Vice President - Financial Governance & Control - BFSI

Finance Governance and Controls

Finance Governance and Controls function is responsible to provide independent assurance to the Management and act as 1st line and 2nd line of defence as stipulated in ERM framework.

Overall purpose of role : Finance Governance and Controls is a key Control and Reporting function within the ERM Framework of Barclays. The team is responsible for adoption and execution of Group policies and practices within the Finance function. The team is also responsible for ongoing monitoring and reporting of Control Management information through Control Review meetings and Management information submission to Senior Stakeholders

Risk and Control : All Barclays colleagues have to 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

Key specific accountabilities :

The key responsibilities of the role includes :

- Management and oversight of the Chennai Finance Controls and Reporting team

- Review Letter of Representation (LoR) packs and chair monthly meetings.

- Review of Control Management Information Reports.

- Coordination with regional FGC Counter parts.

- Lead/support Finance, Governance and Controls in global control initiatives

- Strong risk/control focus and mindset

- Manage Administrative tasks in relation to scheduling control review meetings

- Be able to quickly analyse processes and identify key potential risks

- Analyse incidents/issues and work with business line to remediate issues/incidents

- Excellent attention to details with high standards of quality in work

- Liaison with FC teams, Operational Risk, Internal and External Auditors with regards to Asia FC control environment

- Enhancement or development of strategic Finance control framework

- Policy and Controls-related training and awareness

- Stakeholder management and leadership.

- Manage and maintains good customer relations

- Manage and meet client needs within constraints of time, resource and budget

- Is accountable for their deliverables and delivers against assigned targets

- Ability to negotiate and influence internal senior management across the businesses to explain and get their buy in on key challenges in managing the deliverables Ability to build strong partnerships across the business with excellent stakeholder management

- Training and development of staff

- Decision making and problem solving.

- Displays sound judgement in decisions, demonstrates logical thinking process and being able to strike the right balance between controls and business needs

- Shows enthusiasm, initiative and diligence

- Proactive and self starter

- Strong ability to interact with different team (BAU, Projects, Operational Risk, Internal audit, IT for change management- ) and at different levels (from analyst to senior management)

Problem solver :

Willingness and ability to take ownership of issues and manage through to a successful resolution

Risk and Control : All Barclays colleagues have to 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