Ccr Hotline Avp

Job Title CCR Hotline AVP
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:
Risk is responsible for sanctioning and monitoring credit exposures to Barclays counterparties. The Risk Information Services (RIS) Counterparty Credit Risk team is primarily responsible for ensuring adequate monitoring and control of credit exposures arising from trading activities in Barclays. The team is comprised of Risk managers who act as an interface between Front Office functions and Risk counterparty credit sanctioning areas. RIS also provide a credit control function which is responsible for limit monitoring, excess/exposure management and providing credit clearance for flow derivative products.

What will you be doing?
- Responsible for ensuring that the team deliverables are of the impeccable standard expected.
- Ensure individuals are meeting their SLAs, delivered products are of a high quality and that resources are allocated optimally.
- Support internal business processes are continually improved, collaboration among Risk teams is maximised and control gaps are identified and closed.
- Regularly meet with stakeholders, seek feedback from clients and provide information to management.
- Comfortable explaining team performance as they will risk trends.
- Responsible for Team governance, representing the Team at relevant Credit Risk forums and ensuring that both issues and achievements are shared with the management team and escalated where necessary.
- Project work and systems testing
- Understand the risks arising from the different products and the methodology used by the systems to calculate the risk numbers.
- Support the transition of the Hotline function to US.

What we’re looking for:

- Excellent performance in a business or numerate degree, or equivalent
- Knowledge of wide range of financial products, including all derivatives (Interest Rate, FX, Equity and Commodity), exchange trading, Securities Financing Transactions.
- Flexible, excellent communicator, be able to build wide and strong networks with key stakeholders and beyond.
- Good understanding of credit risk concepts and bond markets

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Knowledge of financial risk management is preferred and specifically counterparty credit risk management
- Knowledge in Deal Authorization/pre deal checks/Counterparty Limit monitoring and Excess Management
- Experience of credit risk management and control systems
- A working knowledge of or desire to learn VBA & SQL is preferable
- Experience of working directly with commercial traders and sales people

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 ho