Sme Product Owner

Job Title: PC Loan IQ Transformation
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 Treasury Transformation program is made up of Liquidity, ALM & Hedge Accounting components, focusing on a number of regulatory and transformative initiatives. The purpose of this role is to support Liquidity Transformation activities to ensure outcomes align with finance architecture strategy, driving standardisation, efficiency of operation and future state design principles. This will include data analysis, process assessment, future state operating model/process build, testing, and training.

What will you be doing?
- Understand implications of the Wholesale Lending Data Strategy for Finance and focus on delivering near term milestones.
- Co-ordinate and plan analysis and testing tasks for one or more components of the Strategy streams and support VP leads in design, engagement and delivery.
- Work closely with India/ London leads to facilitate engagement with senior PMO, Finance Line and IT colleagues to plan, discuss and implement change.
- Identify issues and risks of implementing the strategy as they become apparent and present options and proposed solutions for discussion with senior stakeholders across Finance, IT and PMO.
- Utilising Agile techniques to ensure high visibility to stakeholders and continuous delivery through sprint cycles.
- Challenge IT to ensure designs are addressing the user requirements and the root cause and identifying and suggesting improvements to scope or design to add value to end user solutions.
- Work with leads and BI Finance stakeholders (primarily Corporate and Investment Bank areas) to ensure Loan IQ requirements are defined, understood and aligned to the broader Finance Strategy.
- Gaps and issues are escalated to appropriate governance forums for review and remediating actions executed.
- Partner with the Loan IQ delivery team to ensure requirements are aligned to the Finance strategy and prioritized by the programme.
- Execution on programme deliverables in partnership with BI Finance teams.

What we’re looking for:

- Degree educated from a top tier institution
- Qualified Accountant with a strong grasp of IFRS accounting standards
- Demonstrable experience of executing Finance change for Wholesale Lending businesses in specific context of LoanIQ as the Operational Loan Servicing and Accounting sub ledger

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Strong Product knowledge of the suite of Wholesale Lending businesses across CB & IB

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 based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.