Avp - Wholesale Lending

Job Title: AVP - Wholesale Lending
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:

- Role involves a very high degree of engagement with multiple stakeholders, business partners, across different business functions and groups while building and maintaining relationships with Leaders and their teams
- Support continuous improvement of the operational process and the development of Best Practice. Suggesting ideas to improve systems and processes where necessary and evaluate the benefits and risks of such proposals
- Ensuring all activities & duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-wide risk management framework & internal policies

What will you be doing?
- Support migration from ACBS to LIQ
- Ensure that key KPI metrics and KRI’s metrics are on track
- Act as SME-Proactively contribute to team performance through maintaining a flexible approach to tasks, providing input to continuous improvement and being receptive to change support Audit activities, external controls & checks using comprehensive knowledge of Lending processes, products and activities
- Ensure the team is fully trained in control awareness and assign control responsibilities accordingly
- Ensure all remedial actions resulting from risk incidents mitigate the risk identified, dates are agreed in line with the risk involved and there is early escalation to OR&C of any items requiring extended deadlines
- Look to continuously improve the control environment, user experience and automation
- Actively refer to process and procedures written to aid training and Best Practice
- Demonstrate pro-active approach to risk by ensuring all risk (actual and potential) is remedied upon identification.

What we’re looking for:

- Preferably a qualified MBA with minimum 10 years of experience
- Strong control awareness
- Confident and assertive manner
- Complaints management experience
- Experience dealing with senior stakeholders
- Knowledge of quality assurance, control and monitoring
- Project management experience (Prince2 qualifications desirable)
- Strong communication skills
- Excellent relationship management skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Excel & Microsoft word

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Previous experience in IB Lending Operations
- Good knowledge on Payments, Reconciliation, ACBS, LIQ and Facility Agreements
- Good influencing and negotiation skills and excellent communication and interpersonal skills

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 and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.

Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.

Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our