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Team/Role Overview

Regulatory Reporting Senior Analyst joining to support the BENELUX Cluster Finance with primary responsibility over Citi Netherlands business.

As a Regulatory Reporting Senior Analyst, you will play a key role in translating Citi NL’s data and business into financial and regulatory reporting while navigating the dynamic regulatory landscape in The Netherlands. In this role, you will ensure accuracy, completeness and timeliness of U.S, Local and management reporting. Take ownership for reconciliation of tax positions and including reporting to local and US authorities. You will also maintain strong control and governance framework and manage the relevant relationship with internal and external stakeholders.

What you’ll do

A hiring is to strengthen the existing Finance function and support the controls in terms of US reporting, regulatory, tax reporting as well as Management Reporting. The role will be focusing on fulfilling the control and reporting requirements for all 3 Citi entities in The Netherlands.

Strategic Financial Analysis & Performance Commentary: Lead the in-depth monthly analysis of Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet statements, identifying key trends, variances, and drivers impacting financial performance. Translate complex financial data into clear, actionable insights and strategic recommendations for senior management and business leaders, proactively highlighting opportunities for cost optimization, revenue enhancement, and balance sheet efficiency. The goal is not just to report numbers, but to tell the financial story and guide informed decision-making.

Ensuring Accounting Integrity & Global Compliance: Provide stringent oversight and validation of accounting entries and financial records generated by various operational units, ensuring accuracy and strict adherence to both local GAAP and US GAAP. This includes proactively identifying and resolving complex accounting issues, standardizing practices, and safeguarding the integrity of the financial statements.

Timely & Accurate Regulatory Submission: Orchestrate the timely and accurate submission of required financial and regulatory reports to De Nederlandsche Bank. This involves ensuring data quality and interpreting regulatory guidelines to guarantee full compliance and mitigate risks of penalties or reputational damage.

Bridging Business & Financial Insights: Act as a liaison, proactively building bridges between business operations, financial performance metrics, and regulatory reporting requirements. Translate business activities into financial outcomes, providing clear guidance to business units on the financial implications of their decisions and ensuring that financial reports accurately reflect operational realities while meeting regulatory expectations.

Proactive Tax Compliance & Optimization: Manage and ensure compliance with direct and indirect tax obligations, through timely and accurate reporting to Belastingdienst. This responsibility includes managing tax-related risks, and staying abreast of changes in tax legislation to ensure continuous compliance.

Robust Control Environment & Continuous Improvement: Implement, and continuously monitor a robust accounting administration and internal control framework. Proactively identify control gaps, recommend and implement enhancements, and drive initiatives to strengthen the overall control environment, thereby minimizing financial risks, preventing errors, and ensuring the reliability of financial data through processes and systems.

Audit Management & Policy Adherence: Lead and coordinate all aspects of internal and external audit engagements. Provide comprehensive documentation, insightful explanations, and timely responses to audit queries. Ensure complete adherence to all relevant internal policies and procedures.

Strategic Stakeholder Engagement & Influence: Cultivate and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with all internal stakeholders across Finance and various business units. Extend this relationship-building externally and other financial partners. Leverage these relationships to foster a culture of financial accountability, facilitate effective communication, and drive cross-functional initiatives that impact financial outcomes.

Efficient Offshore Operations Management: Oversee financial activities and processes handled by offshored teams. This includes setting clear performance expectations, ensuring consistent quality and adherence to service level agreements, and providing necessary training and support to maximize efficiency and accuracy across global teams.

What we’ll need from you

• Strong understanding of accounting principles
• Familiarity with financial regulatory reporting requirements.
• Knowledge of Dutch tax regulation is an advantage
• Working knowledge from preparation of annual accounts.
• Good working knowledge of local corporate tax would be an advantage.
• Good understanding of financial markets, financial products is preferred.
• Experience from liaising with external regulators and auditors.
• Experience working with offshored teams and outsourced activities.
• Knowledge of the Citi network is a plus.
• Prior experience working with Dutch central bank and Dutch tax authorities seen as advantage.
• Professional approach and excellent management, financial control and regulatory reporting skills
• Knowledge of banking products and financial instruments.
• Project management and process enhancement skills.
• Strong skills with Microsoft Office applications as well as tools such as Tableau, Oracle or PowerBI.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken). Dutch is deemed as preference.
• Qualified accountant/business manager with post qualification experience.
• Preferably Masters degree from finance or equivalent with qualified accountant certification.

What we can offer you

• Be a member of top tier Finance function in one of the world’s leading banks and business partner to country management teams gaining experience working with high performing business professionals, subject matter experts within different disciplines in finance and banking and doing it within global organization.
• As a Regulatory Reporting specialist you will get exposure and experience from broad range of business activities, while simultaneously building a strong theoretical and technical knowledge over bank products, accounting, taxation and reporting.
• Within a global organization the candidate gets to interact with finance specialists around the world daily basis, and successful and ambitious candidates can apply internally to another Citi location globally given all necessary criteria’s are met.

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed) and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits that support you (and your family) to be well, live well and save well. Discover more HERE.

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive.

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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Job Family Group:

Finance

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Job Family:

Regulatory Reporting

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Business Acumen, Change Management, Communication, Data Analysis, Financial Acumen, Internal Controls, Issue Management, Problem Solving, Regulatory Reporting.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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