Avp Control Testing

Job Title: AVP Control Testing - Finance Assurance
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
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:
Introduction:

- The purpose of this Finance Control role is to manage and provide the full range of control services to the Finance Function to support risk management across the Controls environment.
- To develop and maintain relationships with senior colleagues and stakeholders - with a detailed understanding of the Finance controls environment and ability to influence and oversee it.

What will you be doing?
- Support delivery of the Barclays annual Sarbanes Oxley (SOx) process and controls assurance testing for identified process areas across the group.Complete SOx and Assurance reviews and assessments of process documentation, perform design effectiveness assessments and operating effectiveness testing. This includes the identification and assessment of control issues.
- Support improvements across the SOx front to back process and wider control environment across the Bank.
- Review and monitor progress of remediation plans for SOx and Assurance related issues, including reporting to leadership.
- Ensure control frameworks are implemented and managed effectively across aligned businesses, functions and horizontals.
- Drive improved and sustainable controls culture through use of data led relevant indicators to ensure Control Forums are insightful and conversations risk focused, while also overseeing the Control Framework.
- Use Data Analytics to be able to drive enhanced testing across relevant risk parameters.
- Monitor key indictors and provide insights to leadership to oversee their risk profile. This includes analytics covering root cause analysis of issues and thematic trends, supporting the function to predict areas of risk exposure.
- Deploy knowledge and expertise to assess, predict and mitigate future risks whilst guiding the business, functions and risks on using the Control Framework in a way that allows the business to safely grow and innovate.
- Support and coordinate regulatory inputs to control reporting, briefings and relevant governance fora and act as point of coordination and syndication of Regulatory updates and engagements to ensure consistency (as required).

What we’re looking for:

- Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present credibly to senior stakeholders
- Experience in Product Control/Financial Control/Regulatory reporting and/or Auditing, preferably in Financial Services.
- Experienced in identifying, documenting, and testing controls
- Ability to understand, implement and drive improvements to a risk & control framework
- Formal Accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent).

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Strong Excel skills including extensive experience in managing large quantities of data, pivots, formulas, Vlookup.
- Experience with Data Analytics tools and technologies (such as Alteryx, Tableau etc) would be an added advantage

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 customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.

Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights