Product Control – Wealth Americas 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
Wealth Americas Product Control, within the Finance Department, is responsible for the PL production and reporting, month end general ledger close and other product control related analysis for Wealth Americas. The core responsibilities of the team are the reporting of and validation of daily management PL through the analysis of transactions. This role will also be responsible for ensuring integrity of the balance sheet / revenue in the financial statements. In addition, the role will entail the evaluation of new products to ensure they are properly controlled so that they are accounted for accurately in the books and records.
Main Function
This role will be responsible for the following: Trade Analysis:
- Produce, validate and report daily management PL
- Review and report on daily trade and pnl activity and its impact on BWA's PL, Balance Sheet and risk profile.
- Produce/review Front Office System to Back Office System pl reconciliations.
Monthly:
- Production of Monthly Control Pack for presentation to senior mgmt both FO and Finance Reconciliation of management pl to books and records
- Provide Adhoc analysis on the business trends
- Implement and enhance financial and pnl controls within your process
- Interface with all other support areas for the group to cover accounting, credit, operational and market risk aspects of the business
- Work closely with Financial Control to ensure representation on the ledger is correct.
Person Requirements
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance
- 2+ years Product Control/Financial Control experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- CPA preferred
- Ability to recognize control issues within trade lifecycle
- Knowledge of Capital Market products (fixed income/equities)
- Ability to be proactive in a dynamic environment