Avp - Risk Strategy

Job Title: AVP - Risk Strategy
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
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:
The purpose of the Risk Strategy team is to drive value through appropriate Risk Management of relevant credit risk analytics and strategies for the portfolios allocated.
- The role will be responsible for ensuring that we maintain effective risk oversight of 1LOD strategies, including risk & return hurdles, drive optimized strategies within approved risk appetite.
- It will involve producing necessary MI and deep-dive analysis to arrive at appropriate conclusions.
- It will be required to present these conclusions at appropriate forums.
- The role holder will need to mentor junior team members as required
- They will also need to drive a culture of continuous improvement and maintain an effective working relationship with stakeholders across functions and locations.

What will you be doing?

Provide best-in-class analytics (50%)
- Transform high-level requests into focussed and specific analysis
- Synthesise analysis results to inform business issues
- Extend/ modify analysis based on observations/ knowledge of data and limitations, and implications of results
- Present and communicate results to Senior Management and drive stakeholder discussions
- Contribute to business development activities

Stakeholder Management and Leadership (20%)

The key stakeholders of this role will be
- The other members of the CRO team
- 1LOD team
- Risk & Governance
- IVU

Mentoring (10%):

- Develop a high performing team through support / challenge / direction of junior team members
- Engage and motivate junior team members towards achieving goals.

Improve Internal Processes (10%)
- Identify new opportunities for enhancing/ streamlining services
- Formulate opportunities into proposals, share with the manager and implement

Team Player Activities (10%):

- Work effectively with peers and management team to achieve shared business objectives
- Contribute to the wider colleague agenda of the Risk Strategy India Hub

Decision-making and Problem Solving

This is a very high-skilled job. It requires understanding of the portfolio metrics, processes, and P&L.

The role will involve
- deciding appropriate data for any necessary analysis,
- deciding the appropriate analytical framework,
- extracting the necessary data,
- performing the analysis, and presenting the results to seniors within the team as well as to the wider stakeholder community

What we’re looking for:

- A degree in an analytical/business related discipline
- Ability to generate insights from data, assess the commercial / financial impact and recommend action
- Extensive experience analysing programmes through the lens of risk management
- Understanding of statistical methods to enable appropriate interpretation of results
- Comprehensive knowledge and effective use of analytical tools including SQL, SAS
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Familiarity with risk reporting and risk management models.
- Familiarity with segmentation tools and strategies - E-miner, Knowledge Studio

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Post-graduate degree
- Extensive experience analysing programmes through the lens of Cards P&L and customer metrics.
- Industry knowledge (ideally experience with major international financial services firm)
- Working knowledge of Python

Where will you be working?
Noida

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, a