Analyst, Product Control

About the Role

Analyst - Product Control at Barclays, based in Pune.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the financial aspects of trading activities.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of the bank's trading book.
• Maintain compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Provide insights into trading performance.
• Reconciliation of daily profit and loss (P&L) figures for trading desks.
• Investigate and resolve 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.
• Preparation and submission of regulatory reports to authorities.
• Support external audits.
• Effective communication of complex financial information.
• Cross-functional collaboration to ensure a coordinated approach to trading activities.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experienced with MS office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database).
• Qualified accountant.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (written and verbal) for formal and informal settings.
• Ability to interact with the region and UK / US as part of a global team.
• Strong control awareness, ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns.
• Ability to streamline processes in an effective and efficient manner.
• Initiative and ability to break down problems into components and resolve them.
• Attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Confident and assertive manner.

Highly Valued Skills

• CFA / Master’s in Finance / Financial Engineering.
• Article ship / Industrial trainee in mid to large-sized firms.
• Audit exposure in large financial institutions / banks.

Analyst Expectations

• Impact the work of related teams.
• 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.
• Deliver work in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function.
• Understand the organisation’s products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to organisational objectives.
• Make evaluative judgements based on factual information analysis, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through acquired technical experience, guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members.
• Communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function.
• Build a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organisation.