Finance Business Architect, Senior Vice President

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.
As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.
Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.
Position Overview:
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.
Responsibilities:
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
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 evangelize 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 prioritize 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 prioritization; maintain oversight of the centralized architecture knowledge repository
Champion continuous improvement of the business architecture discipline — driving best practices, tooling, and training
Owns reference data to support consistent reporting structure
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
Finance Domain & Transformation Experience:
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
Proven experience leading Finance transformation programmes, with the ability to define target architectures and guide delivery teams through complex change including ERP migrations, ledger consolidations, and reporting modernisation
Deep familiarity with ERP platforms (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Financials), Performance Management tools (e.g., Anaplan, OneStream, SAP BPC, Oracle EPM), and cube technologies (e.g., Essbase, TM1)
Credible and influential with senior Finance SMEs, CDO and CIO stakeholders, and delivery leaders on system design, data strategy, and process change
Qualifications:
10+ years 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
AI Domain Knowledge: Conceptual understanding of AI/ML, GenAI, and agentic automation and their applicability to Finance use cases including anomaly detection, forecasting, and regulatory reporting
AI Personal Productivity: Demonstrated ability to use AI tools effectively, including prompt engineering, iterative refinement, and critical evaluation of AI-generated content
Responsible AI Use: Understanding of data confidentiality and responsible use obligations when leveraging AI in a regulated financial services environment
Education:
Bachelors/University degree, Master’s degree preferred
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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Job Family Group: Technology
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Job Family:Enterprise Architecture & Transformation
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Time Type:Full time
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Primary Location:New York New York United States
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Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:$176,720.00 - $265,080.00
In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.
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Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above.
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Other Relevant Skills Artificial Intelligence (AI), Finance, Technology Architecture.
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