VP Regulatory Oversight

Join us as VP Regulatory Oversight where you will lead the design and delivery of Liquidity Management products for Corporate Banking clients across APAC and the Middle East. You will translate strategic objectives into seamless client journeys, drive implementation of new products and platforms, and ensure operational excellence by collaborating with business, technology, and regulatory stakeholders.

You will also:

• Design and enhance operating models for client onboarding, servicing, and implementation

• Drive digital transformation and automation across processes

• Partner with regional stakeholders (Front Office, Risk, Tech, Operations)

• Lead client onboarding and service excellence initiatives

• Establish governance, risk, and compliance frameworks

• Drive change management and operational enablement across regions

• Act as an escalation point for complex client issues and ensure resolution

To be successful in this role, you should:
Have strong leadership capability in operating model design, client onboarding, and implementation within corporate/transaction banking, along with the ability to manage complex regional stakeholder ecosystems and drive transformation initiatives.

Essential Skills / Basic Qualifications:

• Proven experience in client service, onboarding, or implementation leadership within corporate/transaction banking

• Strong knowledge of operational procedures and regulatory frameworks across APAC & Middle East

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills (written and verbal)

• Strong analytical ability to interpret data and derive actionable insights

• Demonstrated project management and change implementation experience

• Commercial mindset with strong focus on results and execution

• Ability to manage senior stakeholders and operate in a complex, matrix environment

Desirable Skills / Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong product knowledge in trade finance and/or cash management related products with a good understanding of end-to-end processes for each of the products

• Subject Matter expertise in Liquidity Management products – Cash Concentration, Sweeps, Pooling, Interest Optimization, Virtual Account Management, Payments rails.

• Working knowledge of cash platform buildout, Operating Model Design, local payment processes (such as MEPS, GIRO, FAST, Paynow), banking channels, liquidity management, and/or virtual accounts management

• Knowledge of SWIFT messaging

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as:

• Operating model design and transformation capability

• Stakeholder management and influencing skills

• Client onboarding and implementation expertise

• Problem-solving and decision-making ability

• Risk, compliance, and governance understanding

• Project and change management execution

Job location is Mumbai.

Purpose of the role

To manage operations within a business area and maintain processes, risk management initiatives and compliance with relevant regulators. 

Accountabilities

• Identification of trends and opportunities to improve areas and develop new process and procedures through the monitoring and analysis of operation data and performance metrices.
• Management of operations for a business area and promote efficient processes, risk management and compliance initiatives to support the bank's operations.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders (including business leaders, project manager and SMEs) and external stakeholders (including vendors and service providers) to support business operations and promote alignment with the bank's objectives and SLAs.
• Management of operational professionals and provide guidance, coaching and support to improve colleagues' delivery quality.
• Management and development of KPIs to measure the effectiveness of operation functions, utilising data and technology to support the identification of areas that require improvement.
• Compliance with all regulatory requirements and internal policies related to customer experience.
• Creation of a safe environment for colleagues to speak up, actively and regularly encourage and solicit feedback to ensure people agenda remains focused on the right areas.
• Management of attrition by working closely with HR in implementing retention initiatives for work force.

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.