AVP - Wholesale Lending SIP - Finance SME Segment

Introduction:

The role is based in London and working as part of a core Finance team responsible for rolling out strategic plans across BI Finance. The AVP will support VP leads both in London and India to engage in stakeholder management, analysis, design, project planning documentation and delivery, covering the whole transformation cycle of the project.

The primary focus is on implementing the Barclays' Data Strategy for Risk, Finance and Treasury with respect to the Wholesale Lending Business Transformation, centred around the implementation of LoanIQ as the strategic Loan Servicing and Accounting sub ledger. The business growth initiative is a multi-year strategic plan that builds on the current Change/IT book of work to re-engineer architecture, improve data consistency, enhance controls and make processes more efficient.

The role will be responsible for working on the Wholesale Lending / Loan IQ programme to drive consistency across Risk, Finance and Treasury functions and move data and processes onto strategic platforms.

What will you be doing?

- Understand implications of the Wholesale Lending Data Strategy for Finance and focus on delivering near term milestones.

- Co-ordinate and plan analysis and testing tasks for one or more components of the Strategy streams and support VP leads in design, engagement and delivery.

- Work closely with VP leads to facilitate engagement with senior PMO, Finance Line and IT colleagues to plan, discuss and implement change.

- Identify issues and risks of implementing the strategy as they become apparent and present options and proposed solutions for discussion with senior stakeholders across Finance, IT and PMO.

- Utilising Agile techniques to ensure high visibility to stakeholders and continuous delivery through sprint cycles.

- Challenge IT to ensure designs are addressing the user requirements and the root cause and identifying and suggesting improvements to scope or design to add value to end user solutions.

- Work with VP leads and BI Finance stakeholders (primarily Corporate and Investment Bank areas) to ensure Loan IQ requirements are defined, understood and aligned to the broader Finance Strategy.

- Gaps and issues are escalated to appropriate governance forums for review and remediating actions executed.

- Partner with the Loan IQ delivery team to ensure requirements are aligned to the Finance strategy and prioritized by the programme.

- Execution on programme deliverables in partnership with BI Finance teams.

What we're looking for:

- Degree educated from a top tier institution

- Qualified Accountant with a strong grasp of IFRS accounting standards

- Robust understanding of Barclays front to back system infrastructure and Product Control & Financial Control processes. Able to apply the Barclays RFT data strategy to execute strategic change.

- Demonstrable experience of executing Finance change for Wholesale Lending businesses in specific context of LoanIQ as the Operational Loan Servicing and Accounting sub ledger

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Strong Product knowledge of the suite of Wholesale Lending businesses across CB & IB

- Ability to apply automation technology & techniques in manipulating large data sets

Where will you be working?

Chennai