Barclays Hiring Analyst - Product Control (Pune) Apply Now

Purpose of the Role

This role oversees the financial side of trading activities. It ensures the accuracy and integrity of the bank's trading book, keeps the business compliant with regulatory requirements, and provides insight into trading performance.

Key Accountabilities

• Reconcile daily profit and loss (P&L) figures for trading desks against the valued positions in the trading book. Investigate and resolve discrepancies so the figures reflect the true economic value of the trading portfolio.
• Support the identification, assessment and mitigation of trading risks, and report these financial risks to senior colleagues.
• Maintain and analyse the bank's trading data, ensuring it is accurate, complete and consistent, and provide insights to traders and senior colleagues on trading performance.
• Prepare and submit regulatory reports to authorities. Support external audits by handling auditor queries and ensuring trading activities are properly reflected in financial statements.
• Communicate complex financial information clearly to traders, risk professionals, senior colleagues and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate across functions to keep trading activities coordinated.

Analyst Expectations

• Carry out prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard, consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Build in-depth technical knowledge and experience in your assigned area of expertise, with a solid grasp of its underlying principles and concepts.
• Lead and supervise a team where the role has leadership responsibilities, guiding professional development, allocating work and coordinating team resources. People Leaders are expected to model the four LEAD behaviours: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, and Develop others.
• Where you are an individual contributor, develop technical expertise in your work area and act as an advisor where appropriate.
• Influence the work of related teams and partner with other functions and business areas.
• Take responsibility for the end results of your team's operational processing and activities.
• Escalate policy or procedure breaches appropriately, and embed new policies and procedures adopted for risk mitigation.
• Manage risk and strengthen controls in the work you own or contribute to, delivering in line with relevant rules, regulations and codes of conduct.
• Build an understanding of how your sub-function fits within the wider function, and of the organisation's products, services and processes.
• Make evaluative judgements based on factual analysis, with close attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by selecting solutions based on your technical experience and precedents.
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function, and build a network of contacts inside and outside the organisation.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge and Drive.

In this role you will work with the Line PC team to keep the books and records complete and accurate. This covers P&L and balance sheet substantiation and reporting.

Skills Required

• Financial reporting expertise
• Risk management knowledge
• Basic understanding of financial markets and products
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel

Other Valued Skills

• Financial engineering
• Articleship or industrial trainee experience in mid to large sized firms
• Audit exposure in large financial institutions or banks (preferred)

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

This role will be based out of Pune and Chennai.