SVP Data Scientist , Surveillance Design and Implementation
Company: Citigroup Inc.
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: May 12, 2022
Job Description:
Serves as a compliance risk officer for Independent Compliance
Risk Management (ICRM)'s Surveillance team responsible for the
design, implementation, and oversight for a suite of surveillances
designed to detect behaviors that may violate regulatory rules or
internal policies and procedures. When potentially anomalous
behavior is detected, the team is responsible for escalating the
activity and working collaboratively with partners across the first
and second lines of defense to determine the appropriate resolution
of the matter, which may include employee discipline. The ICRM
Global Surveillance platform encompasses a number of surveillance
related portfolios including trade surveillance, e-communications
and voice surveillance, employee trading, outside activities
surveillance, and information barrier surveillance.
Responsibilities:
- Creating, enhancing and implementing surveillance scenarios and
conducting surveillance reviews. Improving surveillance tools and
applications by coordinating with Information Technology on the
timely implementation of enhancements and proactively addressing
potential issues.
- Gathering, reviewing, investigating and analyzing trade data as
well as responding to regulatory inquiries from each of the major
regulatory bodies (e.g. FINRA, SEC, CFTC). The response process
includes compiling all requested documentation, analyzing the
results to identify potential issues, escalating potential risk
issues to the appropriate coverage areas and providing input on
potential corrective action plans designed to address issues that
are identified.
- Participating in ad-hoc requests, special projects and
regulatory exams directed by other organizations within the
compliance or legal departments.
- Other responsibilities include: overseeing the monitoring to
adherence to ICRM's Risk Policies and relevant procedures;
preparing, editing and maintaining Compliance program related
materials; interacting and working with other areas within Citi, as
necessary; and keeping abreast of regulatory changes, new
regulations and internal policy changes in order to further
identify new key risk areas.
- Interacting with global counterparts in regards to the
governance of their surveillance portfolio.
- Additional duties as assigned.
- 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.Qualifications:
- Expertise of Compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and
typologies
- Ability to organize workflow, ideas and materials
- Experience with drafting Business Requirement Documentation
(BRD)
- Excellent written, verbal and analytical skills
- Must be a self-starter, flexible, innovative and adaptive
- Self-motivated and detail oriented
- Advanced presentation skills with the ability to articulate
complex problems and solutions through concise and clear
messaging
- Ability to work collaboratively with regional and global
partners in other functional units; ability to navigate a complex
organization; to influence and lead people across cultures at a
senior level
- Experience in managing regulatory exams and relationships with
examiners, auditors, etc.
- Awareness of regulatory requirements including local and US
laws, international and industry standards
- Advanced knowledge in area of focusEducation:
- Bachelor's degree; experience in compliance, legal or other
control-related function in the financial services firm, regulatory
organization, or legal/consulting firm, or a combination thereof;
experience in area of focus
- Five to eight years of experience in data science, machine
learning, quantitative research, quantitative analysis, advanced
statistical methods, surveillance design, and/or data modeling
required
- Experience designing and prototyping surveillance patterns
using time series analysis, features engineering, random forest,
natural language processing, and/or advanced statistical methods
highly desirable;
- Prior experience managing and delivering surveillance projects
highly desirable
- Proficiency in programming languages and packages for data
science (e.g. Python, Scala, TensorFlow) required
- Big data and cloud computing experience highly desirable
- Assess and adapt latest trends in data science for application
within ICRM surveillance,.
- Serve as subject matter expert for strategic surveillance
design,
- Assess and advice on methodological alternatives for data
science solutions,
- Lead and mentor junior data scientists.
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Compliance and Control
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Family:Surveillance
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Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action
employer.Qualified applicants will receive consideration without
regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation,
gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a
protected veteran.Citigroup Inc. and its subsidiaries ("Citi")
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----------------------------- Effective November 1, 2021, Citi
requires that all successful applicants for positions located in
the United States or Puerto Rico be fully vaccinated against
COVID-19 as a condition of employment and provide proof of such
vaccination prior to commencement of employment.
Keywords: Citigroup Inc., Jersey City , SVP Data Scientist , Surveillance Design and Implementation, Other , Jersey City, New Jersey
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