Apps Support Group Manager - Jersey City, United States - Citi

Citi

Verified Company

Jersey City, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Citi Overview:

Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide.

Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

A critical enabler of Citi's mission to enable growth and economic progress is technology.

Our teams are creating innovations used across the globe - we're changing the way people bank and how the world does business.

About the Team:

SMBF Production Management:

Our Production Management team provides critical business and technical support to the Security Market Banking and Functions (SMBF); working collaboratively to ensure that our platforms and services operate for our clients, whenever they need them.

We act as highly skilled and valued partners to our businesses.

Citi's distinct global network of people, data and relationships creates a mindset that allows us to identify opportunities, manage risks and connect dots for our clients in ways that others cannot.

Our people really do make all the difference in our success. We're a forward-thinking team. We're looking for ambitious, capable professionals who thrive on collaboration and want to improve how things are done. In return, we offer rewarding work in a supportive environment, clear opportunities for progression and exciting company benefits.

Role and Position Overview:

Working as an Apps Support Group Manager, you will play an integral role in running and maintaining the production environment for the global Reconciliation platforms so that our Operations and Risk & Control users can confidently service their clients.

The role will oversee the support responsibilities as part of the reconciliation transformation program over the next three years. Accountable for management of complex/critical/large professional disciplinary areas. Leads and directs a team of professionals.

Requires a comprehensive understanding of multiple areas within a function and how they interact in order to achieve the objectives of the function.

Applies in-depth understanding of the business impact of technical contributions. Strong commercial awareness is a necessity. Generally accountable for delivery of a full range of services to one or more businesses/ geographic regions. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication may be necessary. Accountable for the end results of an area. Exercises control over resources, policy formulation and planning. Primarily affects a sub-function. Involved in short
- to medium-term planning of actions and resources for own area. Full management responsibility of a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval.

Responsibilities:

Demonstrates an indepth understanding of how apps support integrates within the overall technology function to achieve objectives; requires a good understanding of the industry.
Vendor relationship management including oversight for all offshore managed service.
Improve the service level the team provides to our end users, which includes maximizing operational efficiencies, strengthening incident management, problem management and knowledge sharing practices.
Formulate and implement a framework for managing capacity, throughput and latency.
Work with various team members on coaching them on how to maximize their potential, work better in a highly integrated team environment and focus on bringing out their strengths.
Drives continued cost reductions and efficiencies across the portfolios supported by means of Root Cause Analysis reviews, Knowledge management, Performance tuning, and user training
Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions.
Participates in business review meetings, relating technology tools strategies to business requirements.
Assures adherence to all support process and tool standards and work with Management to create new and/or enhance processes to ensure consistency and quality in "best practices" across the overall support program
Influences and negotiates with senior leaders (across functions); may communicate with external parties
Management responsibility for a team or multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminat