Avp - Pc Valuations

Job Title: AVP - PC Valuations
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.

Hybrid Working

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
What will you be doing?
- Be a part of the Valuation Control team in Glasgow covering Equities/Credit/Macro/Cross Markets/Treasury:

- Full ownership of Intramonth price testing to consensus, exchange, broker, or other data of pricing inputs and model outputs for fair value positions across asset classes.
- Liaising with product control, risk management and quantitative departments on valuation and modelling issues.
- Discussion, reporting and escalation of price testing results with front office and senior management.
- Significant involvement in regional and global ad hoc projects / investigation.
- Working on creating solutions / improvements to the IPV process. This requires working with the “Change Management” team to enhance specification of technology requirements as well as assisting with testing & managing new releases.

What we’re looking for:

- 4-5 years’ experience in a Valuation Control function, Product Control Line, risk management or trading role of a top tier investment bank.
- Experience and proven track record in dealing with junior and senior members of Front office, Line Product Control, Risk management teams across various locations.
- Strong financial product knowledge along with knowledge of valuation concepts and attention to detail
- Strong interpersonal skills and stakeholder management and ability to work independently to resolve unstructured problems. Team player.
- Strong communication skills and ability to present / explain complex issues in simple terms with stakeholders from Trading, Finance, market Risk and IT across different levels.

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Proactive and assertive in identifying control or valuation concerns and driving control improvement for their area. Able to work under pressure to tight deadlines. Able to multi-task and prioritize own request.
- MSc in quantitative discipline or a similar qualification and/or professional qualification (e.g. CFA, FRM) is preferred.
- Knowledge of automation tools and coding - Python, alteyx etc

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 da