Barclays

Wealth management services for UK clients

PC Prime Equities Analyst

Financial AccountingPosted on Nov 13

Full-timeChennai, Tamil Nadu, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in the assigned area of expertise and a thorough understanding of its underlying principles and concepts.
Must be experienced with the Microsoft Office toolkit.
Must be a qualified accountant.
Must have strong control awareness, including the ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns and streamline processes effectively and efficiently.
Must communicate financial information effectively in formal and informal settings and interact in writing and verbally with regional, UK, and US colleagues as part of a global team.
Must make evaluative judgments based on factual information and attention to detail.
Must resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions using acquired technical experience and precedents.
Must take responsibility for managing risk and strengthening controls related to owned or contributed work, and deliver work in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.
Must understand how the sub-function integrates with the wider function and understand the organization's products, services, and processes within the function.
Must understand how areas coordinate and contribute to organizational sub-function objectives.

Responsibilities

Oversee financial aspects of trading activities to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the bank's trading book, regulatory compliance, and insights into trading performance.
Reconcile daily profit and loss figures for trading desks against valued positions in the trading book, investigating and resolving discrepancies so that the figures reflect the true economic value of the trading portfolio.
Support identification, assessment, and mitigation of trading risks, and report financial risks to senior colleagues.
Maintain and analyze the bank's trading data, ensure its accuracy, completeness, and consistency, and provide insights on trading performance to traders and senior colleagues.
Prepare and submit regulatory reports to authorities, and support external audits by addressing auditor queries and ensuring trading activities are appropriately reflected in financial statements.
Collaborate across functions to coordinate trading activities.
Work with the Line PC team to ensure completeness and accuracy of books and records, including profit and loss and balance sheet substantiation and reporting.
Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a consistently high standard, driving continuous improvement.
Escalate policy or procedure breaches appropriately and embed new policies and procedures adopted for risk mitigation.
Advise and influence decision-making within the area of expertise.
Take responsibility for end results of a team's operational processing and activities.
Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex or sensitive information.
Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside the immediate function and build networks inside and outside the organization.
Partner with other functions and business areas.

Desired Qualifications

Financial engineering would be advantageous.
Articleship or industrial trainee experience in mid-sized to large firms is valued.
Audit exposure in large financial institutions or banks is preferred.

Job Description

Purpose of the role

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

Reconciliation of 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 to ensure they reflect the true economic value of the trading portfolio.
Support the identification, assessment, and mitigation of trading risks, and report on these financial risks to senior colleagues.
Maintenance and analysis of the bank’s trading data, ensuring its accuracy, completeness and consistency, and provision of insights to traders and senior colleagues on trading performance.
Preparation and submission of regulatory reports to authorities, and provision of support to external audits including addressing auditor queries and ensuring trading activities are appropriately reflected in financial statements.
Effective communication of complex financial information to traders, risk professionals, senior colleagues, and external stakeholders.
Cross functional collaboration to ensure a coordinated approach to trading activities.

Analyst Expectations

To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
Partner with other functions and business areas.
Takes 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 in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Join Barclays as a PC Prime Equities Analyst role, where you'll play a pivotal role in working with Line PC team for completeness and accuracy of the books and records that comprises of P&L (Profit & Loss) and Balance Sheet substantiation and reporting. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it.

To be successful in this role, you should have below skills:

Experienced with MS office toolkit.
Qualified accountant.
Excellent communication and presentation skills in both formal and informal settings & ability to interact with the region and UK / US as part of a global team (written and verbal).
Strong control awareness – in particular, the ability to identify and escalate potential control breakdowns and to streamline processes in an effective and efficient manner.

Some other highly valued skills may include below:

Financial engineering would be an advantage.
Article ship / Industrial trainee in mid to large sized firms.
Audit exposure in large financial institutions / banks preferred.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based out of Chennai.

About the Company

Barclays

Wealth management services for UK clients

Barclays Wealth Management helps UK clients manage and grow their wealth through a regional network of financial experts. It delivers personalized advice and services—such as investment management, financial planning, and estate and trust planning—tailored to each client’s goals, risk tolerance, and time horizon, with support from Barclays’ broader resources. What sets it apart is the combination of local, face-to-face guidance with the scale and range of a large UK bank, offering access to a wide array of financial products and research. The goal is to help clients preserve and grow their wealth over the long term by providing comprehensive, advisor-led guidance aligned with individual financial objectives.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1690

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