Vice President - Portfolio Management

Embark on a transformative journey at Barclays as Vice President - Portfolio Management where you'll provide first class support to Barclays UK in continually evolving its strategy in the ever-changing digital era of banking, and to ensure prudent risk management actions are taken.At Barclays, our vision is clear –to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. Your role is tasked with assessing the underlying credit risk of existing portfolios, and ensuring the control and oversight framework adheres to the wider Barclays group policy.

To be successful in this role, you should have,

• Experience with or knowledge of, statistical analysis from either work experience or academia.

• Awareness of data extraction, manipulation, and considerations of data preparation for analytical purposes.

• Experience in supporting the design of business lending strategies to cover core decisoning requirements.

• Good understanding of governance and control principles.

• Ability to apply personal organisation and commercial acumen to multi-task and prioritise across different activities and to be comfortable with change and a dynamic workload.

Some other highly valued skills may include,

• Educated to degree level in a quantitative subject or with appropriate work experience to demonstrate a strong mathematical knowledge and understanding of the practical application of statistical modelling techniques and the management of these models.

• Effective networking skills to establish themselves as a subject matter expert and a credible participant in model projects.

• Good analytical skills, specifically the ability to digest and interpret technical material and present this to key non-technical stakeholders in a way that can be understood.

• Data extraction and manipulation skills and understanding of data issues to prepare and validate analysis.

• High-level communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

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 is based in our Noida office.

Purpose of the role

To manage and optimise the bank's overall credit risk exposure by monitoring, analysing, and reporting on the creditworthiness of its lending portfolio.

Accountabilities

• Monitoring the financial performance and risk profile of the entire lending portfolio, including individual borrowers, sectors, and geographic regions.
• Analysis of credit trends, identify early warning signs of potential borrowers' issues, and assess the impact of economic and market developments on the portfolio.
• Development and utilisation of quantitative models and risk forecasting tools to measure and predict potential credit losses.
• Performance of portfolio stress testing exercises to assess the impact of various economic and market scenarios on the portfolio's risk profile.
• Definition and setting of portfolio, segment and customer risk appetite, policy and limits. Overseeing first line execution within these parameters.

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.