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Join us as a 'Control 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.
Job Responsibility
Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
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
Requirements
Operational Risk Framework – Experience of working across ORF / BCF Standards or equivalent (Issues, Risk Events, RCSA, Interim RCSA, etc). Experience of managing Issues, DWB’s and Risk Events through the lifecycle supporting the Function
Understanding of Policy and Standards activities including refresh, readiness assessments, KIs, CECs
Understanding of Risks relevant to Business Units and Functions including Compliance Risk, Model Risk, Supplier Risk etc
Controls advisory / partnering – Experience of providing constructive challenge across all three lines of defence
Senior stakeholder engagement – Able to confidently face off to D / MD level stakeholders
Governance & oversight – Experience of operating effective control governance for a including producing meeting papers and ensuring all requirements maintained
Regulatory awareness – Understanding of regulatory expectations and experience of leading control remediation / uplift programmes of work
Forward‑looking risk insight – Ability to anticipate emerging risks by analyzing trends, control performance signals and upcoming change rather than relying solely on historical issues
Ability to consider thematic and conduct data analyses to highlight areas for improvement
Measures‑based control thinking – Experience of defining what “good” looks like using clear, outcome‑focused measures
Technical skills – ability to use AI to support activities, understanding of the risks of AI and able to explain to the business how these could be mitigated
Experience in Internal Audit, Control Business Partnership, Controls Assurance & Testing and/or Operational Risk Management
Prior experience of supporting/knowledge of controls committees, governance forums, and management information (MI) reporting, dashboards
Proficient in MS Office – PPT, Excel, Word & Visio