Compliance Assurance Review Lead VP

Join us as a Compliance Assurance Review Lead (Vice President) within the Barclays UK (BUK) Compliance Assurance Team.

As a Compliance Assurance Review Lead, you will lead and execute assurance reviews to independently assess and report on the effectiveness of Compliance Risk management across BUK. You will be responsible for managing reviews from planning through to reporting, providing objective challenge to the business, identifying key risks and control weaknesses, and delivering high-quality assurance insights that influence positive customer and regulatory outcomes.

You will build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the business and Compliance, confidently discussing complex and, at times, contentious issues, influencing decision-making, and driving accountability for remediation activities. You will also play a key role in supporting the development of junior team members and contributing to the ongoing evolution of the Compliance Assurance function and strategy.

To be successful as a Compliance Assurance Review Lead, you should have:

• Significant experience leading Compliance Assurance, Internal Audit and / or External Audit reviews.

• Strong technical assurance skills, including risk assessment, control evaluation, root cause analysis, issue articulation, and identifying themes and trends across multiple sources of information.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively and navigate complex or sensitive discussions.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce clear, concise and impactful reports for senior management.

• Good knowledge of UK retail banking and the associated regulatory environment, including customer protection and conduct-related risks.

• Demonstratable leadership skills, with the ability to coach and develop colleagues, foster collaboration and contribute positively to team performance and culture.

• A proactive, self-motivated and delivery-focused mindset, with the ability to work independently, take ownership, show initiative and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Location: Glasgow with 3 anchor days in the office.

You may be assessed on 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 provide assurance over the effectiveness of Compliance Risk Management across the bank. 

Accountabilities

• Development and refresh of the Compliance Assurance Annual Plan, ensuring that the Annual Plan focuses on areas of highest risk and value in relation to Compliance Risk.
• Delivery of risk-based assurance activity to validate the effectiveness of controls and processes designed to mitigate Compliance Risk.
• Identification of potential risks associated with non-compliance or control weaknesses in relation to Compliance Risk.
• Verbal and written communication of Compliance Assurance reports and issues to enhance the effectiveness of Compliance Risk management and oversight.
• Build, development and maintenance of effective relationships between Compliance Assurance and stakeholders across the three lines of defence.
• Proactive adoption of Data Analytics capabilities to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and coverage of Assurance work.
• Continued focus on the Barclays Mindset and Consistently Excellent to enhance the Assurance that we deliver, how it is delivered and the culture within the bank.

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.