Avp

Job Title: AVP
Location: Noida

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

Structured hybrid role:
Introduction:
Support the Senior Business Manager in delivering the day to day agenda for the AE.
Act as SME and own the workforce data for the TC, being the go-to contact for workforce data enquiries
and responding to challenges of the data.
Proactively create reporting artefacts and packs for key meetings such as hiring calls, and month-end
Reporting.
Working in partnership with the Workforce COE, provide forward looking and insightful projections for
MTP, Outlook, Transfers, scenario analytics & SI portfolio affordability shape
Support the Senior Business Manager and TC AE on Location strategy analysis and reporting, Hiring
approvals, Vacancy review & challenge
Provide Strategic support to the Business Manager not limited to QBRs, MBRs, TC Weekly’s, Monthly
offsite facilitation, D&I people pillar, Service Management, SI portfolio management, Vendor support,
ensuring COE partners provide services as required
Track and report on capacity creation, Cost allocation understanding and risks & opportunities
Work in partnership with the Finance Business Partner to ensure full alignment, accuracy and
ownership of the financials

What will you be doing?

Workforce Management
- Completion of detailed headcount budgeting and forecasting including MTP, RAF, High Level Shape and Outlooks, ensuring aligned to Target Operating Model and through partnership with FBP alignment to cost shape
- Proactively identify risks and opportunities and trends within the workforce outlooks, providing a view on how these can be managed
- Be consulted on workforce change programs by HR or Project teams to provide headcount information and impact on workforce shape
- Partner with FBPs and the Business to interlock on capacity creation targets and track progress throughout the year
- Provide approvals and oversight on organisational changes, monitoring against strategic TOM alignment, and ensuring workforce is aligned correctly from formal hierarchy perspective (e.g. tax implication in India) - Partner with FBPs on budget transfers, interlocking headcount transfers with counterpart BMs and providing latest WF impact to FBPs for cost impact and AEs for information and sign off

Strategy, Insights & Leadership Support
- Partner TC Lead and their SLT on the development of their workforce strategy: assess and challenge reasonableness of Business Cases to ensure plans are achievable
- Provide insight to AE’s on current WF position and then help drive the resource strategy implementation (Payroll Mix, EOY targets, location strategy, Diversity, Furloughs, Insourcing, vendor analysis)
- Communicate with Business and HR on Leadership programs (eg Aspire), challenging nominations to ensure aligned with Talent conversations and facilitating AE approval prior to submission
- Produce and deliver the Transaction Cycle Weekly’s, QBRs, MBRs etc. - Adhoc activity to support Executive level requests

Governance & Control
- Facilitate Requirements for external Governance Forums (Council, COO ExCo, Group ExCo, Board etc.) and maintenance of all SMR documentation
- Facilitate delivery of TC Weekly’s, QBR’s, MBR’s, COO ExCo, Cost Board - Plan, organize and facilitate offsites - Partner with FBPs to drive annual refresh of cost allocation keys
- Oversight and approval of all hiring requests in the relevant hiring systems (e.g. BRAINS) confirming budget is in place and in line with location strategy
- Interlock with AE list of colleagues to go through in-role promotions cycles and ensure roles are loaded and approved in Brains
- Proactively interlock with Talent Acquisition on hiring plans/demand
- Co-ordination and interlock of Early Careers plans for AE and Leadership team, working with Early Careers team to confirm feasibility of requests - Periodic review and challenge vacancies / hiring plans based on locations / aging / affordability etc.

What we’re looking for:

- Experience in a Business Management function with an excellent understanding of working with leaders on a day-to-day basis.
- Attention to detail and strong organisational skills a must. Ability to balance multiple critical requests from various stakeholders with outstanding precision
- Strong Communication skills across a variety of forums and mediums. Proven ability to distil information into key messages and deliver succinctly according to audience
- CA, MBA i