Job Description

Job Title: Analyst
Location: Noida About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group. Risk and Control Objective
Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.
If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager. Introduction: Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, we operate in over 50 countries and employ over 140,000 people.

We provide large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Our clients also benefit from access to the breadth of expertise across Barclays. We’re one of the largest financial services providers in the world, and are also engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate banking, and wealth and investment management.
For further information about Barclays, please visit our website www.barclays.com. Financial Control has the primary responsibility of ensuring the Balance Sheet integrity of trading, banking & investment products and service entities/strategic business units.
The person responsible for supporting / driving development and maintenance of a strong Financial Control framework

• Ensure processes and controls are completed on time and to the right quality
• Strong Relationship Management
• Supporting Financial Control, Global Reconciliation Services, and Product Control teams
• Technical support to business as required on BAU

What will you be doing? The key responsibilities of the role include:
Financial Control Processes (50%)

• Ensuring all processes are completed within the relevant timescales and service levels are maintained
• Proactively maintain and develop own up to date specialist process and system knowledge to act as a point of reference.
• Support in the statutory and regulatory reporting
• Assist with ad-hoc projects and reporting requirements as they arise
• Opine on technical queries
• Helping in closure of books of accounts

Relationship & Stakeholder Management (20%)

• Manage and develop effective relationships with Business Units, other functions in wider finance
• Liaise with key stakeholders across the business units to identify common issues, opportunities for improvements and act as a central subject matter expert
• Communicate process changes and share knowledge required to successfully implement necessary changes

Advisory & Consultative (30%)

• Support business units providing expert help and guidance including accounting issues
• Support in investigating and resolving problems, issues and queries, liaising with customers, suppliers as appropriate
• Ensure consistency of approach across the Business units

What we’re looking for: Technical Knowledge:

• Accounting background / experience in accounting
• Qualified Accountant – CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, ICWA with strong and relevant financial control experience

Experience:

• Strong post qualification experience
• Background in Finance / Banking
• Internal candidates working in Financial Control at BA4 level in their current role for last 1 year

• Strong control awareness
• Qualified Accountant – CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, ICWA with strong and relevant financial control experience
• Strong understanding/practical experience on application of Accounting Standards/IFRS
• Enthusiastic, motivated, self-starter, pro-active and team player
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent communicator.
• Desire to provide top quality service to internal clients.
• Willingness and ability to take ownership of issues and manage through to a successful resolution
• Expected to take accountability/responsibility of deliverables
• Answerable to questions and able to substantiate data when required by client-facers
• Minimal supervisory oversight and able to perform duties with minimal or no guidance
• Providing innovative judgement which can be contributed as part of the decision making process.

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Experience in Financial control / monitoring function or audit function
• Banking or Big4 experience preferred, but not essential
• Experience of working in SAP financial accounting
• Good Accounting and IT System skills
• Required to provide detailed analysis and information on complex queries/problems and communicate to stakeholders on proposed solutions and recommendations

Commercial Effectiveness

• Customer focused – consistently meets client needs within constraints of time
• Consistently delivers against targets
• Has good understanding and is up to date on relevant business knowledge.
• Ability to scale-up and move up the value-chain within a short time-frame
• Opportunity to be groomed to be future team leaders/managers

Control Environment

• Escalates breaches of policies and procedures appropriately
• Must be regarded as proactive and assertive in driving control improvement for their area
• Strong control awareness - in particular, the individual should be able to identify initiatives which they have led which has directly improved the control environment for the area they work in
• Strong understanding and has the mindset to strive to identify potential control breakdowns in process, also demonstrated with effective procedure manuals
• Ability to streamline processes in a most efficient manner within the team.

Language
Ability to speak / write English fluently

Where will you be working? Noida
Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details. Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution. Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do. Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do. Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference. Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive. Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure. Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints. Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.