Avp - Cres F&bm

Job Title: - AVP - CRES F&BM
Location: Chennai

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective
Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.

Hybrid Working

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
This role is a CRES F&BM role. Corporate Real Estate Solutions and Location Strategy is a global function that provides Real Estate services across the firm. The role is responsible for delivery and management of month end, flash reporting, billing of managed cost to businesses and end user entities, with keen focus on providing commercial insight, identifying risk, opportunities and key challenges. This role is also involved in supporting strategic decisions especially around providing inputs and insights from the consumed costs.

What will you be doing?
- Analysis and Commentary of Consumed cost base for CRES: - o MI Review and analysis
- Billing Rules Impact analysis
- Presentation pack and analysis
- Responding to Operating Units queries
- Planning / Budgeting / Forecasting - By Operating Units (Including Balance sheet)
- Analysis and Production of monthly and budget/outlook packs for Operating Units
- Outlook / Budget (Managed / Consumed / Waterfall)
- Outlook / Budget - Consumed View - Planning Tool output analysis / validation
- Budget Transfer
- CIP - CEO view
- Controllership around Consumed Cost base of CRES, including
- Billing Rule Maintenance/ Update / Reporting
- Ensure PC have proper rules attached
- Inter Group Agreement breaks - Resolution in co-ordination Billing Team
- Responding to Audit queries
- Work closely with the CRES VP, CRES Finance team (Onshore / Off shore) to deliver commercial insights
- Work closely with Cost Ledger team, CRES FBPs on the managed costs to understand movements, insights etc
- Build a strong functional relationship with Finance and non-Finance stakeholders
- Data Sourcing and Data Quality - act as a business owner to ensure timely and accurate data fed through to key stakeholders
- Planning / Budgeting / Forecasting - Data loads, extracts and MI in the PARKER planning tool
- Preparation of variance analysis; ensuring a sufficient level of understanding of the key issues driving variances to outlook, STP etc.
- Supporting various ad-hoc requests ensuring that deliverables are at high standards to provide a timely response to all queries

What we’re looking for:

- Commercially minded with proven skills and experience in Controllership
- Strong MS Excel skills - Should be familiar with advanced functions
- Strong analytical, problem solving, and decision making skills.
- Professional accountancy qualification (CA/MBA (Reputed institutes)/ACA/CIMA/CFA) or equivalent relevant experience
- Experienced at process improvement and performance management.
- Working understanding of SAP / ERP

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Understanding of APPTIO / Billing process
- Finance Business Partner with experience working in large, global organisation
- Proactive
- Shows initiative / Diligent Self Starter

Where will you be working?
Chennai

Be More at Barclays
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.

Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.

Service
We act with empathy