Avp - Equity Valuations

Job Title AVP - Equity 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.
If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
Within the Counterparty Risk Trading team (XVAs), the role would involve:

- Calibrating/Building Credit / Yield curves
- Bid /Offer reserve calculations
- Prudential valuation Adjustments
- IPV for Credit/Rates Products -some products include bonds, Interest Rate Swaps, Swaptions, Cross Currency Swaps, Inflation-Swaps, Total Return Swaps and Collateralized Derivative products.

What will you be doing?
- Curve building for major currencies. Calculate FVA, PVA as part of IPV process.
- Independent price verification for XVAs, various cash and derivative products.
- Calculation of various fair value adjustments when required
- Full ownership of the month end valuation production cycle:

- Preparation process from a logistic, process & IT point of view:

- Generation of IPV variances, valuation uncertainty, reserves
- Analysis / commenting of results
- Escalation of valuation issues
- Communicating/reporting IPV results to finance management, trading desks and external stakeholders (auditors, regulators), via the production of the monthly IPV reporting pack and communication in relevant meetings
- Work with peers across PC-Valuation team to help establish best practice guidelines and ensure these guidelines are well-communicated and adhered to.
- 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:

- Proactive change champion who looks to develop and embed best practice.
- Strong communicator (written and interpersonal) with an understanding of senior management perspective.
- Confident and assertive with the ability to negotiate and influence constructively across teams and geographies.
- Capable reviewer of meeting materials and commentary, with a high level of attention to detail.

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Advanced degrees, CFA, FRM would also be preferable.
- Numerate.
- Strong organisational skills and structured approach.
- Strong control focus

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