Planning and Stress Testing Model Execution AVP

Barclays•New York, NY

12d•$100,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join Barclays as a Planning and Stress Testing Model Execution AVP, where you'll have the chance to drive the execution and evolution of critical financial planning and stress testing models that support strategic decision-decision making across the bank. In this role, you will lead the onboarding of existing and emerging quantitative modeling methodologies, enhance model infrastructure, and coordinate model redevelopment efforts in response to performance monitoring, validation feedback, and changing business requirements. You'll collaborate with stakeholders across Finance, Risk, and Quantitative teams to ensure robust model governance and regulatory compliance while contributing to the validation lifecycle. This position offers broad exposure to financial banking operations and provides a unique opportunity to partner with multiple business areas, influencing the bank's forecasting, capital planning, and stress testing capabilities.

Requirements

Advanced quantitative modeling and analytics experience supporting financial planning, forecasting, capital management, and stress testing frameworks.
Strong understanding of banking, financial markets, and regulatory stress testing requirements, with the ability to apply analytical insights to business and risk management objectives.
Proven ability to execute, monitor, and enhance financial models while partnering with Finance, Risk, Quantitative Modeling, and Validation teams in a highly regulated environment.

Nice To Haves

Strong business acumen with the ability to assess complex financial and stress testing outcomes and their impact on strategic decision-making.
Background in accounting, consulting, finance, or a related discipline, with experience applying analytical insights in a banking or corporate environment.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to convey complex modeling and financial concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
You may be assessed on the 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.

Responsibilities

Delivery of advanced model analytics, improve stability and bring consistency in calculation approach.
Leading technical engagements with QA and IVU for strategic redevelopment project on behalf of FTC.
Provision of model execution, output analysis and lifecycle management capabilities across use cases for both forecasting and BAU models.
Implementation of process improvements though enhanced controls, automation and improved analytics.
Delivery of advanced model analytics (Recalibration, Sensitivity, root cause analysis etc.).
Controls and testing: Addressing execution issues with IT and QA, Perform UAT as part of model productionisation.
Cataloguing of issues, potential improvement for model redevelopment, authoring technical documentation with QA.
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.