Analyst Macro Product Control

About the Role

Join Barclays as an Analyst Macro Product Control. This role is based in our Chennai/Pune office.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitoring trading activity for compliance with various related policies.
• Providing management with technical and operational analysis of the business unit.
• Working closely with Front Office business, Financial Control, Technical Accounting Group, PC Change Management, Technology, and other infrastructure areas.
• Reconciliation of daily profit and loss (P&L) figures for trading desks.
• Investigating and resolving discrepancies between P&L figures.
• Support the identification, assessment, and mitigation of trading risks.
• Report on financial risks to senior colleagues.
• Maintenance and analysis of the bank’s trading data.
• 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.
• 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.
• Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• 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 the work you own or contribute to.
• Deliver work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function.
• Make evaluative judgments 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.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experienced with MS Office toolkit.

Qualifications

• 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 and streamline processes.

Highly Valued Skills

• Article ship / Industrial trainee in mid to large-sized firms.
• Audit exposure in large financial institutions/banks.
• CFA/master’s in finance / financial engineering.

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