Analyst
Barclays · Posted Nov 2
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays' trading product control function oversees the financial aspects of trading activities, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the bank's trading book and compliance with regulatory requirements. The team reconciles daily P&L, maintains and analyses trading data, prepares regulatory reports and supports external audits. This Analyst role works with traders, risk professionals and senior stakeholders across a global team, based in the Chennai/Pune office.
What you will do
- To oversee the financial aspects of trading activities, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the bank's trading book, maintenance of compliance with regulatory requirements, and provision of insights into trading performance.
- Reconciliation of daily profit and loss (P&L) figures for trading desks to ensure they align with the valued positions in the trading book, investigating and resolving discrepancies between P&L figures to ensure they 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.
- Maintenance and analysis of the bank’s trading data, ensuring its accuracy, completeness and consistency, and provision of insights to traders and senior colleagues on trading performance.
- Preparation and submission of regulatory reports to authorities, and provision of support to external audits including addressing auditor queries and ensuring trading activities are appropriately reflected in financial statements.
- Effective communication of complex financial information to traders, risk professionals, senior colleagues, and external stakeholders.
- Cross functional collaboration to ensure a coordinated approach to trading activities.
- To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Qualified Chartered Accountant.
- Experienced with MS office toolkit.
- Strong control awareness – in particular, the ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns and to streamline processes in an effective and efficient manner.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings & ability to interact with the region and UK / US as part of a global team (written and verbal).
Preferred qualifications
- Article ship / Industrial trainee in mid to large sized firms.
- Audit exposure in large financial institutions / banks preferred.
- Has the initiative and ability to break down problems into components parts and resolving them.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
Recent coverage
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