---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-014780"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "C"
cik: "0000831001"
company_name: "CITIGROUP INC"
filed_at: "2025-02-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-26T18:14:47.356669+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Citigroup appoints Nicole Giles as CAO and Controller; $13.7M in replacement equity

## Summary
- Nicole Giles, 53, named Chief Accounting Officer effective Feb 21, 2025, and Controller immediately.
- Giles joins from J.P. Morgan, where she served as CFO of Commercial & Investment Banking.
- Base salary of $500,000/year; receives ~$13.7M in replacement deferred equity/cash vesting through Jan 2029.
- Giles replaces Robert Walsh (interim CAO) and Patrick Scally (interim Controller) effective Feb 21, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-014780
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: C
- cik: 0000831001
- company_name: CITIGROUP INC
- filed_at: 2025-02-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/831001/000110465925014780/0001104659-25-014780-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/831001/000110465925014780/c-20250213x8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Nicole Giles was appointed as Chief Accounting Officer at CITIGROUP INC.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: On February 13, 2025, Nicole Giles was appointed Chief Accounting Officer of Citigroup Inc. (Citi), effective as of February 21, 2025, and Controller of Citi, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/831001/000110465925014780/0001104659-25-014780-index.htm
- Executive change
  Robert Walsh departed as Interim Chief Accounting Officer at CITIGROUP INC.
  - Action: step down
  - Role: Interim Chief Accounting Officer
  source text: Ms. Giles will replace Robert Walsh, who will step down as Citi’s interim Chief Accounting Officer, effective as of February 21, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/831001/000110465925014780/0001104659-25-014780-index.htm

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