Barclays Hiring for Graduate Analyst Job at Chennai Full Time

About Risk

The Risk Intent is to provide world class risk management, supporting sustainable growth.

Our Intent is underpinned by the following three strategic priorities

• Protect Barclays from a volatile and weak external environment by managing risk appetite and mandate and scales at appropriate levels, and ensuring that activity across products and geographies takes into account external developments
• Streamline our risk approval and oversight processes by understanding our processes back to front, reducing delivery time and automating where possible, improve our controls through continued focus on model.

About RIS
RIS is a shared service within Barclays, focusing on the delivery and management of core quantitative risk management data. The department focuses on a number of key functions such as Regulatory and capital analysis and reporting, both for internal and external reporting purposes, to support business units across Barclays and to meet the firm’s external regulatory requirements. Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Overall purpose of role

Risk Information Systems is a team within Risk Analytics which provides both strategic and functional leadership to the reporting of capital metrics across the Barclays Group. Its core responsibilities are to:

• Ensure that Regulatory Capital Reporting develops, maintains and produces comprehensive and effective analysis and top-level reporting of Capital;
• Support the analysis required; and,
• Undertake a critical review of the material supplied by businesses within Regulatory Capital Management, and, after consultation with them, arrive at an accurate and agreed content.
• Understand, implement own funds and capital requirements for Investment Bank products and portfolios. It must specifically cover large exposures, securitisations, counterparty credit risk, wholesale credit risk, corporate bank credit risk, leverage and supervisory reporting complaint to Regulatory text part of CRR and applicable regulations for Barclays.

The role will also require the jobholder to provide SME support to change initiatives across Regulatory Capital Reporting on an adhoc basis. This will involve system understanding and programming exposure. The holder will also be responsible for operating and adhering to the control framework set by the Governance & Control Team.

Guidance will be provided so that the jobholder will broaden their knowledge of banking in general and risk management specifically.

Responsibilities of the role:

• Preparation and production of daily, monthly and quarterly reporting
• Support additional ad hoc requirements to facilitate senior management review
• Support resolution of queries from internal and external stakeholders, ensuring swift response and compliance with internal policy around the distribution of sensitive data
• Liaising with other business global areas including the Business, Risk, IT, Operations as well as across Finance (Treasury, Product Control, Statutory Reporting and Regulatory) at all seniority levels
• On-going development of new processes, controls and IT infrastructure

Key Accountabilities

• Preparation, production and consolidation of daily, monthly and quarterly reporting and the supporting packs to facilitate senior management review across Head office reporting.
• Supporting management information requirements
• Resolution of queries from internal and external stakeholders, ensuring a swift response and compliance with the internal policy around the distribution of sensitive data.
• Liaising with other global business areas including the Front Office, Risk, IT, Operations as well as across Finance (Treasury, Product Control, Statutory Reporting and Regulatory) during all reporting cycles and on demand.
• Development and maintenance of a robust reporting framework and data infrastructure to facilitate business management in an efficient and effective manner.
• Provide decision support and analytics for policy monitoring across all products and regions.
• Engage with regulators and auditors to ensure compliance and proper representation of our policies/ practices.
• Manage governance process and ensure compliance at the Local and Cluster level.
• Participate in adhoc activities for Governance and Capital advisory and STDF – by looking at cluster level reconciliation targets and various ongoing support activities.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

• Develop strong working relationships across the Cluster, Group Risk and Group Finance to ensure alignment of priorities and to influence change/ improvement.
• Establish regular communication mechanisms to facilitate sharing of best practices, alignment of practices, implementation at pace, and allocation of tactical support as needed.
  

Decision-making and Problem Solving

• Takes decisions within own area of responsibility
• Recognizes the importance of having sufficient information and seeks the same to make decisions
• Applies business knowledge and experience in taking timely decisions
• Takes decision in situations where the alternatives are not always obvious
• Identifies & assesses the magnitude of the problems
• Demonstrates a logical approach to problem solving, breaks down the complex issues & consults supervisor for further guidance
• Applies previous problem solving experiences to analyse, develops supportive data and rationale for alternative solutions

Risk and Control Objective

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards

Person Specification

• Mandatory Bachelor’s degree and pursuing Master’s degree, MBA or similar
• Passionate about data analysis and how this contributes to the business
• A self-motivated team player who is able to define structure and prioritise work for self, but who has the flexibility and capability to change priorities when circumstances dictate.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications

• Postgraduate or equivalent university degree in accounting, finance. CA/CFA or equivalent.
• Strong analytical, technical and/or statistical skills with proven ability to process large datasets into meaningful information.
• An interest in pursuing Risk management function along with Finance and inclination for analytics/data and IT systems interactions.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.