AVP - CFR CCO - eTrading

Join us as an "AVP - CFR CCO - eTrading" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Risk and Control, Trading and Regulatory domain, as well as job-specific skillsets.

To be successful as an "AVP - CFR CCO - eTrading", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Extensive proven experience in Operational Risk and Controls, Project management
• Prior experience with Markets front office trading businesses, including an understanding of trade / transactional data.
• Basic Project Management skills
• Strong Excel skills including extensive experience in managing large quantities of data, pivots, formulas, vlookup etc.
• Experience of working in or within a Control type role / team and ability to demonstrate a risk management mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal Communication.
• Able to demonstrate experience of coordinating and supporting Stakeholders.
• Experience of working on the design and implementation of controls improvement initiatives.
• Experience of reviewing of policy & standards, preparing gap analysis, and delivering actions to complete.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or other equivalent qualifications
• 3+ years’ experience
• Ability to work independently on multiple projects/reports simultaneously.
• Analytical skills
• Eye for detail (access to large databases)
• Knowledge in investment banking/capital markets

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Working knowledge and practical experience of the regulations and standards of relevant industry bodies and organisations.
• Experience of working with other Control and three lines of defence teams to share ideas, best practices and ensure consistency of experience across Businesses and Risks
• Experience in Data Analytics/ Data Science in Risk and Control space.
• Front Office Risk and Control experience preferred.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle, including experience with the Agile development
• Knowledge in MS Excel, MS Access, Python, SQL, VBA

This role will be based out of Pune

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.

Accountabilities

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.