The following job is no longer available:
Head of Taxonomy Design and Delivery at Citi

Head of Taxonomy Design and Delivery at Citi

Posted 2 April by eFinancialCareers
Ended
Competitive salary
London , South East England
Permanent, full-time
Be one of the first ten applicants
View all jobs
Description of the Organization

The Enterprise Excellence team is a group within the Operations and Technology (O&T) that designs solutions to enhance transparency; empowers Operations and Functions to improve processes; and evolves the organization through continuous improvement and simplification. The organization is responsible for defining, deploying, and driving alignment and progress against a firm-wide framework that reduces operational risk, standardizes workforce optimization, and improves process health. Augmenting the team and the organization with a professional experienced in designing and implementing process and activity led frameworks, taxonomies, and information intelligence as well as proficiency in running large operations and or functions is a critical to successfully bridge the gap between framework, methodology and practical implementation.

The Head of Taxonomy and Delivery manages multiple teams of senior professionals through other senior managers. The job requires a broad and comprehensive understanding of the different systems, theories, and practices relevant to a function as well as practical experience of multiple business cycles. In-depth knowledge of the industry and direct competitors' products/services is also necessary to contribute to the commercial objectives of the business. Requires thorough understanding of strategic direction of the function within the business, combined with a solid conceptual/practical grounding in both the function and/ or area of expertise. Excellent communication skills required to influence a wide range of audiences. The job is likely to be involved in both internal and external negotiations which will have a major impact on the area managed, and possibly on other related areas and organization. Develops medium- to long-term plans and executes functional strategies for a large/complex country, cluster of countries, or business requiring coordination and integration across units. Provides input into strategic decisions affecting job family or function within a region or business. Full management responsibility of multiple teams, including management of people, budget, and planning. Has authority to negotiate and make independent decisions on issues/activities that have critical impact or influence on company revenues, capital, or business operations. Typically, a direct report to an EB role and sits on the highest functional leadership team within a region, job function, or global business.

Responsibilities:
• Sets challenging productivity goals and works closely with senior management and their teams to ensure these goals are met. Partner with Business, Function or Region leaders to optimize business models, simplify organizational structures, and create industrial-strength franchise processes, all while building capabilities and driving sustainable improvements in real productivity across the business value chain. Look to embed capabilities and continuous improvement relating to productivity to become part of the management framework across the company. Responsible for partnering with businesses on designing and implementing several large-scale productivity efforts to achieve meaningful improvements in productivity and efficiency, improve the company's risk and controls, as well as create a more dynamic and engaging client experience.
• Develop methodologies and approaches that relate to some of the primary productivity strategies being applied across the company.
• Business Model Optimization - Design strategies to fundamentally redesign the operating models of businesses that are not achieving target returns, carefully considering products, client segmentation, delivery, service requirements, and which resources are required to deliver a distinctive client experience.
• Organizational Productivity - Apply consistent design principles to make organizational processes, decision rights and structures simpler, more balanced, and meritocratic.
• Process Productivity - Design approaches to create simple, globally common, lean, and digitally-enabled processes for targeted franchise activities that drive the greatest value.
• Lead multiple teams comprised of business leaders, business project team members and productivity team members to drive large-scale productivity improvements and achieve sustainable efficiencies, improvements in resource allocation, resource productivity, while strengthening risk and controls and client experience.
• Partner with senior business leaders to drive large and complex assignments that require cross-functional cooperation.
• Create and drive inspiring and collaborative productivity capability building programs globally through in-person and digital training formats, digital communities, social media and partnership in leadership development programs.
• Demonstrate thought leadership in presentations to the Citi Board, Management Committee, Operating Committee, and other senior leadership forums.
• 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, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
• Design, develop and maintain EE activity taxonomy with required hierarchy to support franchise and business outcomes (MTP reporting, Process Ownership requirements, Productivity requirements, Process Re-engineering, Benefit tracking)
• Where directed, partner with Business Architecture to align and integrate process, function, and activity taxonomies to deliver unified and simplified tooling and reporting.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their information needs and requirements, utilize input to design and deliver strategy for integration of data, technology, and reporting strategies.
• Work closely with content creators and information architects to ensure the effective implementation and maintenance of taxonomies and hierarchies.
• Develop prioritization methodologies for delivery of required integrated taxonomy in line with franchise and business outcomes.
• Where appropriate create and maintain documentation, including taxonomy schemas, data models, and metadata standards.
• Conduct user testing and gather feedback to continuously improve the usability and effectiveness of taxonomies, hierarchies, headcount surveys, risk metric allocations and MI/BI dashboards.
• Provide guidance and support to teams and individuals in the use and application of taxonom

Reference: 52375365

Please note Reed.co.uk does not communicate with candidates via Whatsapp, and we will never ask you to provide your bank, passport or driving licence details during the application process. To stay safe in your job search and flexible work, we recommend visiting JobsAware, a non-profit, joint industry and law enforcement organisation working to combat labour market abuse. Visit the JobsAware website for information and free expert advice for safer work.

Report this job

Not quite what you are looking for? Try these similar searches