Job Title: Deputy Manager | CCR | Pune | Regulatory & Financial Risk
Job Title:
Payment Control Analyst (AVP)
Corporate Grade:
AVP
Reports to (Line Manager’s Job Title):
VP – Payment Control Operations
Direct Reports (if applicable):
None
Business Area:
Global Market Operations
Department/Function Level 1:
COO
Department/Function Level 2:
Markets Post Trade
Primary Location:
Pune, India / Whippany US
IAR Role
No
Regulated Role
No
Role Profile Attestation
The content of this role profile is relevant for the role in question
Name of reviewer:
Paul Eblett
Role of reviewer:
Director – Head of Client Experience and London head of GMO
Date of review:
June 4th 2026
Barclays Overview
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.
For further information about Barclays, please visit our website www.barclays.com.
Barclays offers investment banking products and services in the US through Barclays Capital Inc.
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
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed ‘anchor’ days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
Barclays Values and Diversity
Our common purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way. We’ll measure and reward our people, not just on commercial results, but on how they live our Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship and bring them to life every day. To find out more about working at Barclays and the development opportunities we offer please visit our website www.barclays.com
We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.
It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.
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.
Overall Purpose of Role
Execute and provide senior support in the payment control activities within the Payment Control Gateway (PCG), ensuring effective review, validation and risk-based decisioning on payments prior to release, while maintaining strong control discipline and operational oversight.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide support to BA4 and run daily payment control processing activities
- Review and challenge decisions on payment release, hold or escalation
- Ensure payments are validated against trade data, confirmations and SSI
- Act as first point of escalation for high-risk or complex payment scenarios
- Ensure adherence to control procedures, limits of authority and audit requirements
- Drive root cause analysis on exceptions, breaches and near misses
- Identify themes and trends in false positives and control gaps
- Partner with Technology and SMEs to refine rules and improve detection accuracy
- Oversee production of MI on volumes, outcomes and control performance
- Coach and develop analysts to ensure consistent quality and decisioning
- Collaborate with Operations, Technology and Front Office stakeholders to resolve complex scenarios, verifying if they can independently – but if there’s any doubt/queries they should relentlessly interrogate the data and get direct answers from the services as to the rationale/process for the payment
Basic Qualifications:
- Strong experience in Global Markets Operations or payments processing environment
- Good understanding of payment flows, settlement lifecycle and control points
- Experience managing or supervising operational teams
- Ability to assess transaction risk and make structured decisions
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in payment controls, transaction monitoring or risk/control environments
- Knowledge of FX, Derivatives, Collateral or Financing products
- Experience working with rule-based or AI-driven detection models
- Strong stakeholder management with Operations and Technology
- Experience driving process improvement and operational optimisation