Avp

Job Title : 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

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:
Introduction:

- Produce daily MI including commentaries, investigate Flash/Formal differences
- Ensure the maintenance of a strong internal control environment. Review key controls: Fx exposure, Approximate bookings, IUR, IaRs, Volcker excesses, STRs, SAP adjustment summary, OAOL

What will you be doing?
- Investigate Flash vs. Formal differences have necessary commentary
- Ensure there is no significant unexplained P&L reported by PC Line teams
- Ensure MBR pack schedules are produced on timely basis with appropriate comments so as to facilitate review and sign off by PC SMT
- Ensure to pose challenge to PC Line teams in getting appropriate commentary in case of open breaks
- Develop a sound understanding of daily processes - “the what”, “the why” and “the how”.
- Attend to ad hoc queries from the traders and other infrastructure partners relating to trading revenue and Balance Sheet.

Weekly / Monthly Responsibilities
- Balance Sheet control and commentary, Month End adjustments and Balance Sheet Substantiation
- Perform key weekly & monthly reporting to senior management.
- Attend to queries from internal and external audit and reviews and maintain key stroke documentations for key PC processes, risk assessment and SOX documentation.

Controls
- Ensure that a strong internal control environment is maintained at all times. Review key controls: Fx exposure, Approximate bookings, IUR, IaRs, Volcker excesses, STRs, SAP adjustment summary, OAOL
- Identify and drive process re-engineering and constantly challenge current processes for improvement and efficiency
- Raise any control weaknesses to the team. Brainstorm with the team to come up with an action plan.

Personal Traits
- Good financial product knowledge
- Appreciation and understanding of financial markets
- Experienced with MS office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database etc)
- Be Self Motivated and Proactive to take initiative and improve the end product.
- Work well within the team and portray high standards of team work.
- Ask questions and challenge status quo. Do not assume that every current practice is the best practice. Question and satisfy yourself with the reasons for doing certain things in a certain way.
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills

What we’re looking for:

- Qualified accountant / CIMA or MBA from reputed institutes [post qualification exp of 5 yrs+]
- Good financial product knowledge
- Appreciation and understanding of financial markets.
- Experienced with MS office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database etc).
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings & ability to interact with the region and UK / US as part of a global team (written and verbal) Strong control awareness - in particular, the ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns and to streamline processes in an effective and efficient manner.
- Has the initiative and ability to break down problems into components parts and resolving them
- Attention to detail and analytical
- Confident and assertive manner
- Displays integrity, initiative and commitment through interactions with colleagues and clients
- Work well in a team and maintains good relations with team members
- Ability to work with a spectrum of people and work well in a team
- Proactive. Displays enthusiasm, initiative and diligence
- Opportunity to be groomed to be future leaders, where there will be expended remit for future growth.
- Works well in a team with high standards for team work

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Experienced with MS office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database etc)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings & ability to interact with the region and UK / US as part of a global team (written and verbal) Strong control awareness - in particular, the ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns and to streamline processes in an effective and efficient manner.
- Has the initiative and ability to break down problems into components parts and resolving them
- Attention to detail and analytical
- Confident and assertive manner
- CA/CFA / Masters in Finance / Financial Engineering would be an advantage
- Articleship / Industrial trainee in mid to large sized firms
- Audit exposure in