Finance Business Partner AVP

Join us as a Finance Business Partner - AVP at Barclays, where you will develop and implement the bank's financial plans and stress testing methodologies by assessing the bank's resilience under various economic scenarios. 

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

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Strong data analysis, validation, and reconciliation expertise - Demonstrated ability to work with large, complex, and partially unstructured datasets; skilled at identifying outliers, data breaks, lineage gaps, and reconciliation issues with precision and speed.

• Structured stakeholder engagement for data-driven discussions - Able to engage confidently with upstream data owners, technology partners, and business teams to clarify data inputs, validate assumptions, and resolve discrepancies through clear, evidence‑based communication.

• Critical thinking applied to data inputs - Proactively questions anomalies, challenges ambiguous inputs, and identifies gaps or control weaknesses. Strong ability to convert raw data issues into clearly articulated problem statements and actionable fixes.

• High proficiency in Excel and data structuring; strong presentation skills - Able to design clean, scalable Excel models, automate/reduce manual steps, and present insights in a clear narrative using PowerPoint - turning complex data into concise, decision‑ready visuals.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Ability to understand and simplify complex end‑to‑end processes - Comfortable working through multi‑step data pipelines and identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, eliminate manual dependencies, and strengthen controls.

• Experience with internal data systems and tooling - Prior exposure to enterprise data platforms and reporting environments (e.g., internal finance systems, data lakes, sustainable finance datasets) is highly desirable.

• Familiarity with sustainability and climate reporting is helpful but not mandatory.

• Strong understanding of banking products and financial concepts - Knowledge of lending products, sector classification, and balance sheet structures will be an advantage in interpreting data and resolving business logic queries.

This role will be based out of Chennai office.

Purpose of the role

To provide financial expertise and support to specific business units or departments within the organisation, and act as a liaison between the finance function and various business units, helping to bridge the gap between financial data and business decisions.  

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of business unit financial strategies, plans and budgets, using insights to evaluate the financial implications of strategic initiatives and recommend appropriate actions.
• Development of financial models to forecast future performance, assess investment opportunities, and evaluate financial risks for business units, and to analyse the impact of business decisions on financial performance and provision of recommendations.  .
• Cross functional collaboration to provide financial insights and guidance to business unit stakeholders.
• Identification of opportunities and implementation of financial process improvements that streamline financial operations.
• Support to business units in identification, assessment, and mitigation of financial risks, including provision of training and guidance to business units on financial risk management and compliance practices.
• Analysis and presentation of financial data to provide insights into business performance, identify trends, and support decision-making.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• 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.