Bia - Avp Ops

Job Title: BIA - AVP Ops
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:
Work collaboratively with others to develop strong client relationships and support delivery of the audit plan. Assist the senior members of the audit team in delivering quality outputs to agreed timelines.

What will you be doing?

Colleague
- Own and drive personal learning to support achievement of career aspirations.
- Provide constructive feedback and evaluation to team members for audit assignments.
- Act as buddy to less experienced team members and support others to develop.
- Share knowledge with BIA colleagues and peers in the business. Be open to learn from others through feedback given to you.
- Treat all colleagues fairly, regardless of background or circumstance.
- Be comfortable to challenge others; be prepared to be challenged.

Company
- Support the Vice President in scoping the audit where necessary.
- Deliver audit work to ensure that relevant risks and controls have been identified and appropriately assessed.
- Execute and complete testing to evaluate the design and operating effectiveness of controls, documenting this understanding in the BIA audit toolkit.
- Update the Vice President and audit team with progress and observations.
- Write high quality audit observations and support the Audit Lead in writing the report.
- Provide suggestions to management for actions to address control issues identified.
- Proactively take on additional tasks as requested by Vice Presidents/Directors/Managing Directors.

Conduct
- Take into account reputation of Barclays at all times, through positive interactions and following policy and process.
- Sets an example and supports fair and ethical behaviour in all colleagues.

Customer/Client
- Build strong relationships and mutual trust with all colleagues internal (Clients, BIA CIAs/Vice Presidents/Directors/Managing Directors) and external (Regulators).
- Understand the needs of client/customer and make decisions using this knowledge.
- Discuss and agree the factual accuracy of audit observations with clients/Vice President/Director as appropriate.
- Demonstrates a good understanding of the key business drivers.

Citizenship
- Support citizenship agenda across BIA to contribute positively to the communities we operate in.

What we’re looking for:

- Chartered Accountant / Graduate with experience in risk based auditing.
- Experience in a first line role in areas like Investment Banking Operations and Corporate Banking or in auditing of Investment Banking / Corporate Banking Operations processes.
- Demonstrable Risk and Control understanding
- Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively to business stakeholders
- Practical understanding of relevant regulatory environment.
- Proven track record of high performance in previous roles.

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Knowledge of Financial Products and Services
- Experience with data analytics tools and techniques
- Relevant professional qualifications (e.g. CIA, CISA)

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 valu