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In a Controls role, you'll ensure rigorous and consistent management of Barclays' control environment in collaboration with business partners. Your work will safeguard the organization's integrity and compliance. Shape the Future of Our Risk and Control Environment – Bring your judgement, partnership, and analytical strength to help us safeguard the organization. Join us as a Controls Professional, where you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Investment Banking Businesses in sustaining a robust risk and control culture across the business. In this position, you’ll help drive key programmes across product areas, ensuring remediation activity is delivered effectively and in close partnership with business management and the COO organisation. You will chair the senior Investment Banking Risk & Control Committee, guiding meaningful discussions that strengthen oversight and judgement. Your work will include monitoring and reporting on the Investment Banking control framework while collaborating with senior stakeholders across all three Lines of Defence. You’ll also promote forward‑looking risk awareness by conducting deep‑dive analyses, identifying emerging themes, and providing actionable insights that help mitigate gaps and reinforce a safe and sound operating environment.
Job Responsibility:
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
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:
Investment Banking fist line of defence Risk and Control experience, including deep understanding of applicable conduct frameworks (i.e. supervision, conflict of Interest)
Excellent communication skills with validated ability to influence stakeholders
A detail-oriented focus and considerable organizational skills
Nice to have:
Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present credibly to senior stakeholders
Highly experienced in dealing with multiple stakeholders in different business functions who have different targets such as Barclays Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, Fraud, Legal
The ability to provide thought influence through bringing together insight and analysis including external knowledge
What we offer:
Hybrid working
Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed 'anchor' days