Director, Head of India CALM

Title: Director, Head of CALM India

We are creating a new director level role in the Treasury Capital and Leverage Management (CALM) team based in India which will be functionally responsible for the CALM team based in India as well as responsible for the production of capital forecasting and analytics. The role will sit on the Head of CALM’s management team to provide direct connectively across regions and report to the Head of Capital Planning and Stress testing in undertaking responsibilities relating to capital planning and stress testing. The role will also form apart of the India Treasury Leadership and contribute to the growth and development initiatives for the wider India Treasury team.

Specific responsibilities:

Responsible functionally for the CALM India team including line management of India based members of the capital regulation and subsidiary management and ICAAP and ILAAP teamsResponsible for production and analysis of capital plans including:

• End-to-end production of all capital plans (outlook, MTP, IST, BCST) for Group and SSEs
• End-to-end production of regulatory reporting and internal reporting including monitoring of all capital metrics including double leverage, for Group and SSEs
• Back-testing of plans, variance analysis, and management information covering the key drivers of changes in metrics
• Ensuring controls around production are appropriately designed and operated and that systems are appropriately developed and maintained at all times
• Delivering process improvements across capital planning (including management actions)
• Sensitivity analysis to support an understanding of our vulnerabilities, the accuracy of our forecasting, and the setting of risk appetite
• Establish and maintain a bottom up process for collation of risks and opportunities from input owners and aggregate/categorise these  
• Maintenance of process, procedure, and control documentation as it relates to relevant parts of the capital management framework and standards

Purpose of the role

To optimise the bank's capital structure to support its growth objectives, manage risk exposure, and comply with regulatory requirements by analysis of bank's capital position, development of capital allocation strategies, and ensuring that the bank maintains adequate capital levels under various economic scenarios.  

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of strategies to manage the bank's capital position, including setting of capital targets, development of capital plans, and monitoring of capital adequacy.
• Optimisation of the bank's capital structure to support the bank's growth and profitability objectives, including management of the bank's exposure to regulatory capital requirements.
• Allocation of capital to business units and projects based on risk-adjusted returns and other financial metrics.
• Preparation and provision of regular reports on the bank's capital position, capital allocation decisions, and stress testing results to senior colleagues, risk committees, and regulatory authorities, and effective communication of capital management strategies and risk considerations to relevant stakeholders.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

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.