Barclays
Controls Business Partner
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Job Description
Purpose of the Role
To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the bank's internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the bank’s operational, financial, and reputational risk.
Accountabilities
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Knowledge of Business Areas, Products, Processes, and Platforms
- To be able to assess risk
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Collaboration
- With various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
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Identification and Investigation
- Of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
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Reporting
- Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
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Review Execution
- To determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
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Implementation of Controls Framework
- Adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.
Vice President Expectations
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Contribution and Strategy
- To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
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Resource and Budget Management
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes.
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Continuous Improvement and Policy Escalation
- Deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
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Team Management (if applicable)
- Define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
- 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.
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Leadership Behaviours (if applicable)
- 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
- 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:
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Subject Matter Expertise (if applicable)
- A subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
- 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.
- Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
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Stakeholder Engagement
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
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Risk Management
- 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.
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Comprehensive Understanding
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
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Collaboration
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
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Analytical Thought
- 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.
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Research Integration
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
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- Relationship Building
- 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.
Barclays Values and Mindset
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
Join us at Barclays as a Controls Business Partner, where you will play a pivotal role in strengthening the control environment, driving effective risk management, and supporting the delivery of strategic business objectives across the organisation.
Essential Skills
- Risk and controls expertise, with the ability to design, implement and enhance effective controls and processes.
- Ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders, driving collaboration and delivering outcomes across complex business environments and all three lines of defense.
- Excellent problem-solving capabilities, with a strategic and solution focused approach to identifying and mitigating risks.
- Ample organisational and skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and ensure dependable execution.
Highly Valued Skills
- Prior experience working with investment banking products and services.
- Prior experience working with policies and standards, including ability to design associated processes, controls and testing needs. Examples could include Market Conduct, Complaints and Business Communications.
- Knowledge of Barclays Cross Border framework.
Assessment
You may be assessed on the 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.
Location
This role is based in London.
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