Hybrid Credit Risk, Change Management & Intake, Vice President

at Citi

• Job title: Credit Risk, Change Management & Intake, Vice President
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $114,720 - $172,080 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Schaumburg, United States

About the role

• Credit Risk VP overseeing the intake and prioritization of credit risk changes in financial services. Ensuring alignment with profitability objectives and regulatory expectations while driving operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic individual contributor responsible for overseeing the intake, prioritization, and execution of credit risk–related changes.
• Ensure that all initiatives align with profitability objectives, regulatory expectations, and strong risk management disciplines.
• Drive operational excellence by managing control breaks, supporting critical business-as-usual (BAU) processes, and ensuring that changes impacting credit risk strategy are delivered with rigor, transparency, and efficiency.
• Lead the end-to-end change management lifecycle for credit risk initiatives.
• Identify, assess, and manage control breaks across credit risk processes, ensuring timely remediation.
• Support core BAU credit risk processes, ensuring accuracy, control adherence, and operational stability.
• Partner with technology, operations, risk governance, compliance, and product teams to ensure seamless delivery of credit risk changes.
• Evaluate the impact of credit risk changes, control break remediation, and BAU performance on the overall risk profile and profitability outcomes.
• Lead efforts to modernize and optimize change management and intake processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Risk Management, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in credit risk, change management, or project management roles.
• Experience managing control breaks and BAU activities within a highly regulated financial services environment.
• Strong project management skills, with experience in developing and executing detailed plans to deliver changes on time and within budget.
• Deep understanding of credit risk management, risk control frameworks, and regulatory requirements related to credit risk.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with experience working across risk, operations, technology, and compliance teams.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to evaluate the impact of credit risk changes on profitability and risk performance.
• Experience leading process improvement initiatives using methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma.

Benefits

• medical, dental & vision coverage
• 401(k)
• life, accident, and disability insurance
• wellness programs
• paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.