Avp Sox Chief Controls Office

Job Title: AVP SOx Chief Controls Office - IB
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 be within the CCO-Assurance - Control Testing function and based in Chennai. The primary purpose of this role is to lead and deliver the Treasury & IB Control Testing for Finance Assurance processes for Barclays International mainly for the Investment Bank. In addition, the role will be supporting our delivery of SOX book of work as well for Investment Bank & Treasury Function. This will include working with the Senior Management across Product Control (PC), Global Treasury and Financial Control (FC) to document their processes, assessing the design controls and perform testing of controls.

What will you be doing?
- Leading the execution of the Control Testing Plan for GFDF - Treasury & IB areas covering Treasury - Capital & Leverage Management, Liquidity Reporting, Funding, Regulatory areas, Product Control & Financial Control across BBPLC & Asia Entities - covering scoping, identification of monitoring controls, and evaluating control effectiveness etc.
- Develop strong working relationships and regularly communicate with Business unit, Global Control Testing Teams and Control Business Partner (CBP) teams.
- Execute the control testing in line with the Control Testing Methodology and other regulatory expectations and communicate accountability for continuous monitoring, reporting and management of the risk as well as maintenance of the control environment.
- Build a sustainable plan through risk assessment and continuous monitoring to support the Portfolio Lead in regular and periodic communication to Senior Stakeholder / Control Forum & Committees.
- Complete quality assurance reviews and develop standards for the oversight of identifying / moving towards monitoring controls, moving towards self-assessments, gap identification and remediation, etc.
- Demonstrate strong influencing skills to lead and manage issue discussions including engaging with Senior members within the Function.
- Work on a number of special projects in the PC, FC, and Operations space to review and challenge existing policies and procedures. Additionally, support Control Assurance Initiatives & Control Testing.

What we’re looking for:

- Post Graduate Degree / CA/CPA/ CISA with relevant experience in Public Accounting /an Audit background
- Strong organizational skills and control awareness with attention to detail. This includes clear and strong verbal & written communication skills with a track record in managing & resolving conflicts situations.
- Proven track record for managing a SOX compliance effort, in global financial services firm, from detailed scoping to documentation and gap management
- Understanding of the investment banking industry mainly related to Product Control, Finance Control and Operations.

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Knowledge and understanding of the key accounting principles under IFRS as it relates to the investment banking industry.
- Experience in a month-end or quarter-end financial close/external reporting focused reporting roles will be beneficial
- Good Analytical skills and usage of data analytics tools like Advanced Excel (Macro), Pyton, Alteryx, hypercube etc.,

Where will you be working?

Chennai

Be More at Barclays
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