We are looking for a talented, tech-savvy individual to join our internal consulting unit in Budapest. The Finance Regulatory Response Team has a diverse mix of developer, business analyst, finance, and risk expertise. Accordingly, we are open to considering a wide range of backgrounds, and do not expect you to be proficient in every field.

Being a quick response unit, we handle urgent and critical problems requiring a custom technical solution or subject-matter expertise. Our team members act as internal consultants, develop and reengineer processes, and introduce digital transformation where it is most needed within the EMEA Finance Controllers division. We have a strong emphasis on process engineering for the regulatory & financial reporting field.

Senior Finance Specialist

We are a strongly technical team relying on technologies such as KNIME, Python, Java, and Tableau. You do not need to be a technical expert at start but should have a willingness to learn.

What you’ll do:

• Work in cooperation with various teams across Citi’s EMEA Finance Division, external consultants, and project specialists to rationalize and automate financial and regulatory reports, internal business processes, and management information systems.
• Engagements are diverse in nature so you will have exposure to a range of professional areas within Finance. However, process engineering within the regulatory reporting space will be a recurring theme.
• This role requires hands-on technical work and problem solving, we are not only providing consulting advice, but are actually delivering solutions for our stakeholders
• In this role, you may be temporarily deployed to support reporting teams in need. In this capacity, you will be challenged to learn about new areas and to act as a generalist expert, ensuring business continuity, and coming up with process improvement ideas.
• Support change management process and participate in the onboarding of new developments for reporting teams
• You will be expected to proactively contribute to the Team’s engagements by identifying and implementing process improvement initiatives and standardization ideas that increase productivity and efficiency, while reducing process cycle times and errors
• Nobody knows everything, but you are expected to grow into a subject-matter-expert in a relevant professional area, be it in financial risk management, regulatory reporting, Basel, CRR or other aspects of the regulatory policy domain
• We are an agile, tech-savvy team, and would like you to contribute to the technical innovation effort to further improve our data management capabilities and process automation techniques

What we’ll need from you:

• This role is ideal for an individual with 5+ years of relevant experience
• Knowledge of financial markets, banking products, understanding of key concepts in finance, financial risk management (credit risk & market risk), and regulatory policy (Basel Accords, COREP, FINREP, CRR, and related topics) are considered important assets for this position
• Financial Services Industry, Consulting, or Technology background is preferred, but exceptions apply
• Experience with reporting processes, regulatory reporting, and related projects is a plus
• Advanced Excel skills with working experience in process automation is highly valued
• Programming knowledge in any leading technology such as Python or Java, and familiarity with SQL is a strong plus
• Experience with data transformation tools, and data analytics platforms such as KNIME and/or Tableau would be nice to have
• A very proactive, helpful, and problem-solving attitude is considered ideal

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