PC Equities Analyst

About the Role

Barclays is seeking a PC Equities Analyst to join their Chennai office. This role is integral to ensuring the completeness and accuracy of financial books and records, including P&L (Profit & Loss) and Balance Sheet substantiation and reporting. You will monitor trading activity for policy compliance and provide technical and operational analysis of the business unit. This position involves close collaboration with Front Office business, Financial Control, Technical Accounting Group, PC Change Management, Technology, and other infrastructure areas.

Key Responsibilities

• Reconcile daily P&L figures for trading desks to align with valued positions, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Support the identification, assessment, and mitigation of trading risks, and report on these to senior colleagues.
• Maintain and analyze the bank’s trading data for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Provide insights to traders and senior colleagues on trading performance.
• Prepare and submit regulatory reports to authorities.
• Support external audits by addressing auditor queries.
• Communicate complex financial information to traders, risk professionals, senior colleagues, and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure a coordinated approach to trading activities.
• Drive continuous improvement in prescribed 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.
• Manage risk and strengthen controls related to your work.
• Deliver work in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.
• Build and maintain an understanding of how your sub-function integrates with the wider function and the organization's products, services, and processes.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to organizational objectives.
• Make evaluative judgments based on factual analysis, with attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions using technical experience and precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function and build a network externally.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• MS Office toolkit experience.
• Qualified accountant.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (formal and informal).
• Ability to interact with the region and UK/US as part of a global team (written and verbal).
• Strong control awareness, including identifying and escalating potential control breakdowns and streamlining processes efficiently.

Qualifications & Valued Skills

• Article ship / Industrial trainee in mid to large-sized firms.
• Audit exposure in large financial institutions / banks is preferred.

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