Opportunity brief
Barclays is hiring for the role of Analyst!
Responsibilities of the Candidate:
- 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.
Requirements:
- Experienced with MS office toolkit (Word, PPT, Excel, Access Database etc). - 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. - Has the initiative and ability to break down problems into component parts and resolve them. - Attention to detail and analytical. - Confident and assertive manner. - CFA/master's in finance / financial engineering would be an advantage - Article ship / Industrial trainee in mid- to large-sized firms - Audit exposure in large financial institutions/banks preferred.