Senior Vice President, Client Onboarding

Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hybrid

Oct. 08, 2026

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The Senior Vice President, Client Onboarding (Internal: Client Onboarding Group Mgr
-C14) is accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals. Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function. Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions.

Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary. Accountable for the end results of an area. Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning. Primarily affects a sub-function. Involved in short- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area. Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.

Responsibilities:

• Manages teams with respect to on-time and proper execution of tasks, internal trainings, control and reporting to Senior Management. Executes on all people leadership functions, managing absence and holiday leave, remuneration etc. Drives continuous improvement and project implementation for the team and whole unit. Ensures cohesion between different internal functions and teams. Drives the ongoing development, growth and stability of the organization.
• Provides oversight of all processes, procedures and control functions of activities as well as taking care of on-going acquaintance of staff with new procedures, rules and regulations , external rules or with changes occurring in binding internal regulations, procedures, bank regulations and external rules binding staff in managed organizational structures.
• Ensures effective operational risk management, compliance of processes with regulations - ensuring system monitoring risk including quality assurance matrices and entitlement reviews. Identifying risks within the managed processes and undertaking initiatives associated with prevention. Ensures management of tools in accordance with binding regulations. Ensures proper functioning of system for monitoring quality indicators, ensuring that corrective undertakings are implemented on time and in proper manner.
  
  Ensures high levels of productivity across all teams. Agree, adhere to, and exceed service level agreements that appropriately support our business partners. Ensures high quality of output across teams. Drives improving quality processes, reduce operational costs including overtime, increasing effectiveness. Ensures efficient management information systems and capacity plans. Drives partnership with all Citi units and persons as described in operational procedures, execution of communication with internal and external customers within day-to-day processes.
• Ensures effective management of initiatives and projects across internal teams, including documentation and tests. Manages migrations of new processes, functions into the team, whilst ensuring risk analysis…