Lead Business Analyst & PMO Lead (Data Analytics) - Vice President

Overview

Lead a data analytics team and program management office for Citi's Markets Line of Business, combining senior program management with hands-on business analysis and data analytics.

What you'll do

• Integrate subject matter and industry expertise within a defined area.
• Guide, influence and convince colleagues in other areas and occasional external entities using communication and diplomacy skills.
• Resolve occasionally complex and highly variable issues.
• Produce detailed analysis of issues where the best course of action is not evident, and recommend or take action.
• Be responsible for volume, quality, timeliness and delivery of data science projects, along with short-term planning and resource planning.
• Oversee management of people, budget and planning, including performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary action and terminations, and possibly budget approval.
• Maintain governance and accountability for all program entities, project charters, milestones, deliverables, financials and resource allocations within the enterprise Project Tracking System (PTS).
• Monitor project performance against committed milestones, project health scorecards, budget utilization and critical path dependencies; manage RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) proactively.
• Design and distribute program dashboards, Executive SteerCo packs and Key Risk/Performance Indicators (KRIs/KPIs) to Senior Managing Directors and Business Heads.
• Direct the functional design of multi-way matching engines, automated break classification models and exception triage workflows on enterprise reconciliation platforms (e.g., Internal Tools, TLM, Duco).
• Serve as strategic communication partner to senior leadership across Front/Middle Office, Product Engineering, Operations and Quantitative teams.
• Supervise, mentor and develop a team of 6–10 Business Analysts, Project Managers and Data Analysts.
• Appropriately assess risk in business decisions, drive compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and escalate and report control issues with transparency.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience.
• 6–10 years of experience using tools for analysis of large data sets.

Nice to have

• Masters degree.

Details

• Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
• Full-time role.