FLM Projects - Development and Innovation AVP

Funding & Liquidity Management (FLM) identifies, reports, manages and mitigates the liquidity risk to sustain the bank’s value. FLM is responsible for the development of a best-in-class funding strategy that optimises funding resources while facilitating business growth. This role is part of the Development and Innovation team in FLM. The role involves managing delivery of strategic liquidity projects developing new enhancements, projection and analytical capabilities; to meet both internal and regulatory expectations..  It will also involve working on the resolution related capabilities and responsibilities for FLM including Trading Wind-down and Funding in Resolution.

Essential skills / basic qualifications:

• Experience in a Treasury, Risk or Finance function;
• Experience in driving deliverables via collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders;
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills;
• Advanced level of competency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).

Desirable skills / preferred qualifications:

One or more of the below experiences / knowledge base areas would be preferred, though not mandatory:

• Experience in a Regulatory Liquidity Reporting, Treasury or Liquidity Risk Management function;
• Experience with data gathering, storage, analytics and visualisation tools
• Good understanding of Liquidity (Risk) Management

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role

To verify that the bank has sufficient funds to meet its short-term and long-term obligations, and the development and implementation of strategies to manage the bank's liquidity position.  

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of funding and liquidity strategies to efficiently manage the bank’s liquidity position within regulatory requirements and risk appetite at favourable commercial outcomes with respect to funding costs.
• Analysis and quantification of the regulatory and behavioural liquidity risk impact of transactions undertaken by business units.
• Maintenance of strong relationships with key business units and working with the business units to manage liquidity to within constrains.
• Monitoring of key liquidity metrics and trends and advising on actions to be taken to maintain funding and liquidity levels within tolerance.
• Managing intra-group funding arrangements to ensure subsidiaries are adequately funded and managed within balance sheet, large exposure and capital constraints.
• Design and implementation of stress testing methodologies to assess the bank's liquidity resilience under various financial shocks, economic downturns, and sector-specific crises, and analysis of stress testing results and development of mitigation strategies to address potential liquidity shortfalls.
• Development of new tools, models and data analysis to support and enhance the bank’s funding and liquidity management capabilities.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.