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Job Title: AVP
Location: Chennai

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

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.

Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.
If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

Hybrid Working

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances These requests will be reviewed and agreed for a period of time i.e., will have a start and end date.
Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
Introduction:

• Ensure smooth functioning of Talent Acquisition Operations and compliance to procedures and policy guidelines.
• Lead the team into Operational Growth and to achieve stipulated SLA’s to proactively build relationships with stake holders (internal and external).
• The role holder will manage and oversee multiple projects and/or programme workstreams, updating the Service Delivery Lead to ensure delivery on time,
• Need to oversee/handle Programmatic team
• Overall regional service delivery responsibilities for Programmatic screening process.

What will you be doing?

BACKGROUND VERIFICATION GOVERNANCE & KNOWLEDGE

• Candidate will need to drive team to follow the Background Verification process for new joiners and keeping up to date with new regulations and changes in the external environment.
• India HR Operations team

SCREENING MANAGEMENT:




• Be an ambassador for excellent Candidate experience during their Recruitment process
• Ensuring compliance according to the Global Screening Standard, reviewing screening results and interpreting these to decide if individuals can enter our business and remain post-hire.
• Review final output for each Screening Case and use policy knowledge to make a compliance decision.
• Provide advice and guidance to customers and other stakeholder i.e. Resourcing Partners.
• Ensure Risk and Governance requirements are adhered to and actions completed within timescales.
• Ensure any operational and process failures/weaknesses identified through controls testing and Conformance Testing are addressed.
• Ownership of personal performance development and training needs.
• Grow own capability within the team.
• Provide input to projects and change initiative within HR Operations
• Monitoring of operational performance and SLA, to ensure effective delivery of performance

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
• Lead and manage the team and be responsible for own team areas of performance against a number of key metrics including customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction, compliance with Sourcing requirements and operational efficiency. Ensure that financial controls are in place and process risk is identified and mitigated
• Build, Lead, and develop the Onboarding team; set challenging goals that underpin the business aims

What we’re looking for:

• Excellent project management skills and the ability to manage, prioritize and deliver multiple tasks within the same period of time.
• Managing and communicating with stakeholders appropriately
• Related Onboarding legislation, governance and practice
• Uses evaluative judgements based on the analysis of information to implement solutions
• Ability to translate difficult problems into simple solutions which are actionable by the business. For example manual convention of hard copy feedback form to an OMR based paper to use technology to automatically read and provide results in excel
• Strong analytical mind set and comfort when presenting performance, including attention to detail, problem solving and decision making skills
• Proven process and project management skills, which demonstrate ability to identify and manage interdependent activities, always meeting the requirements of stakeholders
• Excellent communicator with the ability to discuss nonstandard process related scenarios with colleagues who do not have a Onboarding background
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills
• Working autonomously when required
• Excellent awareness and adherence to Governance and Control.
• Wider thinking – a strong awareness of Business strategy and objectives
• Understanding of People Screening, UK Onboarding, SAP, Hire and the Pay and Status processes.

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Possess a demonstrable ability to effectively engage with stakeholders, whilst being able to clearly communicate requirements and liaise with peers who are required to support the delivery.
• Performance driven and results orientated, supportive, business focused, customer aware, cooperative team worker.
• Committed to developing self and others, exercises good judgement, as well as politically sensitive and astute, both internally & externally.
• Critical thinker,



adaptable to responding to changing business priorities & responsibilities; aptitude to coach effectively.
• Ability to understand stakeholder requirements and translate those into practical and implementable solutions
• Ability to prioritise the critical elements of problems and implement efficient solutions that produce the biggest value for the effort
• Excellent relationship building and communication skills
• Consistent and demonstrably high levels of drive, tenacity and mental energy
• Strong networking skills
• Highly numerate and comfortable building and using models.
• Sound knowledge of HR policies and procedures
• Experience of working with cross geography teams
• Expert user - MS Office
• At least 12 months in the current role at BA4 or AVP
• Last year PD rating Strong or above
• Significant experience of providing automation and development expertise within a relevant business / function.

Education & Experience

• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Excellent record of accomplishment during past work experience.
• Demonstrated team handling skills in the past.

Where will you be working?

Chennai

Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative current solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.

Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.

Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.

Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.

Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.

Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.

Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.

Benefits of working as a AVP in Chennai:

● Company offers great benefits
● Opportunities to grow
● Attractive package

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