AVP Barclaycard

About the Role

Join us as an AVP Barclaycard at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. This role is based out of Chennai.

Purpose of the Role

To develop and implement the bank's financial plans and stress testing methodologies by assessing the bank's resilience under various economic scenarios.

Key Responsibilities

• Development and implementation of stress testing methodologies and analysis of the results to identify potential vulnerabilities, assess capital adequacy, and inform risk mitigation strategies.
• Management of the bank's financial risks, including development and implementation of risk management strategies and communication of financial risks to relevant stakeholders.
• Analysis of the bank's capital position and assessment of its ability to meet regulatory capital requirements, development of capital management strategies to optimise capital utilisation and evaluation of the impact of capital allocation decisions on the bank's risk profile and financial performance.
• Orchestration of process cycles for the Planning and Stress Testing FTC and project managing delivery of the Planning Process and stress tests.
• Documentation of requirements prescribed by the Regulator, Process/Data Owner.
• Tracking and reporting cycle progress via P&ST Steer Co, POC, Working Groups and the workflow tool.
• Management of data, dataflows and data quality from contributors - input through to report submission.
• Management of BAU systems to enable a quick outcome and iterative generation of Capital or Funding plans and separately drive process reengineering initiatives.
• Ownership of the controls environment, standards, conformance, partnering with BIA to ensure the FTC meets its controls and governance objectives.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives and determine reward outcomes.
• For leadership roles: Demonstrate clear leadership behaviours (Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others) to create an environment for colleagues to thrive.
• For individual contributors: Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation, and identify new directions for assignments/projects.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, requiring an understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to organisational objectives.
• Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support to stay up-to-date with business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple internal and external sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information (sensitive or difficult to communicate due to content or audience).
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Financial Reporting
• Regulatory reporting and Control
• Planning
• Analytics
• Designing MI dashboards
• Business Intelligence platforms
• SAP
• Tableau
• Alteryx
• Python
• Data management
• Data transformation
• Project management
• Scrum master capabilities
• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• BAU systems
• Control's environment
• Governance objectives

Qualifications

• Post graduate qualification in a numerate/information discipline desirable.
• CA/ICWA, MBA (Finance) or any other graduation degree with a strong academic record.

Experience

• Experience in Financial Reporting, Regulatory reporting and Control, Planning and/or Analytics.
• Experience around designing MI dashboards, analytics and insights.
• Barclays data and/or analytics experience a distinct advantage.