Insight and Automation – VP

At Barclays, we don’t just anticipate the future – we’re creating it. Step into the role of an Insight and Automation  – VP and shape the future of our team function by providing centralized and consistent Management Information (MI) reporting services and Insight for controls across all business areas and functions globally. You should possess strong expertise in data analytics, MI reporting, and insight generation, with hands-on experience in AI/ML, ETL processes, and Tableau visualization. They should be skilled in working with large and unstructured datasets, creating actionable dashboards, and delivering data-driven recommendations to support business and regulatory objectives. Strong knowledge of data governance, quality management, and compliance requirements is essential, along with excellent stakeholder management, communication, and problem-solving abilities. The role also requires an individual who can drive automation, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance reporting capabilities and support strategic decision-making.

To be successful as an Insight and Automation – VP, you should have experience with:

• Graduate in any discipline with experience in controls, governance, reporting, and risk management, in financial & banking services.
• Skilled in data insight, analysis, and visualization using tools like Python, SQL, ETL, AI/Machine Learning and Deep Learning along with proficiency in MS Office. Data visualization tool – Tableau (working experience is essential), Power BI, Power Apps, etc.
• Experience working with large volume of data, unstructured data is essential.
• Comprehensive understanding of risk, governance, control frameworks, and data management principles.
• Strong experience in MI reporting and visualization tools, database management, and automation tools.
• Extensive experience in managing stakeholders, presenting to senior leaders, and providing robust solutions in a risk and control capacity within major financial organizations.

Some of Highly Valued Skills may include:

• Proficient in data crunching and analysis, utilizing various tools and techniques, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), CoPilot, etc..
• Experience as a data scientist is preferred in the past in risk and control or in a financial services organization.
• Self-starter who takes ownership, monitors progress, and provides clear scenario analysis impacts and recommendations.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvements and implements control best practices.
• Excellent skills in articulating complex issues in both business and technical language, verbally and in writing.

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.

The Location for this role in Gurgaon, IN.

Purpose of the role

To support the bank's decision-making processes by providing timely, accurate, and insightful information through designing, developing, and maintaining management reports, compelling visualisations and dashboards that effectively communicate key performance indicators (KPIs), data insights and trends across various business units. 

Accountabilities

• Design and development of comprehensive reports and dashboards utilisng best practices in data visualisation principles and design aesthetics to ensure clarity, accuracy, and accessibility.

• Design, development and implementation of automated report generation processes and visualisation methodologies for improved efficiency and timeliness. 

• Identification and analysis of business requirements to define report content and format.

• Maintenance and updating of existing reports and dashboards to reflect changing business needs, including co-ordination of reporting template releases and related administrative tasks.

• Development of robust processes & controls for collating input data, performing exploratory data analysis & data cleansing and seeking signoffs as required. 

• Engagement with stakeholders as needed to ensure up to date data is incorporated into reporting and visualisations.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.