Vice President Impairment

Purpose of the role

To evaluate and assess the potential impairment of financial assets, ensuring that the bank's financial statements accurately reflect the economic value of its assets.   

Accountabilities

• Identification of potential impairment triggers, analysis of relevant financial and non-financial information to assess the potential for impairment of financial assets, and application of quantitative and qualitative impairment tests to determine whether an asset is considered impaired.
• Assessment of the impairment loss for an asset by identification of the right valuation method, assessment of its fair value, and documentation of the process.
• Calculation of the impairment provision to reflect the impairment loss and prepare clear and accurate impairment disclosures for financial statements.
• Management of the performance of impaired assets and reassessment of their impairment status on a regular basis.    .

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.

Join us as a Vice President Impairment at Barclays. The purpose of this role is to manage and lead a team responsible to for impairments results for the given portfolio. As part of this role, you will be required to drive Analytical insights and MI to businesses, drive impairment outlooks and proactive engagement with Portfolio Heads / Finance Directors and identify risks / opportunities to impairment outlooks including but not limited to scenario updates, model changes, portfolio risks as potential PnL drivers. You have to do accurate assessment of group Impairment Provisions and Identify Impairment Drivers – Scenario, Portfolio Movement, Sectoral Stress, New / Matured Exposures, Change in risk profile. This role requires you to lead and direct analysts – direct reports as well as those within “virtual” teams. This role needs you to define PMA Methodologies to address Model Limitations / Economic Uncertainty / Idiosyncratic events / Emerging risks not captured in model outcomes and continue to refine and Impairment measurement framework through model transformation to right size provision levels.

To be successful as a Vice President Impairment, you should have experience with:

• Credit risk management and strategy.
• Understanding of credit risk models (IFRS9 / RWA) covering PD / LGD and EAD.
• Forecasting, portfolio risk management, risk modelling technique knowledge.
• Understanding of Enterprise risk management framework (ERMF).
• Understanding of IFRS9 / IAS 39 accounting standards.
• Analytical skills: problem structuring, hypothesis testing via data analysis.
• Team working and stakeholder management across all levels.
• Clear and concise communication to present results of analyses up to level of senior MDs.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Knowledge / Understanding of SAS / Python.
• Understanding of capital models / Market Risk is desirable.

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 skill.

This role is for Noida location.