PC Prime Equities Analyst

Company: Barclays

About the Role

This role is based out of Chennai. The purpose is 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Reconciliation of daily profit and loss (P&L) figures for trading desks to ensure they align with valued positions, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• 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.
• Provision of insights to traders and senior colleagues on trading performance.
• Preparation and submission of regulatory reports to authorities.
• Provision of support to external audits, 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.
• Drive continuous improvement in prescribed activities.
• Take responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to work owned or contributed to.
• Deliver work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with the function, alongside knowledge of the organization's products, services, and processes.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organization sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and by guiding precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organization.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• MS Office toolkit
• Qualified accountant
• 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)
• Strong control awareness
• Ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns
• Ability to streamline processes in an effective and efficient manner
• Financial engineering would be an advantage
• Article ship / Industrial trainee in mid to large sized firms
• Audit exposure in large financial institutions / banks preferred

Qualifications

• In-depth technical knowledge and experience in assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• If the position has leadership responsibilities:
• Lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements, and coordinating team resources.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
• OR for an individual contributor:
• Develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Expected to demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
• Expected to demonstrate Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive.