Wholesale Lending Sip

Job Title: Wholesale Lending SIP - Finance SME
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.
If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
The role is based in London and working as part of a core Finance team responsible for rolling out strategic plans across BI Finance. The AVP will support VP leads both in London and India to engage in stakeholder management, analysis, design, project planning documentation and delivery, covering the whole transformation cycle of the project.

The primary focus is on implementing the Barclays’ Data Strategy for Risk, Finance and Treasury with respect to the Wholesale Lending Business Transformation, centred around the implementation of LoanIQ as the strategic Loan Servicing and Accounting sub ledger. The business growth initiative is a multi-year strategic plan that builds on the current Change/IT book of work to re-engineer architecture, improve data consistency, enhance controls and make processes more efficient.

The role will be responsible for working on the Wholesale Lending / Loan IQ programme to drive consistency across Risk, Finance and Treasury functions and move data and processes onto strategic platforms.

What will you be doing?
- Understand implications of the Wholesale Lending Data Strategy for Finance and focus on delivering near term milestones.
- Co-ordinate and plan analysis and testing tasks for one or more components of the Strategy streams and support VP leads in design, engagement and delivery.
- Work closely with VP leads to facilitate engagement with senior PMO, Finance Line and IT colleagues to plan, discuss and implement change.
- Identify issues and risks of implementing the strategy as they become apparent and present options and proposed solutions for discussion with senior stakeholders across Finance, IT and PMO.
- Utilising Agile techniques to ensure high visibility to stakeholders and continuous delivery through sprint cycles.
- Challenge IT to ensure designs are addressing the user requirements and the root cause and identifying and suggesting improvements to scope or design to add value to end user solutions.
- Work with VP leads and BI Finance stakeholders (primarily Corporate and Investment Bank areas) to ensure Loan IQ requirements are defined, understood and aligned to the broader Finance Strategy.
- Gaps and issues are escalated to appropriate governance forums for review and remediating actions executed.
- Partner with the Loan IQ delivery team to ensure requirements are aligned to the Finance strategy and prioritized by the programme.
- Execution on programme deliverables in partnership with BI Finance teams.

What we’re looking for:

- Degree educated from a top tier institution
- Qualified Accountant with a strong grasp of IFRS accounting standards
- Demonstrable experience of executing Finance change for Wholesale Lending businesses in specific context of LoanIQ as the Operational Loan Servicing and Accounting sub ledger

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Strong Product knowledge of the suite of Wholesale Lending businesses across CB & IB

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