Chief Auditor, Citigroup
Mary McNiff arguably has the most important auditing job in all of banking.
As the chief auditor at Citigroup, McNiff leads the industry’s largest auditing staff, with more than 1,800 employees scattered across dozens of countries where Citi does business.
Mary McNiff, Chief Auditor at Citigroup.
McNiff joined Citi in 2012 from Lloyds Banking Group as transformational director for internal audit, later became chief auditor of the institutional group and then left the auditing group in 2015 to become the chief administrative officer for Latin America and Mexico in 2015.
McNiff returned to auditing in early 2017 when Citi CEO Michael Corbat tapped her to succeed Mark Carawan as chief auditor after Carawan was named head of compliance. Corbat said at the time that McNiff earned the promotion by dramatically improving the controls at the company’s Citibanamex unit in Mexico, as well as at its other operations throughout Latin America.
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Among McNiff’s key initiatives has been using technology to keep pace with the…
