BA4 - Research

Join us as a BA4 - Research, where you will provide subject matter expertise on India employment legislation, Regulatory Requirements, and Organizational compliance procedures. In this role, you will support the organization by offering guidance on complex employment law matters, interpreting statutory requirements, ensuring that policies and processes reflect current legal standards and attend various hearings with the regulators . You will partner with various stakeholders to drive fair, consistent, and legally compliant employee practices across the organization.

To be successful as a BA4 - Research, you should have experience with:

Overall Purpose Of Role

The role involves managing the process for capturing and standardizing broker votes.

The candidate will work closely with Research business managers to capture broker vote data from various client formats in a pre-defined structure and format using a web-based portal.

This successful candidate will own this process across the Americas and European client base and will engage with multiple stakeholders to ensure capture is completed in a timely fashion on an ongoing basis.

The candidate will also drive delivery of key reports and help provide valuable business/monetization analysis for multiple stakeholders in research.

Key Accountabilities

• Assisting with broker vote processing – taking ownership for managing the centralized processing for Broker votes, including analyzing broker vote data, standardizing it, capturing information, coordinating with sales, working on any ad-hoc request related to broker vote.
• Supporting Research Sales and Client Strategy with key insights on votes and client consumption.
• Responsibility to ensure accuracy of data in the portal as per predefined agreement per client.
• Delivering/Maintaining interactive tools and dashboards by using Business Objects and MS Excel.

As part of a global team, the Mumbai based individual will be directly required to interact and work with different stakeholders in Research various regions and time zones. The individual will require exceptionally strong written and oral communication and presentation skills.

Decision-making And Problem Solving

This role requires the candidate to have excellent analytical skills. The candidate will be required to have in-depth knowledge of votes and be able to make decisions to standardize information as well as resolve queries from team members in this regard.

Risk And Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors/masters degree with at least 2-4 years of experience working in a data intensive process and hands on reporting experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a time sensitive environment.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Strong interest in the subject matter.
• Resourcefulness, and proactive attitude.
• Proficient in MS Excel using Macros and MS Office applications with the knowledge of lookups, functions and basic reporting in Excel.
• Ability to work during UK business hours.

• Ability to quickly grasp concepts and implement them.
• Report development using SAP Business Objects is preferable.
• Basic understanding of financial terms and the research business would be an added advantage.
• In depth understanding of the broker vote process within a research environment would be an advantage but not essential.

Location-Mumbai.

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

Purpose of the role

To maximise the value of the Research product through the targeting and marketing of content to Clients and ensuring best practice in negotiating and collecting revenue.

Accountabilities

• Leverage data, analytics and feedback to understand our clients and competitive landscape; use the information to continuously monitor and decide where to allocate resources.
• Management, continual improvement and execution of the Research content monetization processes and agenda.
• Collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities and improvements to the monetisation of Research.
• Identification of and driving changes to systems and processes to continual improve the delivery to our internal stakeholders and Clients .
• Adherence to the highest standards of risk management and controls; identification of potential risks and help to develop strategies to mitigate those risks.

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a teams operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.