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

• Knowledge of Business Areas: Understanding of business areas, products, processes, and platforms to assess risk.
• Collaboration: Working with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and Investigation: Identifying and investigating potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned with the bank’s control framework, prioritized by severity.
• Reporting: Developing reports to communicate key findings from risk assessments, including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of Reviews: Conducting reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned with established and evolving policies, regulations, and best practices.
• Implementation: Implementing adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and setting appropriate methodology for assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

Vice President Expectations

• Strategy and Recommendations: Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
• Resource Management: Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• Team Management: Define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Leadership Responsibilities:
  • People Leaders: 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
  • Individual Contributor: Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and 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 specialization to complete assignments. Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Stakeholder Advice: Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Risk Management: Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Leadership and Accountability: Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Comprehensive Understanding: Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organization's functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and business strategies.
• Problem Solving: 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.
• Research: Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Relationships and Partnerships: 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: Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right.
• Barclays Mindset: Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.