Barclays Chennai Hiring Analyst - Treasury PC | ₹700,000 - ₹1,200,000

Job Description

Purpose of the role

This role involves overseeing the financial aspects of trading activities. It ensures the accuracy and integrity of the bank's trading book, maintains compliance with regulatory requirements, and provides insights into trading performance.

Accountabilities

• Reconcile daily profit and loss (P&L) figures for trading desks, ensuring alignment with valued positions in the trading book. Investigate and resolve discrepancies between P&L figures to reflect the true economic value of the trading portfolio.
• Support the identification, assessment, and mitigation of trading risks, and report on these financial risks to senior colleagues.
• Maintain and analyze the bank’s trading data, ensuring its accuracy, completeness, and consistency. Provide insights to traders and senior colleagues on trading performance.
• Prepare and submit regulatory reports to authorities. Provide support for external audits, including addressing auditor queries and ensuring trading activities are appropriately reflected in financial statements.
• Effectively communicate complex financial information to traders, risk professionals, senior colleagues, and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure a coordinated approach to trading activities.

Analyst Expectations

• Impact the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Take responsibility for the end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision-making within your area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to your work. Deliver your work in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how your sub-function integrates with the broader function, alongside knowledge of the organization's products, services, and processes.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to achieving the objectives of the organization's sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgments 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, guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organization.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, which serve as our moral compass. They are also expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset, which involves empowering, challenging, and driving our behavior.

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Required Skills

• Experienced with MS Office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database etc.).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings. Ability to interact with regional and UK/US teams as part of a global team (written and verbal).
• Strong control awareness, particularly the ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns and to streamline processes effectively and efficiently.
• Possess the initiative and ability to break down problems into component parts and resolve them.
• Attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Confident and assertive manner.

Highly Valued Skills

• CFA/Master’s in Finance/Financial Engineering would be an advantage.
• Article ship/Industrial trainee experience in mid to large-sized firms.
• Audit exposure in large financial institutions/banks preferred.

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