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Oak Harbor, Washington, United States

Bellingham, Washington Area

HR Compliance Control Officer supporting Citi's Global Recruitment COE through process and procedure enhancements, training/education, establishing quality and controls related to selection and assessment to meet corporate, regional and local legal/regulatory requirements. Serve as an SME regarding HR Control and Compliance aspects of recruiting. Validation of internal audit testing, analyze results to identify gap analysis metrics. Formulate process, implementation and communication strategies. Partner with all levels of Global Recruitment team and support areas to mitigate risk within the function and the firm.

Greater New York City Area

Senior Project Manager/Chief of Staff for Citi North America Recruitment. Responsible for reviewing and maintaining budget and financial expenditures. Manage efforts in improving workforce planning, headcount tracking, enhanced client and candidate experience, various other key recruitment and HR initiatives. Collaborate with Sr. Recruitment team to develop strategies to improve overall talent acquisition efforts and streamline recruitment processes and procedures. Partner with key stakeholders to coordinating projects and initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness as well as aligned strategically based on the needs of the team and the clients. Partner with legal and control and compliance to maintain recruitment process and procedure standards are aligned with legal, risk and control requirements. Analyze various reporting (financials/budgets, headcount metrics, recruitment metrics, etc.) for client groups and for recruitment/HR to identify data integrity issues and standardize reporting/metrics tracking.

New York, New York

Senior Project Manager, for NAM Citi Professional Recruiting and NAM Consumer Recruiting. Responsible coordinate and track projects from inception and make sure the projects are aligned with strategic business initiatives. Collaborate with Sr Recruiters to develop strategies to improve the overall talent acquisition efforts and streamline Recruiting processes and procedures. Manage the re-engineering efforts in workforce planning employee value proposition, candidate experience and various other key business initiatives. Partner with various stakeholders (internal/external) to gather inputs and develop objectives, projects and initiatives. Subject matter expert to provide advice/consult for the recruiting team on key systems. Analyze various reports (headcount metrics, recruiting metrics, etc.) for client groups and Recruiting to identify data integrity issues and partner with various stakeholders to establish accuracy. Partner with HR Control and Compliance to maintain recruiting process and procedure standards are aligned to risk & control and legal requirements.

Weehawken, Nj

Director/HR Project manager for UBS Wealth Management Amercias. HR Project Manager responsible for coordinate and maintain HR projects including, Compensation, Executive Promotions, Performance Management, Mobility initiatives, Talent Management, Data Management, Restructuring, etc. Collaborate with the Business Managers, HR Managers, and Financial Control team to enhance HR organizational structure. Support client/employees base of up to 7,000+ (Field and Home Offiice staff). Create ad-hoc reporting as needed for HR team and Senior Management team. Assist in streamlining and improving headcount and metrics reporting. Administer and/or coordinator training for HR Team on standard procedures, project processes, and systems.

New York, Ny

Coordinate and maintain global HR projects for ICG Operations HR (Voice of the Employee, Executive Promotions, Performance Management, Mobility initiatives, Talent Management, etc.). Collaborated with ICG Ops HR Generalist, Compensation Team, and HRIS team to enhance HR organizational structure to provide improved reporting of ICG Ops employees (17,000+). Create ad-hoc reporting as needed for HR team and ICG Ops Senior Management team. Continually assist in streamlining and improving reporting. Coordinator for HR control functions including COB, Information Security, Entitlement Reviews, Record Retention, Fraud Mgmt, Operation Risks (RCSA), and Secure Desk Space. Manage and maintain systems security access for NAM HR team (30+ employees). Troubleshoot HR systems issues with HR team.

New York, Ny

Coordinate and maintain global HR projects for GTS HR (Voice of the Employee, Executive Promotions, Performance Management, Mobility initiatives, Talent Management, etc.). Collaborated with GTS HR Generalist, Compensation Team, and HRIS team to enhance HR organizational structure to provide improved reporting of GTS employees (6,500+). Create ad-hoc reporting as needed for HR team and GTS Senior Management team. Continually assist in streamlining and improving reporting. Coordinator for HR control functions including COB, Information Security, Entitlement Reviews, Record Retention, Fraud Mgmt, Operation Risks (RCSA), and Secure Desk Space. Manage and maintain systems security access for NAM HR team (50+ employees). Troubleshoot HR systems issues with HR team.

New York, Ny

Responsible for investor relations and administration of $5.5 billion of Mutual Fund Transactions ("MFT"). Administer investor relations of over 200 current and prospective investors in 25 MFTs. Administer relations with Asset Origination Companies, Servicing Companies, printing company, banks, law firms, and rating agencies. Analyze and distribute monthly investor reporting. Assist in preparation of documentation for investor marketing of new transactions. Coordinate audits for the MFT. Process and maintain initial expenses MFT. Process and record monthly wire transfers for 10 Asset Origination Companies. Maintain filing system. Continually assist in streamlining and improving the reporting system. Train and oversee Admins in processing and distributing monthly reports to investors. Train and guide new staff members in monthly reporting and updating the information from the reports in the database systems.

New York, Ny

Processed and distributed monthly and semi-annual reports to over 40 investors in 12 Mutual Fund Transactions; Recorded and reconciled monthly bank statements; Monitored department filing system; Created and monitored new filing system for the Mutual Fund Transactions; Coordinated Due Diligence Meetings with prospective investors; Recorded data from monthly reports received from Asset Origination Companies and Servicing Companies; Coordinated semi-annual audits with outside accounting firm; Assisted in streamlining Mutual Fund reporting system; Coordinated and tested new software to enhance shipping function (UPS)

New York, Ny

Organized and monitored department’s filing system for over 150 transactions; Constructed and periodically updated departmental credit approval forms and other related documentation; Prepared and processed credit approvals and credit memos on the annual due dates for eight Portfolio Managers; Processed and recorded daily wire transfers; Prepared travel arrangements and produce expense reports for eight officers; Processed and recorded weekly payroll and attendance schedules for 35+ employees; Administered office supplies, office equipment, computer hardware and software; Composed word processing document; Administered semi-annual mass-mailings for all transactions; Coordinated system upgrade/refresh for the department, which included 70+ employees

New York, Ny

Processed department invoices; Maintained relationships with over 200 vendors; Composed month end and quarterly reports of deal related invoices; Processed and recorded weekly payroll for 125+ employees; Organized, purchased and maintained all office supplies, office equipment, computer hardware and software for the department; Produce expense reports for fifteen officers.

Ba, Business Management Finance

Majored in Business Management Finance and Minored in Human Resource Development

High School Diploma