AVP - Controls Business Partner

Join us for a role as "Controls Business Partner" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the  evolution  of our digital  landscape,  driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge  technology to revolutionize  our digital offerings,  ensuring  unapparelled customer  experiences.

To be successful as a "Controls  Business Partner" you should have experience with:

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• The role requires a strong technical understanding of regulatory subject matter relevant to Transaction Banking, Wholesale Lending, and International Corporate Banking, along with knowledge of the end-to-end regulatory life-cycle.

• It involves commercial and technical understanding of Transaction Banking and Wholesale Lending products across various jurisdictions, and prior experience in regulatory or technical analysis of requirements.

• The role demands comfortability in working across a multi-jurisdictional portfolio.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• The role requires a highly organized and structured method of working, with a good understanding of front-to-back processes across diverse Banking businesses.

• Extensive experience in senior stakeholder management is necessary, including the ability to communicate internal control concepts clearly in a business context and manage reporting lines and relationships across multiple disciplines.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Good understanding of the global regulatory landscapes.

• Experience of designing, communicating & implementing internal control policies.

• Proficient in use of MS Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Co-Pilot).

• Hands on experience in projects in regulatory environment.

• Experience in regulatory technology platforms such as CUBE.

• Role requires a strong technical understanding of regulatory subject matter  relevant to transaction Banking, Wholesale Lending, and International  Corporate Banking, along with knowledge of the end-to-end regulatory  life-cycle.

• It involves commercial and technical understanding of Transaction Banking  and Wholesale Lending products across various jurisdictions, and prior experience in regulatory or technical analysis of requirements.

• The role demands comfortability in working across a multi-jurisdictional portfolio.

• Extensive experience in senior stakeholder management is necessary,  including the ability to communicate internal control concepts clearly in a business context and reporting lines and relationships across multiple discipline.

Location-Noida.

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.

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.  

Accountabilities

• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• 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.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.