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About:
Citi’s mission is to serve as a trusted partner to their clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. Their core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of their clients. They have 200 years of experience helping their clients meet the world’s toughest challenges and embrace its greatest opportunities. They are Citi, the global bank – an institution connecting millions of people across hundreds of countries and cities.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience, preferably with some experience working in an in-house legal role within financial services
- Prior experience in Legal Operations, Third Party Management, and Reporting
- Experience working in corporate legal department, law firm, financial services, consulting, technology firm or related industry
- Must have excellent skills in MS Office. Emphasis on ability to analyze large volumes of data using Excel
- Proven ability to manage complex documentation with organization and detail
- Must possess excellent interpersonal and project management skills, as well as the ability to interact and communicate effectively with Senior management
- Knowledge of legal customs and practices
- Knowledge and understanding of the financial services industry
- Bachelors/University degree, Master’s degree preferred
Responsibilities:
- Leads framework maintenance efforts, specifically those related to updates to the Third Party Management Policy and Standards.
- Implements governance, methodologies and tools required for the effective oversight of Third Party Management practices across the enterprise.
- Responsible for maintaining the Legal TP repository
- Monitors legal third party performance and compliance with Terms, Citi Standards and benchmark activities against legal industry standards.
- Drives implementation of enterprise Third Party Management controls required to be assessed as part of the Managers Control Assessment, reviews results, and determines if remediation actions are appropriate.
- Critically evaluates the design and execution of the Program, identifies potential enhancements and drives implementation of improvements initiatives to continually strengthen the Program.
- Engages with functional leadership across the firm, including Legal, Independent Compliance Risk Management, Independent Risk, and Operational Risk Management, to enforce compliance with appropriate standards outlined in the TPM Policy and Standards
- Maintains strong working relationships with key business partners throughout the organization, including leadership roles in Risk, Resource Management & Operations, Finance, IT, HR and Legal.
- Provides metrics and associated reporting as appropriate for presentation to senior managementResponsible for the performance management oversight of Legal Third Parties
- Program/project management: Lead strategic and operational legal projects and programs with on-time and on-budget results
- Standardize and automate manual processes to improve workflows, knowledge sharing and collaboration among legal team members and the business
- Collect and analyze financial and other relevant data from department tools and industry resources; help legal leaders define objectives to provide metrics and dashboards that create efficiencies and optimize time and spending; leverage data to help legal leaders make stronger business decisions.
- Work closely with other business lines (including sales, operations, IT, and finance) to assist legal leadership with aligning legal operations with business strategies, objectives, and goals.
- Manage outside counsel and other legal services vendor programs to ensure accountability and success.
- Responsible for legal support activities related to APAC legal Outsourcing
- Collaborates across control/support functions, lines of business and the legal team on programs, projects and matters of common interest to achieve coordinated and efficient process improvements and legal support solutions
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can Apply here (click here)
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