AVP - PC Central Controls

Barclays; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in India invites applications for AVP - PC Central Controls to perform analytical reviews of securities, fees and investment income within investment banking. You will explain P&L movements, understand business drivers and identify control gaps, based in Pune or Chennai.

The role requires strong product control experience in IB, solid knowledge of financial markets and excellent communication skills to interact with front office leaders and risk teams.

Qualifications

• Product control experience in investment banking.
• Deep knowledge of financial products and markets.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end IB processes and controls.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee reconciliation of daily P&L figures for trading desks to ensure alignment with trading book positions.
• Support identification, assessment and mitigation of trading risks and report these risks to senior colleagues.
• Maintain and analyze trading data for accuracy and provide insights to traders and senior staff.
• Prepare and submit regulatory reports and support external audits including handling auditor queries.
• Communicate complex financial information to traders, risk professionals and senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure coordinated trading activities.

Skills

Product control

Financial markets

IB processes

Communication

Time management

Education

CFA

Masters in Finance

Financial Engineering

Job description

Become part of Barclays as AVP - PC Central Controls where purpose of the role is perform Analytical review of securities, fees and investment income for investment banking business. This includes understanding the nature of each business, explaining the movements in Balance sheet/P&L, identifying the control gaps. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating.

To Be Successful, In This Role You Should Have

• Product control experience in Investment bank.
• In-depth knowledge of Financial product and markets of the relevant governance control.
• Good understanding of end-to-end processes of an IB (Investment Banking) and associated controls.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings and the ability to interact.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• CFA / Masters in Finance / Financial Engineering.
• Good control awareness and problem-solving ability.
• Ability to work independently with a spectrum of people from junior finance staff to front office business heads.
• Mature and able to negotiate through difficult situations.
• Good influencing and negotiation skills and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This role is based in our Pune/Chennai office.

Purpose of the role

To oversee the financial aspects of trading activities, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the bank's trading book, maintenance of compliance with regulatory requirements, and provision of insights into trading performance.

Accountabilities

• Reconciliation of daily profit and loss (P&L) figures for trading desks to ensure they align with the valued positions in the trading book, investigating and resolving discrepancies between P&L figures to ensure they reflect the true economic value of the trading portfolio.
• Support the identification, assessment, and mitigation of trading risks, and report on these financial risks to senior colleagues.
• Maintenance and analysis of the bank’s trading data, ensuring its accuracy, completeness and consistency, and provision of insights to traders and senior colleagues on trading performance.
• Preparation and submission of regulatory reports to authorities, and provision of support to external audits including addressing auditor queries and ensuring trading activities are appropriately reflected in financial statements.
• Effective communication of complex financial information to traders, risk professionals, senior colleagues, and external stakeholders.
• Cross functional collaboration to ensure a coordinated approach to trading activities.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc)to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.