor project issues; and escalate issues to the immediate manager when required.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, Microsoft Project, Visio, and Adobe Acrobat Professional.
  • Bachelor’s/university degree required; a master’s degree is preferred.
  • Requires 7–12 years of experience in strategic consulting, corporate strategy, a transformation office, strategic FP&A, corporate finance, M&A, or corporate development.
  • Desired experience includes Big Four strategy practices, Bain, BCG, McKinsey, strategy consulting boutiques, or transformation or value offices.
  • Academic fields listed: industrial engineering, actuarial science, economics, finance, and applied mathematics. An MBA or relevant postgraduate degree is desirable.
  • Technical knowledge includes advanced financial modeling, scenario analysis, data visualization, executive storytelling, advanced PowerPoint, and advanced Excel.
  • Core competencies include strategic thinking, business judgment, stakeholder influence and management, leadership without formal authority, navigating ambiguous environments, executive communication, an owner mindset, and impact orientation.
  • Valued capabilities include formulating hypotheses and defining analysis agendas; connecting data with business decisions; converting recommendations into results; and a demonstrated record of leading initiatives with measurable impact.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a large, multifaceted project, account, or campaign, or manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Own project goals and use expertise to foster a shared sense of purpose within the project team.
  • Organize new challenges and drive business results.
  • Use best-practice project management office methodology to create a project plan that meets stakeholder and customer needs and delivers desired outcomes within budget.
  • Drive project outcomes as a representative of the business.
  • Work closely with customers, the sales team, engineering, and manufacturing to define project scope, objectives, and project-member responsibilities.
  • Prepare, maintain, and submit clear activity, progress, time-recording, and management reports.
  • Assess project risks and identify potential problems before they occur.
  • Routinely track project participants’ progress against project goals.
  • Define, teach, and enforce good project management practices, including breaking complex interdependent activities into documented, monitored, and controlled tasks and subtasks.
  • Adapt the approach to the context and constraints of each project when required.
  • Improve personal and team skills through lessons-learned reviews at project completion.
  • Recognize emerging or potential problems, bring the appropriate people together to solve them, and confirm when problems have been addressed and closed.
  • Promote partner involvement by communicating project status upward and to the client.
  • Apply lessons learned from recent projects to future projects.
  • Communicate project milestones, status updates, and existing or potential customer escalations to relevant parties.
  • Follow escalation and change-control processes proactively.
  • Own all management reports for an engagement.
  • Build effective working relationships among project stakeholders, including sponsors, users of project results, resource owners, and project team members.
  • Assess risk in business decisions, protect the firm’s reputation and assets, drive compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, follow policy, exercise sound ethical judgment, and transparently escalate, manage, and report control issues.
  • Lead strategic and financial analyses related to productivity, efficiency, and organizational transformation.
  • Identify value-creation opportunities and build business cases to support decisions.
  • Define analytical workstreams, methodologies, and working hypotheses.
  • Engage business, finance, human resources, and corporate-area leaders; facilitate alignment to implement initiatives; and influence decisions across organizational levels.
  • Design and oversee cost-optimization and productivity initiatives.
  • Evaluate execution risks, dependencies, and required organizational capabilities.
  • Monitor delivery of committed benefits and objectives.
  • Prepare materials for executive committees, senior management, and decision-making forums, and present complex recommendations clearly and persuasively.
  • Translate quantitative analyses into strategic business implications.
  • Coordinate and develop analysts and internal consultants, review and improve the quality of analyses, models, and executive materials, and promote critical thinking, analytical rigor, and results orientation.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a mortgage or financial services environment.
  • PMP certification; Six Sigma is a plus.
  • Experience at a Big Four strategy practice, Bain, BCG, McKinsey, a strategy consulting boutique, or a transformation or value office.
  • An MBA or relevant postgraduate degree.
  • Power BI, SQL, Python, and AI tools applied to strategic analysis.

About the Company

Citi

Runs banking and payments for global clients

Citi runs banking, investment and payment services for companies, governments and individuals around the world. Its global network connects institutions with local banking systems, while its US consumer business sells credit cards and deposit accounts. Corporate clients use Citi to manage cash, finance trade and raise capital, and investors use its trading, custody and wealth services to hold and manage assets. The bank earns interest on loans and fees from payments, securities transactions, financial advice and account services. Citi traces its banking roots to 1812; the Citigroup holding company was formed in 1998, and its headquarters are in New York City.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1812

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