Banking Lending Controller

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a leading financial institution? Then bring your skills and experience to Citi’s Financial Controller Team.

Team/Role Overview:

Financial Controllers is the largest department in Finance primarily responsible for controlling daily profit and loss reporting, balance sheet and expenses for all business. Banking covers Investment Banking (Debt, Equity underwriting and M&A) and Corporate Lending products supporting Corporate and Commercial Banking clients. We work closely across functions on a daily basis (Front Desk, Business Management, Risk Management, Operations, and other areas of Finance) and develop a deep understanding of the products offered, along with the associated market risks and accounting complexities.

The Banking Lending Controller Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for ensuring the completeness, accuracy and integrity of the bank's books and records in coordination with the Finance team. The overall objective of this role is to control and support data integrity and general ledger reconciliation, insight and analysis around Product P&L and balance sheet reporting.

Key responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the end-to-end Banking Controllers processes, including daily P&L and Balance sheet preparation and related activities. Provide analytical insight around drivers of the financials
• Use effective escalation to ensure issues are highlighted in a timely manner. Focus on recurring issues and drive through enhancement projects and systems fixes
• Support standardization efforts and work on strategic as well as ad-hoc projects to improve Citi’s Product Control system infrastructure and to implement process improvement ideas
• Develop an enquiring and questioning mind-set
• Exploit a collaborative and motivating attitude to join forces with colleagues for excellent results
• Benefit from your organized personality, attention to details and independent working style
• use your experience and knowledge to drive and contribute to outstanding team performance
• Monitor, assess, analyze, and evaluate processes and data
• Identify process gaps and control issues
• Interpret data, identify inconsistencies through research and recommend solutions based on analysis

Skills and qualifications:

• 1 - 2 years of relevant professional experience
• Good command of spoken and written English
• Confident analytical and communication skills
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills. (Training will be provided on other in-house and industry standard systems used in this position.)
• Knowledge of or demonstrated interest in financial products is an advantage.

We are a development-focused organization. The above qualifications and skills are considered as primary assets for the position – but we do not pursue perfectionism: we look for capable colleagues and help them grow to excellence in their fields and positions.

What we can offer you:

By joining Citi Poland, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive compensation package and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well:

• Paid Parental Leave Program (maternity and paternity leave); A supportive workplace for professionals returning to the office from childcare leave
• Award-winning pension plan,​ multisport, holiday allowance
• Private Medical Care Program, Group Life Insurance
• Consideration for annual discretionary bonus
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to a wide variety of learning and development programs, online course libraries and upskilling platforms, such as Udemy and Degreed
• Flexible work arrangements to support you in managing work - life balance
• Career progression opportunities across geographies and business lines; Mentoring Programs
• Socially active employee communities with diverse networking opportunities

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.