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Candidate Information Pack Citigroup Global Decision Management Advanced Analytical Solutions Senior Analyst Strategic Information Solutions

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About Citi
Citi Inc. is a global diversified Financial Services holding company. The Company provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a range of financial products and services. As of December 31, 2009, Citigroup had approximately 200 million customer accounts and did business in more than 140 countries. Citigroup operates through two primary business segments: Citicorp, consisting of its Regional Consumer Banking (RCB) businesses and Institutional Clients Group (ICG), and Citi Holdings, consisting of its Brokerage and Asset Management (BAM), Local Consumer Lending (LCL), and Special Asset Pool (SAP).

About Decision Management


The Citi Decision Management team is a Global Community that objectively connects and analyzes information, to create actionable intelligence for our business leaders. It identifies fact-based opportunities for revenue growth in partnership with the businesses. The function balances customer needs, business strategy, and profit objectives using best-in-class and relevant analytic methodologies. To accomplish this, the group focuses on linkages of information, tools and analytics. Decision Management is organized uniquely, with professionals embedded in business units that possess unique market expertise, and professionals in a centralized unit that have specializations in advanced analytical solutions, quantitative solutions and information solutions. The centralized unit operates through integrated centers of excellence across the globe to ensure efficiency, scalability and leverage of best practices. Over the years, the function has demonstrated the critical need for a sound analytic and data-driven approach, across Citi's franchises, to execute strategies that will create future growth.

About Advanced Analytical Solutions


Citi Decision Management founded its Global Centre of Excellence, Advanced Analytical Solutions, in 2003. It was set up to act as a globally leveragable platform for providing high impact analytical solutions to business problems. The AAS has evolved from an initial 20 person unit in 2004 to a group currently in excess of 180 resources. Today, AAS resources are staffed in three locations: Bangalore (India), Budapest (Hungary) and in the US. The AAS sites employ highly talented professionals from the domains of business, finance, economics, statistics and technology. The AAS offers a fluid, fast paced, challenging and global work environment for professionals. The vision of the AAS is to be 'Always thought of "first" to turn business challenges into solutions. The AAS measures its success in terms of the Business Partners endorsement of the AAS's abilities at all times. The AAS partners with numerous businesses globally, across Citi including NA Cards, NA Retail Bank, EMEA Cards, APAC Cards, APAC Retail Bank, Banamex, Growth Ventures and the Right Placements Office (RPO).

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Role Outline
The Senior Analyst Strategic Information Solutions Role is based at the AAS Bangalore Center and reports into the Manager/AVP leading the team. The Senior Analyst will be a part of one of the business teams AAS partners with (NA Cards, NA Retail Bank, EMEA Cards, APAC Cards, APAC Retail Bank, Banamex, Growth Venture etc), or in a SIS Functional Role. The key requirement for the role is the ability to understand the business, develop data-driven solutions to address business problems and independently manage end-to-end project communication with business partners. The individual will possess the ability to work in teams and display a proactive learning attitude. We are looking for Self-motivated individuals who are comfortable working in bigger teams. A flexible, positive and mature mindset to deal with ambiguities of complex business problems is a must.

Job Description
Job Title: Job Family: Reports to: Location: Job Purpose Provide analytic support to the business teams, understand the business context and formulate and execute appropriate analytical approach(es) to address the business requirement. Independently manage end-to-end partner communication. Responsibilities Data Extraction and Data Manipulation: Take ownership in extracting data for the various projects. This would require an understanding of the project objectives and data requirements, working with the databases to meet the data needs for the project. Data Analysis: Undertake complex analysis to accomplish the project objective. Code, Test and Execute information systems projects. Presentation of results: The individual would be expected to independently design presentations to summarize the result of analysis. Business Knowledge: Develop an understanding of the domain/function. Manage business process (es) in the work area. The individual is expected to develop domain expertise in his/her work area. Teamwork: Develop cross-site relationships to enhance leverage of ideas. Set and manage partner expectations. Coach and mentor new hires in the team. Coach and mentor junior analysts by sharing Business, Functional and Technical expertise Communication: Independently manage end-to-end project communication across the various levels in the organization. Senior Analyst Strategic Information Solutions Manager/AVP of the Business Team or SIS Functional Team Bangalore, India

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Execute and lead business analysis projects autonomously Apply business knowledge to enhance existing processes Code, Test and Execute project requests and support ongoing business processes Timely and error-free delivery of business requests Work on multiple projects independently Participate in Periodic Meetings with Manager and Business Partners to share overall status of work, progress, issues Execute and validate existing SIS processes independently Seek synergies in activities across SIS and implement value-added enhancements to the way work is executed Extend relationship beyond peers and managers to more senior management levels Ability to interact with and present to senior management

Candidate Specification
Skills Established competency in one or more of following: SAS, SQL, UNIX, RDBMS Extensive business knowledge and relevant area expertise Technical expertise in Data Modeling or/and any Reporting technologies

Strong analytical aptitude and logical reasoning ability Strong presentation and communication skills Strong process/project management skills

Knowledge and Expertise Good knowledge of Information Systems development, with particular emphasis in the use of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Architectures.

Preferred 2-5 Yrs Experience in Financial Services/Analytics Industry With Masters degree in Information Technology / Information Systems / Computer Applications / Engineering from a premiere institute. OR BTech in Information Technology / Information Systems / Computer Applications / Engineering from a premier institute with additional 2 years of experience Understanding of the Financial Services business / Database Marketing / Data Quality

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Advanced Analytical Solutions Organizational Hierarchy


Technical Analyst Analyst Senior Analyst Principal Analyst/Manager Assistant Vice President Vice President Director Senior Director

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