Middle Office

**Job Title**:Middle Office - AVP

**Location: Pune**

**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 is a challenging role requiring the successful individual to partner, coordinate and drives progress across global teams and different business areas as well as partner closely with key stakeholders and colleagues around the firm. This also presents an excellent opportunity to join a market leading organisation and business area and play an active part in driving the long-term development of the function in an area that is key to the future success of the financial services sector and at the heart of industry development and regulatory focus.

**What will you be doing?**
- The first and most important responsibility of the Team Lead is supporting the team. At Barclays, we value **people** as one of our greatest assets and so investing in people is critical to our success as a Middle Office and as a Bank. Support must be provided to the team members in all BAU and personal development. Act as the immediate escalation point for BAU and take the lead in resolving any associated matters from start of day to end of day. In doing this, make time to spend time with team members to ensure constant learning and development, for BAU / issues and also pushing for their own personal development, exposure and citizenship.
- The Team Lead needs to be in office five days per working week in order to provide full team support and optimal oversight. In addition the Team Lead is expected to be in office in a timely manner to manage any start of day issues such as system failures, and unresolved issues from the previous day. It’s critical that the Team Lead is also in office for end of day in order to 1) double check and sign off all EOD processes 2) take the lead on any EOD issues to resolve and escalate effectively 3) call NYK IBMO to ensure smooth handover and answer any queries before leaving the office.
- The Team Lead is expected to have SME knowledge in every control and process and is also required to provide input to Global FX Head with NGI’s (new growth initiatives), process development work, NAPA’s etc.
- Key to the role is to understand the **products** we trade and incorporate in our controls and also 1) why we perform our controls, 2) the risk involved and 3) adding value to ensure we’re working to be continually smarter in how we perform them.
- The Team Lead is expected to perform some daily BAU tasks daily to stay fresh with processes and controls. By performing BAU daily, the Team Lead should then provide a **platform** to the junior team for any personal development and training either online or through Markets Academy. The Team Lead should actively encourage personal development by taking on BAU so that team members have the opportunity to rise, in line with the Bank’s Purpose. Suggesting courses for learning and also spending time with team members daily to constantly review processes to spot control gaps or smarter ways of performing them.
- The Team lead should not just understand our controls at a product level, but should understand them at a **process** level, i.e. the end to end and work with regional peers to align these processes globally so that we’re serving our internal clients in a structured, consistent and simplified manner.
- Maintaining, understanding and enhancing our **controls** in order to mitigate Operational risk and help to meet our regulatory requirements is paramount to this role. Understanding the control environment we work in and the risks associated with not performing our responsibili