Funding and Liquidity Risk AVP

As an Assistant Vice President in Funding and Liquidity Risk, you will play a pivotal role in managing funding and liquidity risk across the bank. You will take ownership of key liquidity models, ensuring assumptions remain robust and aligned with regulatory expectations. Your responsibilities will include independently reviewing and challenging first-line liquidity risk practices and funding strategies, providing effective oversight and escalating issues where necessary. You will lead the definition, calibration, and monitoring of liquidity risk limits, ensuring they align with the bank’s risk appetite and working closely with Treasury and business units to address any breaches.

In this role, you will represent the Risk function during regulatory examinations and internal audits, confidently articulating methodologies, governance frameworks, and control mechanisms. You will build and maintain relationships with both internal stakeholders and external regulators, influencing decisions and clarifying expectations. This is a high-impact position that offers broad exposure to financial products and a unique opportunity to deepen your expertise in liquidity risk while enhancing your leadership and project management capabilities.

To be successful in this role you should have experience with:

• Demonstrated understanding of liquidity risk, funding risk, or balance sheet management within a banking or financial services environment.
• Working knowledge of key regulatory liquidity metrics and frameworks (e.g. LCR, NSFR, ILST, PRA110, ILAAP) is desirable.
• Familiarity with financial instruments, market dynamics, and stress testing techniques.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes under pressure.
• Communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with experience working across cross-functional teams and interacting with external regulators.

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

Location: London

Purpose of the role

To safeguard the bank's financial stability by assessing, managing and mitigating liquidity risk, which revolves around the bank's ability to meet its short-term financial obligations and access funding at reasonable rates in different market conditions.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of a comprehensive liquidity risk framework, including metrics, forecasting models, liquidity limits and stress testing scenarios.
• Assessment, review and improvement of the adequacy and appropriateness of Treasury’s strategies to optimise the bank's liquidity position, including managing cash reserves, borrowing facilities, and asset-liability matching.
• Monitoring daily liquidity positions, inflows, outflows, and potential funding gaps and report on liquidity risk metrics to senior management and regulators.
• Identification and assessment of potential sources of liquidity risk, such as market volatility, customer withdrawals, and regulatory changes.
• Development and testing of contingency plans to address liquidity shortfalls and market disruptions and Implementation of corrective actions as needed to maintain adequate liquidity levels.

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.