Planning & Stress Testing Avp

Job Title: Planning & Stress Testing AVP
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:
The purpose of this role is to support the Planning & Stress Testing (P&ST) Transformation Programme
- This role will hold responsibility for specific analysis, design and oversight elements of specific initiatives within the broader Finance Transformation program. You will be “hands on” supporting transformation activities to ensure outcomes align with finance architecture strategy
- The role will be varied, depending on the initiative and the stage in the project life cycle requiring FBA support. This will include data analysis, process assessment, and future state operating model/process design, promoting best practice design concepts and solutions
- The role will give you exposure to the forefront of finance change, and experience across the breadth of Finance and Barclays

What will you be doing?

The P&ST Business Analyst is accountable for supporting specific initiatives as part of the overall finance architecture strategy. This will include:

- Working with the FTC to understand and document current and target data flows and processes
- Translating business requirements into user stories or functional design specifications to support technology development, data and process change
- Analysing data to support data sourcing design
- Preparing topics for review with Finance, Project & Technology stakeholders
- Documenting elements in support of data taxonomy, reference data and calculations
- Design test plans and operational change controls
- Support testing execution and reporting

What we’re looking for:

- Financial services experience, within retail and/or investment banking
- Knowledge of Finance process, system and technologies
- Appreciation of data principles, including data modelling and data design
- Experience of finance transformation programs and/or system implementation programs

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Strong data manipulation skills including Excel and experience using one or more data manipulation tools (e.g. Qlikview, Business Objects, Lumira, SmartView, Hive, Python, SQL, SAS)
- Excellent PowerPoint skills
- A range of written and verbal communication skills, including influencing and negotiating with a broad set of stakeholders, often with conflicting priorities
- Academic or professional qualifications
- Finance process experience relevant to P&ST
- Technology transformation experience relevant to the role

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, a