• Job Description

  Req#: 90331125

  Job Title: Analyst - Planning and Stress Testing
  Location: Chennai

  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:

  Support process improvement, automation and execute business planning and stress testing processes leading to process streamline, improved quality and effort savings. Providing analytical support in the development of financial plans, providing a controlled financial process and detailed analysis of the changes in forecast performance. Working closely with Planning & Stress Testing colleagues across the FTC in Chennai and London, contribute to the delivery of major team deliverables.

  What will you be doing?

  The Planning & Stress Testing analyst uses technology for automating the process and supporting the analyses & communicates key drivers of the business plans, providing highly effective performance management information and support on key business decisions through detailed and insightful analysis. Additionally, the role holder leverages planning knowledge & shared processes, alongside strong stakeholder relationships to support on internal and regulatory stress tests.

  In particular, the role holder will:
  • Seek constant improvements in order to develop, maintain, and operate an integrated, consistent, flexible and up to date planning process and tools. Optimising process performance and driving all aspects of Continuous Improvement
  • Support and determine Business financial strategy, ensuring integration and alignment to Group performance guidelines
  • Provide insightful analysis around key business drivers, key metrics such as ROTE and one off items versus underlying drivers of income generation, and qualitative and quantitative variance analysis of performance vs prior year and previous plans
  • Develop multi-year financial plans, short term plans, rolling forecasts and scenario analyses to advance the business mission and strategic priorities, including support on stress tests.
  • Support and coordinate the plan development process, managing stakeholders and ensuring both internal and Group deadlines are met, making certain financial plan data in Barclays systems correctly reflects the approved plans, using MS Excel and Oracle Hyperion Planning and other tools
  • Liaise with various stakeholders (MeX, PeX, AI etc) to assist co-ordination of the annual budget (STP) and Medium term budget (MTP – annual multi-year forecast) internal stress test (IST) and external stress tests (PRA, EBA)
  • Support validation process, document review and necessary data validation
  • Take responsibility for controls, ensuring adherence to P&ST controls framework for all planning purposes
  • Support finance change projects across relevant areas

  What we’re looking for:

  • Use the technical skills to streamline, integrate and automate the processes.
  • Gather, analyse business requirements, design and implement Process improvement solutions and develop process workflows
  • Create and maintain documentations that includes process design, technical solution and design documents to accurately represent design and code
  • Work with the Process Experts to implement and automate the process using VBA, Python, Altyrex, SQL etc.
  • Ability to acquire skills quickly to interrogate systems
  • Attention to detail and high accuracy
  • Desire to learn and develop
  • Ability to plan and prioritise workload, as well as coordinate the collation of information from a wide variety of sources to challenging deadlines
  • Good communication skills, particularly the ability to summarise large amounts of data and present in a concise and readily understood format. Including the ability to communicate complex financial analysis to non-financial people
  • Professional accountancy qualification, or equivalent relevant experience e.g. CIMA, ACA
  • Financial services background, with relevant financial planning & analysis experience, post qualification.
  • Strong in the use of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel (mandatory) and Powerpoint
  • Good understanding of business processes and activities and the underlying income and cost drivers
  • Knowledge of Barclays accounting policies and procedures
  • Knowledge of Finance in Barclays and how it operates
  • Understanding of the Group strategy
  • Understanding of business strategic objectives.
  
  Skills that will help you in the role:

  • Demonstrated stakeholder management experience
  • Strong Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills
  • Experience developing in different kinds of process improvements
  • Relevant experience in managing financial consolidation processes
  • Familiarity with accounting systems – e.g. Oracle Hyperion Planning
  • Relevant experience in finance change projects
  • Relevant experience in financial projections and modelling; experience in data extraction, import, and analysis

  Where will you be working?

  Chennai

  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.

• About the company

  From current accounts, mortgages and insurance, to loans, credit cards and saving accounts – see how we can help you. Let’s go forward

Notice