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Primary Location: Costa Rica Education: Bachelor’s Degree Job Function: Finance Schedule: Full-time Shift: Day Job Employee Status: Regular Travel Time: Yes, 10 % of the Time Job ID: 17077555 Description Working Context: As part of the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team at the Costa Rica Analytical Center, this role gives you the opportunity to provide insight and analytics to Citi’s CEO, CFO and senior management with key information needed to make strategic, operational, and tactical decisions. With approximately 110,000 direct employees in 96 countries, Operations & Technology plays a central role in driving value for Citi and its clients. O&T provides the foundation that enables Citi to achieve its day-to-day operational and its long-term growth goals. O&T provides a variety of services to support Citi’s business, including the following: • Global technology infrastructure • Management of Operations and Technology vendors • Payment processing & cash management • Shared service centers & procurement • Customer contact centers • Software & application development • Information security & business resiliency • Real estate management The O&T organization is fully aligned with Citi’s businesses and regions to ensure integrated support and continuity of operations. This alignment of O&T with the businesses strengthens accountability between the client-facing businesses and their support functions, executing against the same priorities across Citi, resulting in the achievement of efficiencies and scale. Job Purpose: If you are a person who has a desire to learn, have intellectual curiosity and good knowledge in accounting, economics, banking and finance, this position will give you a valuable opportunity to be continuously learning about the business, the industry and its macroeconomic environment. Also, you will be developing the ability to identify and evaluate key elements of multiple dimensions and perspectives impacting performance. The main objective is to support the overall financial integrity of planning and monthly analysis of Gross expenses for EO&T – mostly supporting on global basis needs. The role includes partnership with LFOs to accurately achieve budget targets on annual basis and also the controlling of the governance process for Corporation’s records i.e., Month End tracking, Outlook/Plan and MOR (Monthly Operating Review). Qualifications Knowledge/Experience/ Skills: • Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Industrial Engineer or a related field with at least 6-10 years of experience, and at least 2-4 years of Planning and Analysis experience • Understanding of Banking & Finance products and markets • Strong financial analysis foundation creating forecasts and models • Keen interest in business and economic environment • Bilingual: English and Spanish. Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills. Portuguese is a plus • Medium-Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills • Applies project management skills • Be attention to detail oriented • Ability to collaborate within a team while being able to work independently as an individual contributor • Strong analytical skills, intellectual curiosity • Ability to question status quo and identify opportunities to reengineer/streamline processes • Developed communication, diplomacy & presentation skills • Ability to partner with senior stakeholders across businesses and geographies • Show initiative/proactivity to solve problems independently and have some latitude to solve complex situations. • Ability to anticipate questions and be prepared to answer them • Ability to prioritize and organize work as needed, being able to delegate work to peers • Ability to work in an ambiguous environment and embrace the changes • Able to multitask and comfort with manipulating data, adaptability and flexibility Key Responsibilities: • Develop effective and efficient operating model with onshore FP&A teams to smoothly migrate activities into the site • Develop analytical support working with local FP&A teams and their business partners • Apply analytical thinking and knowledge of data analysis tools/methodologies when interpreting information and results • Integrate subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area • Understand how the work impacts the overall organization and bank strategies to make judgments and recommendations based on the analysis of factual information • Work on Ad-hoc request based on the business necessity. Specific activities include: o Analysis of key management review decks for Regions & Products o Participation in time critical activities for FP&A teams o Conducting monthly and quarterly reporting. However, focus of the team will be addressing ad hoc strategic issues that are complementary to regular Planning and Analysis processes o Development of materials for review with Business o Participation in forward looking activities including annual budgeting and monthly estimate process • Break down information in a systematic and communicable manner • Apply in-depth disciplinary knowledge to contribute to the development of new techniques, models and the improvement of processes and work-flow for the area while providing value added perspectives or advice • Drive standardization of activities including the identification of productivity and efficiency • Support reengineering projects to improve productivity, improve controls and quality of key activities • Ensure there is a strong culture of high integrity, ethics and meritocracy • Provides informal guidance or on-the-job-training to team members • Moderate but direct impact through close contact with the businesses’ core activities. Quality and timeliness of service provided will affect the effectiveness of own team and other closely related teams.

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