Hedge Accounting Specialist

Role: Hedge Accounting Specialist - VP

Location: London

Purpose of the role

To report and analyse hedging relationships, identify potential hedge accounting opportunities, and implement effective hedging strategies to mitigate accounting asymmetry risk.

Accountabilities

Design and implementation of effective hedge accounting strategies that support the bank's overall risk management framework and adjust as needed to maintain hedge effectiveness and respond to changes in market conditions.

Assessment of potential hedge accounting relationships between financial instruments, considering factors such as effectiveness, designation, and hedge ratio.

Preparation and maintenance of comprehensive hedge accounting documentation, including hedge designation reports, effectiveness testing results, and fair value measurements and ensure that hedge accounting documentation is accurate, compliant with accounting standards, and readily available for audit review.

Fair value measurements for financial instruments, including both hedged and hedging instruments, using appropriate valuation methodologies, and calculation and recording of hedge accounting adjustments, including hedge ineffectiveness adjustments, to reflect the impact of hedging relationships on the financial statements.

Management of regular effectiveness testing of hedging relationships to assess whether they continue to meet the requirements for hedge accounting, and evaluation of the effectiveness of hedging strategies and adjust as needed to maintain hedge effectiveness.

Report the internal and external statutory view of hedge accounting effectiveness for presentation into Barclays Annual Accounts.

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.

As a Hedge Accounting VP, you’ll act as a key subject matter expert for Barclays’ hedge accounting function and a trusted business partner to stakeholders across the firm. You’ll provide expert advice on hedge accounting matters, supporting the development and refinement of new and existing hedge strategies and helping to shape the strategic direction of the function. Your insight will enable the business to make informed decisions while ensuring hedge accounting approaches remain robust, compliant, and aligned with commercial objectives.

You’ll play a central role in managing and evolving the hedge accounting risk and control framework, ensuring controls are designed and performed to the highest standards and that financial performance is clearly understood. You’ll be responsible for the accurate and timely reporting of hedge accounting results and disclosures across the firm’s legal entity structure, and you’ll support impact assessments for new accounting standards, including Risk Mitigation Accounting. In addition, you’ll contribute to and lead elements of the function’s change agenda, providing strong input into the Transform initiative and helping to deliver sustainable improvements across hedge accounting capabilities.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

Technical accounting mind-set with experience of hedge accounting

Excellent written and verbal communication skills; tested in a variety of mediums including presentations, policy documents and stakeholder meetings/forums

Fully qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA or equivalent)

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

Experience of working in Banking or other Financial Services company

Understanding of Treasury function and related products

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 skills.

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. It is diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Barclays 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 its service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Values

Everything Barclays does is shaped by its five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The Barclays values inform the foundations of its relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how Barclays measures and rewards the performance of colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Diversity

Barclays aims to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to Barclays vision and goals.

Hybrid Working

Barclays is 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. Barclays is 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. Barclays also has a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Your Benefits

As a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. There’s enrolment in a pension plan (after 12 weeks on assignment) and holiday pay. You’ll also get 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, designed to help you deal with any problems that could be affecting your home or work life. Plus, there’s discounts at heaps of high street shops, restaurants and entertainment - from Asda to Zizzi Italian restaurants