Finance Technology Business Architect, Vice President

Are you passionate about translating complex finance and technology challenges into clear, actionable architecture? We are building out a Business Architecture practice to guide transformational IT improvements supporting Citi's global Finance functions. The Technology Business Architect will apply solid functional domain knowledge and architecture experience to help define and evolve Citi’s Finance functional architecture, contributing to current-state documentation and future-state design with a growing focus on AI and automation.

• Assists in defining strategic direction and setting business architecture standards covering Enterprise Business Architecture & Transformation applications across Citi businesses, products, functions and locations
• Participates in assessing and incorporating ongoing business and regulatory needs into the Enterprise Business Architecture & Transformation business architecture
• Collaborate with Finance and Shared Services to document current and future-state business architectures, anchored to business processes and functions
• Work alongside data architects to map data dependencies and support alignment of data architecture — including Finance-wide data vision, governance, and platform direction — with business architecture objectives
• Engage technical partners to align investments to target state architecture, flagging material deviations as appropriate
• Contribute to business architecture principles supporting straight-through processing and the timeliness, completeness, and accuracy of financial reporting
• Apply and promote Citi architecture principles, providing guidance to engineering teams on practical application
• Contribute to the Finance Tech Design Authority and support
  
  Permit to Design / Permit to Build governance processes
• Assist in identifying and evaluating opportunities to embed AI, ML, and GenAI within Finance processes, supporting appropriate governance frameworks
• Contribute to capability mapping, maturity assessments, and the centralized architecture knowledge repository
• Support continuous improvement of the business architecture discipline through adoption of best practices, tooling, and training
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency

• Working knowledge ofFP&A(budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, close),Treasury(cash, liquidity, FX, intercompany), and Management Reporting(aggregation, allocation, multi-dimensional reporting) processes and their data dependencies
• Experience supporting Finance transformation programs, with an understanding of how ERP migrations, ledger consolidations, and reporting modernization impact architecture and downstream platforms
• Familiarity withERP platforms(e.g., SAP S/4
  
  HANA, Oracle Financials),Performance Management tools(e.g., Anaplan, One Stream, SAP BPC, Oracle EPM), andcube technologies(e.g., Essbase, TM1)
• Appreciation of data quality, reconciliation, and control challenges in large-scale Finance environments, and ability to engage Finance SMEs and technology teams on system and process change

• 6+ yearsin an engineering and/or architecture capacity supporting Finance or related business functions
• Track record of contributing to cross-functional business process improvement and enterprise architecture change
• Comfortable in matrix environments; self-motivated,…