Product Control Credit Analyst

Barclays; Chennai; On-site; INR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm in Chennai is seeking a Product Control Credit Analyst. This role involves reconciling profit and loss figures, analyzing trading data, and supporting risk assessments. The ideal candidate should be a qualified accountant with excellent communication skills and experience with MS Office. This full-time position emphasizes collaboration across functions in a dynamic banking environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with MS Office toolkit (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access Database).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings.
• Ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile daily profit and loss figures for trading desks.
• Support the identification and mitigation of trading risks.
• Maintain and analyze trading data for accuracy and insights.

Skills

MS Office toolkit proficiency

Excellent communication skills

Strong control awareness

Analytical skills

Confident and assertive manner

Education

Qualified accountant

CFA / master's in finance / financial engineering

Job description

Overview

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Join us as an Product Control Credit Analyst at Barclays, where you\'ll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You\'ll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. At Barclays, we don\'t just anticipate the future - we\'re creating it.

Location: Chennai.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• Experience with MS Office toolkit (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access Database, etc.).
• Qualified accountant.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings; ability to interact with the region and UK/US as part of a global team (written and verbal).
• Strong control awareness – ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns and to streamline processes in an effective and efficient manner.
• Ability to break down problems into component parts and resolve them; attention to detail and analytical!
• Confident and assertive manner.
• CFA / master\'s in finance / financial engineering would be an advantage.
• Audit exposure in large financial institutions / banks preferred.

Analyst Expectations

• Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard, driving continuous improvement.
• In-depth technical knowledge and experience in the assigned area of expertise; thorough understanding of underlying principles.
• Lead and supervise a team or develop technical expertise in the work area as appropriate.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours (for leaders): Listen, Energise, Align, Develop others; or for individual contributors, develop technical expertise and act as an advisor.
• Collaborate with other functions and business areas; take ownership for end results and manage risk and strengthening controls.
• Maintain understanding of how sub-functions integrate with the function and organisational products, services, and processes.
• Make evaluative judgments, resolve problems with applicable precedents, and communicate complex information to stakeholders.
• Act as a point of contact for stakeholders outside the immediate function and build a network of contacts.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Finance and Sales

Industries

• Banking and Financial Services