Lead Finance Business Architect, Senior Vice President

Discover your future at Citi

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of approximately 219,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Do you excel at bringing clarity from ambiguity? We are building out a Business Architecture practice to guide transformational IT improvements supporting Citi's global Finance functions. The Business Architect (SVP) will leverage broad domain knowledge, deep experience influencing IT architecture change, and outstanding communication skills to articulate the comprehensive future vision of Citi's Finance functional architecture - and how AI and automation will power it tomorrow.

• Lead collaboration with Finance and Shared Services to define current and future-state business architectures anchored to business processes and functions
• Partner with data architects to influence data architecture - including Finance-wide data vision, governance, and platform direction - in support of the business architecture
• Align strategic technical investments to the target state architecture across all Finance technology partners, governing and justifying any deviations
• Develop and evangelise business architecture principles guaranteeing straight-through processing and the timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of financial reporting
• Champion Citi architecture principles and standards, counselling engineering teams on application in deliverables
• Provide early-stage architecture input to shape Book of Work scope and sequencing, and play a leading role in the Finance Tech Design Authority
• Own and govern Permit to Design / Permit to Build processes, and produce architecture strategy papers and executive investment narratives for senior Finance and Technology leadership
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritise opportunities to embed AI, ML, and GenAI within Finance processes, defining governance and control frameworks
• Lead capability mapping, maturity assessments, and heat maps informing investment prioritisation; maintain oversight of the centralised architecture knowledge repository
• Champion continuous improvement of the business architecture discipline - driving best practices, tooling, and training

Deep knowledge of FP&A (budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, close), Treasury (cash, liquidity, FX, intercompany), and Management Reporting (aggregation, allocation, multi-dimensional reporting) processes and their architectural implications

• Extensive experience in an engineering and/or architecture capacity supporting Finance or related business functions, ideally in Financial Services
• Proven track record delivering cross-functional business process improvement and enterprise-wide architecture change
• Experienced leading virtual teams in matrix environments; self-motivated and able to own initiatives end-to-end
• Outstanding communication skills enabling influence at all levels, from technical developers to the most senior executive leaders
• Methodical, detail-oriented, with deep familiarity with modern enterprise information architecture practices

Conceptual understanding of AI/ML, GenAI, and agentic automation and their applicability to Finance use cases including anomaly detection, forecasting, and regulatory reporting

Demonstrated ability to use AI tools effectively, including prompt engineering, iterative refinement, and critical evaluation of AI-generated content

Understanding of data confidentiality and responsible use obligations when leveraging AI in a regulated financial services environment

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Technology

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Enterprise Architecture & Transformation

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Full time

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Please see the requirements listed above.

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For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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