Audit Director - Technology Enterprise Resilience

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills and experience to Citi's Internal Audit Strategy, Innovation & Professional Practices team.

By joining Citi you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

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The Audit Director
- Enterprise Resilience is a senior level management position, reporting to the Chief Auditor
- Technology, Strategy & Governance, Emerging Technologies and Resilience, responsible for managing a team of audit professionals with an overall objective to strategically direct audit activities and assessments of the risk and control environment for Citi's Enterprise Resilience. This covers the identification and mapping of critical and important business services, impact tolerance setting and testing, recovery and restoration capability, third-party and intragroup dependency management, and incident and crisis management.

This role will primarily focus on resilience across Citi's global businesses and technology estate, with the overall objective of ensuring that Citi Internal Audit's approach to resilience positions Citi IA as the leading IA function in the financial services industry.

Citi IA is a dynamic global function of over 2,500 professionals located across more than 60 countries, covering Citi's global businesses and service to clients and customers through its network in 98 countries. Through a culture of continuous improvement, Citi IA is focused on maintaining its position as a best-in-class IA function and is committed to investing in people, learning and development, innovation, and methodology programs.

The Internal Audit mission is to provide independent, objective, reliable, valued and timely assurance to the Board, senior management and regulators of Citigroup and Citibank (and its subsidiaries), over the effectiveness of culture, ethical conduct, governance, risk management, and controls that mitigate current and evolving risks and to enhance the control environment. IA is a change agent within Citi to enhance the control culture of Citigroup worldwide and therefore support senior management decision making around the globe.

Citi operates in over 100 countries and provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial services and products. Citi strives to create the best outcomes for clients and customers with financial ingenuity that leads to solutions that are simple, creative, and responsive.

• Develop and maintain the Internal Audit resilience assurance strategy, ensuring coverage remains aligned to regulatory expectations, emerging risks and the firm's evolving technology landscape.
• Direct and oversee the end-to-end delivery of the Enterprise Resilience audit portfolio, ensuring all audits, thematic reviews, and continuous monitoring activities are executed with high quality, within approved budgets, and in compliance with IA methodology and professional standards.
• Act as a trusted subject matter expert on Enterprise Resilience risks and controls in financial services across the IA team.
• Partner with IA technology, cyber, third-party risk and business audit teams to scale resilience assurance across IA work programs and avoid duplicative coverage.
• Evaluate the identification of critical and important business services, the completeness and accuracy of end-to-end service mapping, and the substantiation of impact tolerances.
• Assess the design and execution of severe-but-plausible scenario testing, including the credibility of assumptions, the realism of test conditions, and the treatment of results that breach tolerance.
• Evaluate recovery and restoration capability, including disaster recovery architecture, failover and switchback testing, backup integrity, data recovery, and the ability to restore within stated tolerances.
• Assess the resilience of underlying infrastructure, including data centres, cloud platforms, network, capacity management and single points of failure, alongside concentration in providers and locations.
• Evaluate third-party and intragroup dependency management, covering criticality assessment, contractual protections, subcontracting and fourth-party visibility, exit planning and stressed exit, and…