Product Control – Prime Services – Analyst recruitment

Company Overview

Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide. With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, we operate in over 50 countries and employ over 140,000 people.

We provide large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Our clients also benefit from access to the breadth of expertise across Barclays. We're one of the largest financial services providers in the world, and are also engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate banking, and wealth and investment management.

For further information about Barclays, please visit our website www.barclays.com.

It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Department Overview

The Finance department covers Product and Financial Control. Both Product and Financial Control are jointly responsible for the integrity of the financial records of Barclays Capital. Product Control provides explanations of business revenues, attributing any movements to market positions, inherent risk and new deals. The team is also responsible for ensuring the integrity of the balance sheet for revenue products. Product Control is pivotal to our reporting and control infrastructure and the information provided by the group gives us the means to assess business performance. In addition, the group coordinates all global finance controls and procedures. Financial Decision Support bolsters Barclays Capital's growth by enabling and supporting all financial decisions within the firm, through timely provision of quality data and partnership with key strategic decision makers. Product Control has a significant presence and role within the Organization. There is a close working relationship with the trading desks and other areas focusing on control, service and reporting. We are a central point of contact for many issues that affect the bank. By placing a heavy emphasis on information technology and focusing on project work, we are able to address control and operational risks and meet our internal and external obligations.

Main Function

The role is within the Prime Services section of the Product Control Group (PCG). Product Control performs a variety of daily tasks both executing current controls for Product Control and providing the traders with information. A key role is daily liaison with fellow members of PCG on PL, Balance Sheet, and ad hoc queries. Product Control is often the first point of contact for the traders and will deal with questions on existing positions and must be able to offer advice on control and accounting aspects of proposed new business. It is also a significant point of contact for Operations, IT and Finance as a whole. The role gives the chance to gain technical exposure to products, markets on current business and new business proposals. Building strong relationships with many departments is especially important since we often liaise with various groups.

Main Duties