Avp - Equities Product Control

Job Title: AVP - Equities Product Control
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:
This role will hold responsibility for execution of specific initiatives as part of the broader Transformation program focussing mainly on the Accelerate the Financial Close initiative. You will be aligned to a specific Finance Transaction Cycle where you will be “hands on” in transformation activities including, planning, execution, process assessment and mapping, communications, analysis, and future state operating model/process design and execution.

What will you be doing?

The Finance SME Team Specialist is accountable for implementing specific initiatives as part of the overall FTC strategy. This includes working with various internal teams / stakeholders to deliver accurate reporting, and ensuring appropriate governance and control through execution.
- Identify opportunities to enhance the monitoring of processes to further aid future improvements;
- Perform data analysis to identify process footprints and study key performance indicators to identify improvement opportunities in the process.
- Identify key improvement opportunities in the finance process and quantify associated business benefits.
- Work closely with operational teams and SMEs to agree best fit for standard process metrics & define and deliver a data collection plan, including length of time needed to capture a representative sample
- Provide suggestions and contribute towards cost efficiency
- Contribute towards productivity improvement which will result in a cost benefit
- Introduce improvements to the way things are done
- Uses reasoning to distinguish underlying causes from symptoms
- Analyses from differing perspectives or viewpoints to fully understand complexity
- Sets relevant development challenges (such as projects) that focus on improved delivery to customers or colleagues
- On-going engagement of senior stakeholders, Business SMEs and support teams and align goals / objectives / outcomes with other project teams, line Business teams and other support teams in finance to identify opportunities to improve overall process efficiency and increase standardisation

What we’re looking for:

- Skilled in the use of data analysis and presentation software tools; able to extract and understand the underlying picture from a wealth of complex data
- Proficiency in advanced MS Excel including macros is preferred
- Understanding and experience of Product Control / Financial Control or Finance related processes
- Understanding of and exposure to project management disciplines and techniques / Full project lifecycle processes
- Ability to work in a virtual team and work without supervision for long periods of time
- Pragmatic rather than idealistic outlook
- Fluent in English (spoken and written)

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Academic and professional qualifications that may include CA / CFA / Masters in Finance / Financial Engineering would be an advantage
- Good Experience ranging with operations strategy/ line management roles in financial institutions, consulting or technology companies or programme/ change management roles in other industries
- Experience in implementing Business Process Management and associated tools
- Experience of working to tight deadlines in a fast-moving environment
- Experience in working with complex, interdependent process frameworks

Where will you be working?

Chennai

Be More at Barclays
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