AVP - STandI Recovery Resolution Planning

Barclays; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking an AVP in Chennai to lead ViR Recovery and Resolution planning, working in the Valuations in Resolution team. You will maintain BAU valuation controls, coordinate governance, and collaborate with Finance, Treasury, Risk, and Cost stakeholders.

The role requires strong financial control knowledge, excellent communication, and ability to influence senior stakeholders. Based in Chennai, it offers broad exposure to strategic regulatory initiatives within ViR.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of financial control and accounting concepts.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders across diverse areas.

Responsibilities

• Maintain ViR financial control capabilities, including governance and process docs.
• Lead ViR financial control testing, data sourcing, and senior stakeholder updates.
• Serve as Financial Control SME across ViR valuations.
• Coordinate ViR project management, governance forums and regulatory submissions.
• Deliver advanced model analytics and lifecycle management for forecasting and BAU models.
• Enhance controls through automation and improved analytics.

Skills

Financial control concepts

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Job description

Job Description:

Join Barclays as AVP - ST&I Recovery Resolution planning, where you'll play a pivotal role as part of the Valuations in Resolution (ViR) team which maintains BAU Valuation capabilities for a resolution scenario. Your role will provide the opportunity to work with a wide set of stakeholders across Finance, Treasury, Risk, Cost, amongst others

To Be Successful In This Role, You Should Have

• Maintenance of Financial Control specific ViR capabilities, including process documentation, controls and governance framework.
• Lead and coordinate ViR Financial Control testing activities, including sourcing data from multiple teams, documenting outcomes and presenting outputs to senior stakeholders.
• Act as the Financial Control SME across multiple ViR valuations.
• Coordinate project management aspects of ViR, such as tracking delivery, providing management updates, running governance forums and supporting regulatory submissions.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Good understanding of Financial control or technical concepts in accounting.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to build relationships with a large set of stakeholders across multiple areas.

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 will be based in our Chennai office.

Purpose of the role

To develop strategic infrastructure requirements, onboard current model suite & new quantitative model methodologies, redevelop models based on monitoring, IVU feedback and business changes and perform validation process.

Accountabilities

• Delivery of advanced model analytics, improve stability and bring consistency in calculation approach.
• Leading technical engagements with QA and IVU for strategic redevelopment project on behalf of FTC.
• Provision of model execution, output analysis and lifecycle management capabilities across use cases for both forecasting and BAU models.
• Implementation of process improvements through enhanced controls, automation and improved analytics.
• Delivery of advanced model analytics (Recalibration, Sensitivity, root cause analysis etc.).
• Controls and testing: Addressing execution issues with IT and QA, Perform UAT as part of model product ionisation.
• Cataloguing of issues, potential improvement for model redevelopment, authoring technical documentation with QA.

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.