Avp Controls

To be successful in this role, you should have,
- Manage and direct team Governance and Control analysts
- Ensure team produce outputs on a regular and timely basis as agreed with stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to automate activities to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Regular interaction with stakeholders across multiple teams and levels in the organization
- Train and develop talent in the organization across technical, business and leadership.
- Interact with key stakeholders in Risk, CCO, Finance and Treasury to ensure the results produced by the team are well understood.

Some other highly values skills include,
- Data management/analysis skills, with experience in usage of widely known commercially available data processing software like Tableau, SQL, Power BI
- Team working and stakeholder management across all levels
- Clear and concise communication to present results of analyses up to level of D in the organization

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in our Noida office.

About Impairment FTC

The Impairment Finance Transaction Cycle is a new team as of Feb 19 and brings together approximately 60 colleagues from across Finance and Risk to specialise in credit risk impairment analytics and reporting.

The demands on managing credit risk continues to grow, IFRS9 has raised the level of complexity in the industry, regulators and external analysts are seeking enhanced disclosures, and our internal stakeholders require faster and deeper insights on a more frequent basis.

To help us deliver these challenging demands, our strategy is to:

- Create a global centre of excellence (Impairment FTC) specialising in impairment analytics and forecasting
- Create an agile technological infrastructure capable of delivering same day results consistently; including standardised reporting, off the shelf explain reports with automated controls, validations and exceptions management
- Invest in colleagues’ skills and on-board emerging analytical apps, to enhance and speed up our time to market
- Re-engineer our processes to better integrate with other Finance, Risk and Treasury services to: reduce manual handovers, run processes in parallel and cut bureaucracy.

Overall purpose of role

The purpose of this role is to manage a team responsible for the Governance and Control aspects of the FTC.
- Build a Governance & Control framework across both Barclays UK and Barclays International and monitor status of the control environment
- Manage Governance & Control deliverables including Sox signoff and management of Group CCO and KPMG relationships
- Ensure appropriate governance and controls are in place for all key processes.
- Manage and direct team Governance and Control analysts
- Ensure team produce outputs on a regular and timely basis as agreed with stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities to automate activities to improve efficiency and accuracy.
- Regular interaction with stakeholders across multiple teams and levels in the organisation
- Train and develop talent in the organization across technical, business and leadership.
- Interact with key stakeholders in Risk, CCO, Finance and Treasury to ensure the results produced by the team are well understood.

Key Accountabilities
- Produce regular output demonstrating the functioning of the control environment
- Maintain knowledge of current impairment policies and processes
- Build and maintain appropriate governance and controls processes
- Manage analysts in order to deliver team objectives ensuring output quality is in line with expected standards, presentation and content reviewed with senior managers

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

The main stakeholders for this position are:

- Impairment finance partners
- Risk
- Data Management
- Quantitative Analytics
- Technology
- Product teams
- Product Finance
- Treasury
- Chief Controls Office
- Take an active role in team discussions and seek to contribute to all team discussions.
- Listen to colleagues, internal clients and/or stakeholders and ensure work produced is / actions taken are in accordance with instructions received.
- Keep colleagues, clients and/or relevant third parties regularly updated as to progress on particular tasks.

Decision-making and Problem Solving
- Run the Impairment reporting governance and control process across portfolios: producing accurate and transparent reports to support senior management decision making.
- Support these exercises with a structured data flow process, following key steps:

- reconciliation analysis
- adherence to a clearly documented methodology, including list of assumptions, inputs, drivers and management adjustments/overlays
- output production, including presentation to management following robust material structure and lay-out stan