Analyst - Product Control

We are seeking an Analyst - Product Control at Barclays, located in Pune, Gera Commerzone SEZ.

The purpose of this role 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.

Accountabilities:

• Reconcile daily profit and loss (P&L) figures for trading desks to ensure they align with the valued positions in the trading book, investigating and resolving discrepancies between P&L figures.
• Support the identification, assessment, and mitigation of trading risks, and report on these financial risks to senior colleagues.
• Maintain and analyze the bank's trading data, ensuring its accuracy, completeness, and consistency, and provide insights to traders and senior colleagues on trading performance.
• Prepare and submit regulatory reports to authorities, and provide support to external audits.
• Communicate complex financial information effectively to traders, risk professionals, senior colleagues, and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure a coordinated approach to trading activities.

Analyst Expectations:

• Have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Take responsibility for end results of a team's operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• Take ownership of managing risk and strengthening controls.
• Deliver work in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the organization's objectives.
• Make evaluative judgments based on analysis of factual information.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function.

Requirements:

• Experienced with MS Office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database, etc.).
• Qualified accountant.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong control awareness.
• Ability to break down problems into component parts and resolve them.
• Attention to detail and analytical.
• Confident and assertive manner.

Preferred 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.