Wcr Stress Testing

Embark on a transformative journey as an WCR Portfolio - Stress Testing at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

Member of the ‘Risk - Centre of excellence’ in Mumbai.

Support the team to run the overall Stress testing framework working closely with all the risk pillars across Credit, Counterparty Credit, Market risk and Treasury. Drive, engage and deliver strategic, individual and operational business objectives/targets. Manage the Country stress expected loss limits and breaches with analysis and monitoring of various underlying factors.

Ensure target achievement adhering to Service Level Agreements

Coordinate with CoREs and other Risk colleagues as necessary with respect to providing relevant information related to Country Risk.

Create a control exemplary process and drive improvements and innovation

To be a successful WCR Portfolio - Stress Testing you should have experience with:

- Strong track record in risk management with a leading Corporate and/or Investment Bank (4yrs+).
- Strong verbal & written communications and power point skills.
- Experience in the Stress testing role, also preferable has working knowledge of key accountable areas
- Strong understanding of Credit/Market Risk management and various products in Banking book, Trading book and various Risk measurement and metrics.
- Highly analytical mind with attention to detail.
- Strong organisational and multitasking ability.
- Ability to work accurately and efficiently in a time pressured environment

Some other highly valued skills may include:

- Graduate (preferably with a Masters degree) with exposure to Finance, Mathematics, Economics and/or Technology
- Working knowledge of VBA, Python, SAS (or R), SQL
- Familiarity with the principles of portfolio management
- Familiarity with the calculation and monitoring of Credit Risk metrics, Economic Capital, RWA under Advanced and Standardised approaches and general Credit Risk concepts.

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, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The job location of this role is Mumbai.

**Purpose of the role**

To assess the capital requirements of the bank's credit portfolio under various economic and risk scenarios and design and execute stress testing exercises to measure the potential impact of adverse events on the bank's credit losses, risk-weighted assets, and capital adequacy

**Accountabilities**
- Development and maintenance of stress testing models and methodologies for different credit portfolio segments.
- Designing and execution of stress testing scenarios incorporating diverse macroeconomic factors, industry trends, and portfolio-specific risks.
- Analysis of the efficiency of capital allocation across different business lines and products.
- Analysis and interpretation of stress test results, including forecasting expected credit losses, risk-weighted assets, and capital needs.
- Management, and analysis of large datasets relevant to credit risk and stress testing.

**Assistant Vice President Expectations**
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which