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The Institutional Clients Group (ICG) Financial Planning and Analysis team supplies the President and CEO of the business, CFO and other senior management with analysis and insight into ICGinancial results and projections. Through this analysis, the team facilitates decision making at a senior level to drive performance in each of ICGroducts, regions and functions and also for use with external analysts and investors. Deliverables include, but are
not limited to, monthly performance analyses, target setting and forward-looking analytics for a variety of internal and external stakeholders. The team also manages the annual budget, quarterly outlooks and forecasts, and the CCAR process to drive the long term performance of the franchise. The Finance organization drives the planning and analytics for acquisitions, divestitures, investment initiatives, re-engineering programs, cost of credit trends and net interest margin. ICG FP&Aompensation and Headcount Analytics Lead Analyst will be part of a high-caliber team supporting senior management through focus on Compensation and Headcount. ICG is committed to achieving a best in class compensation ratio. This position will be help drive that effort by partnering with various businesses and functional units to collect, analyze and forecast headcount data to ensure ICG achieves its targets.
Responsibilities Include: - Lead the analysis of Headcount and Compensation for the ICG businesses across the actuals and planning dimensions, namely: Earnings, Outlooks and the, Annual Plan.
- Prepare monthly headcount and compensation reviews in partnership with the product finance teams, business teams and human resources.
- Help design predictive models used to forecast headcount and compensation impacts.
- Assist with the implementation of the Global incentive compensation and award amortization simplification project.
- Work with colleagues across the organization (Finance, Human Resources and the Business) to gather insight regarding headcount and Compensation drivers and enhance forward looking analytics.
- Help drive execution of firm-wide work force management strategies through analytics and Citi systems (CHAT & RM&S).
- Create executive level program summaries and provide early indications of areas needing greater management focus.
- Prepare various ad-hoc requests on themes that arise at senior managementequest and/or through proactive research of potential issues.
- Work with various corporate teams (Human Resources, Productivity and GPOs) to achieve firm wide expense goals.
- Partner with a global team of analysts both onshore and offshore (Mumbai, Costa Rica) to drive efficiencies and enhance analytical prowess.
Qualifications - Bachelorsgree in Economics, Finance, Accounting or related discipline.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant Finance/Accounting/Business experience in Financial Services.
- Broad and deep understanding of accounting principles, investment, capital markets, trading, accrual products and corporate finance and balance sheet concepts.
- Superb presentation skills; the ability to translate complex financial schedules into meaningful presentations is critical; demonstrated analytical skills including the ability to synthesize quantitative and qualitative data to draw conclusions and drive decision making.
- Strong interpersonal skills. Must have a balance of assertiveness and discretion to be a credible and sought after resource.
- Must have the confidence to stand up to pressure and the credibility to influence others.
- Demonstrated skills and ability to handle multiple projects and deadlines.
- Flexibility to be effective and persuasive with all levels of management.
- Level-headed in a crisis.
- Strong ability to build key relationships with senior finance and other business executives.
- Must be able to present technical matters in a way that is meaningful to the audience.
- Highly motivated, participative team player with a significant change agent, leadership mentality.
