Cost Ledger

Job Title: Cost Ledger - BI In-Biz
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:

- To build and develop systems using Essbase, SAS and VBA expertise to deliver a world class, fully integrated, financial reporting, planning and analysis capability across USCB Finance

What will you be doing?
- CFO Financial Data Management
- Develop and operate processes to deliver MIS for regulatory reporting purposes.
- Engage with bank leadership team and work with stakeholders across the bank to identify and prioritize additional regulatory related MIS capability
- Setting the operational goals and direction for monthly segment level financials processes.
- Create and provide relevant artefacts to manage process in a controlled and governed manner.
- Provide coaching and institutional knowledge to all stakeholders to ensure that all relevant information is understood and explainable
- CFO Regulatory Process Improvement
- Work closely with CFO MI team and other MI stakeholders across the bank to assist with successful implementation of regulatory information requests, to include testing and data verification.
- Modify current work process to optimize capabilities and improve efficiency to support on-going analysis.
- Provides and maintains all database documentation including business requirements, work flows, standard procedures, and user guides.
- Perform special projects as directed by management
- Other ad-hoc as required

What we’re looking for:

- Business knowledge:

- Experience in production MI or development, preferably in banking
- Knowledge of banking industry
- Understanding of Finance MI tools & architecture
- Technical knowledge:

- Knowledge of SAS/SQL (familiarity with Oracle advantageous) is desirable.
- Extremely proficient with VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) particularly across the Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel and PowerPoint.
- Skills & Competencies:

- Highly motivated self-starter
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Very good communication skills, written and interpersonal, and the ability to maintain effective working relationships
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Collaborative style, able to build relationships across the Group
- Very comfortable working with systems/data
- Makes a strong, positive impact and impression
- Well-organised and resilient
- Drives to achieve stretch objectives

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Graduate or Post Graduate in Technology / Engineering
- Good understanding of finance and accounting
- Proficiency in visualisation, scoping and design of a diverse range of data needs.

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