Assistant Vice President - Product Control

Join Barclays as an Assistant Vice President Product Control, where the role is that of controllers who are tasked with ensuring correctness and reporting of balance sheet and P&L for relevant entities. It would involve month end ledger activities, analysis of balance sheet and P&L accounts and relevant inputs for various reporting including preparing Stat accounts for entities and corresponding audit. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it.

To be successful in this role, you should have below skills:

• Finance/Accounting qualification/degree, CA preferable but not compulsory.
• Good financial acumen, accounting, and reporting skills.
• Ability to understand and analyse financial information, including balance sheet and P&L .
• Basic knowledge of IFRS9 and Financial instruments is a plus.

Some other highly valued skills may include below:

• Willingness to simplify process, building controls and to manage risk within the team.
• Be Accountable, operate independently and resolve issues.
• Good communication, attitude, and intent to learn.
• Excellent excel skills and ability to handle large sets of data and quick learner of financial systems such as SAP, Hyperion, Alteryx, etc.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based out of Chennai.

Purpose of the role

To oversee the financial aspects of trading activities, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the bank's trading book, maintenance of compliance with regulatory requirements, and provision of insights into trading performance.  

Accountabilities

• Reconciliation of daily profit and loss (P&L) figures for trading desks to ensure they align with the valued positions in the trading book, investigating and resolving discrepancies between P&L figures to ensure they reflect the true economic value of the trading portfolio.
• Support the identification, assessment, and mitigation of trading risks, and report on these financial risks to senior colleagues.
• Maintenance and analysis of the bank’s trading data, ensuring its accuracy, completeness and consistency, and provision of insights to traders and senior colleagues on trading performance.
• Preparation and submission of regulatory reports to authorities, and provision of support to external audits including addressing auditor queries and ensuring trading activities are appropriately reflected in financial statements.
• Effective communication of complex financial information to traders, risk professionals, senior colleagues, and external stakeholders.
• Cross functional collaboration to ensure a coordinated approach to trading activities.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.