Valuations Control Analyst

Valuations Control Analyst

Glasgow

As a Barclays Valuations Control Analyst, you will be part of the newly set up Valuation Control team in Glasgow reporting into the regional Head. Product Control Valuations is a control function responsible for providing independent oversight of the fair values associated with the firm's trading portfolios. Your primary duties will include performing regular independent price verification, providing oversight of provision and reserve methodologies and regular measurement and reporting of Regulatory Prudent Valuations.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor', days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Liaising and collaborating with product control, risk management and quantitative departments on valuation and modelling issues

• Being involved with Intramonth price testing to consensus, exchange, broker, or other data of pricing inputs and model outputs for fair value positions across asset classes

• Discussing, reporting and escalations of price testing results with front office and senior management and having significant involvement in regional and global ad hoc projects

• Working on creating solutions and improvements to the IPV process, this requires working with the “Change Management” team to enhance specification of technology requirements

• Managing effectively relationships across departments and the desk and be able to communicate and challenge the Valuation control output across areas and products.

• Being responsible for managing the delivery of key projects in pressurised circumstances as well as influencing others to do so

• Supporting knowledge sharing within the team to drive a high performance culture

• Seeking proactively opportunities for continuous development of personal capability and identifying potential sources for new ideas and approaches, leading to an improved performance

What we're looking for:

• Sound financial product knowledge with Valuation concepts and attention to detail

• Experienced with MS office

• Excellent interpersonal skills and stakeholder management and ability to work independently to resolve unstructured problems; a team player

• Exceptional communication skills and ability to present, explain complex issues in simple terms with stakeholders from Trading, Finance, market Risk and IT across different levels

Skills that will help you in the role:

• MSc in quantitative discipline or a similar qualification and/or professional qualification (e.g. CFA, FRM, ACA) is preferred

• Experience in the Valuation Control / Product Control / Risk Management / Trading role of top tier investment bank preferred

• Experience with Automation tools like python, alteryx/coding experience

• Proactive and assertive in identifying control or valuation concerns and driving control improvement for their area; ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines

Where will you be working?

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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