Treasury Operations Analyst

Step into the role of a Treasury Operations Analyst at Barclays, where you'll play a critical role in ensuring seamless execution of treasury activities, maintaining liquidity controls, and supporting financial stability across the organization. As part of the Treasury Operations team, you will be responsible for processing and monitoring cash and liquidity transactions, reconciling accounts, and ensuring adherence to internal controls and regulatory requirements. With competitive benefits and strong opportunities for career growth, Barclays offers an excellent platform to build a long-term career within Treasury and financial operations.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role such as:

• Understanding of Treasury Operations concepts, including cash and liquidity management, funding processes, nostro/vostro accounts, and settlement workflows.

• Ability to analyze transactional and reconciliation data, identify breaks or discrepancies, and escalate potential risks impacting financial accuracy or liquidity positions.

• Perform daily cash and liquidity monitoring activities

• Investigate and resolve reconciliation breaks

• Ensure timely settlement of treasury transactions

• Support internal and external audits

• Maintain strong control standards and documentation

Desirable skill set:

• Capability to review and validate treasury transactions and reconciliations, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timely resolution of breaks while minimizing operational risk.

• Strong stakeholder communication skills, including the ability to liaise with front office, finance, technology, and external counterparties to resolve issues and ensure smooth operational flow.

• Risk and controls mindset, ensuring adherence to control frameworks and audit requirements.

• Change and transformation awareness, supporting process improvements and automation initiatives.

• Business acumen and strategic thinking, understanding how treasury operations impact broader financial and liquidity objectives.

• Digital and technology proficiency, including familiarity with treasury systems, reconciliation tools, and data platforms.

• Job-specific technical skills, aligned to treasury processes, settlement cycles, and financial controls.

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

This role is based out of Chennai.

Purpose of the role

To support business areas with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution. 

Accountabilities

• Support various business areas with day-to-day initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate operational processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations in operational processes.
• Development and implementation of operational procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on operational performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in banking operations.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.