Regulatory Manager - Temporary Coverage

Join us as a Regulatory Change Manager works with our change management teams to ensure oversight and delivery of RI regulatory change across all global locations.  This involves scanning the regulatory horizon and helping to define and sign off the exact requirements and delivery plan to ensure regulatory compliance. This involves helping to interpret the regulation into business requirements on what is acceptable to meet a regulation. You will work as part of the project team to deliver solutions that balance regulatory compliance, a robust client and colleague experience whilst meeting commercial objectives. You must agree prioritisation of work and any items in backlog and collaborate with change colleagues to drive and deliver implementation, whilst taking the lead where appropriate to ensure effective on time delivery. You will be the business lead and interface to ensure the correct representation on projects and collection of views across business areas impacted is sought. The role ensures consistency where possible of a global approach and oversight to escalate issues and decisions where necessary. The role may include delivering training to colleagues and having to create and contribute to client facing and internal material.

The role also includes contributing to the wider objectives of the Responsible Investing team with a focus on ensuring effective controls and operating models are in place and maintained.

Essential Skills:

• Staying up to date with existing and emerging Sustainable and Responsible Investing (RI) regulation, market practice and standards. 

• Deliver projects to meet regulatory and business control requirements, collaborating with external and internal stakeholder management (project management team, compliance, legal, technology etc.).

• Contribute to content of internal and external documents relating to regulatory requirements.

• Working with technology teams to identify effective and scalable approaches to deliver changes. 

• Provide RI SME knowledge to investment teams on Sustainable regulatory matters.

• Support training to share knowledge of Sustainable regulation with colleagues i.e. senior management, investment teams and client facing colleagues. 

• Manage annual greenwashing attestations.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

• Ability and flexibility to successfully manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment and work collaboratively with the RI team to deliver the best outcomes for clients.

• This role requires a self-motivated, innovative individual with an ability to relate technical Sustainable/ RI concepts to a wide range of stakeholders.

Presentation skills

• Demonstrate excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to articulate regulatory changes succinctly and accurately to the RI team and where necessary to the investment teams and senior management.
• Be persuasive and robust in championing views to obtain ongoing support for the RI programme of work.

Industry experience

• The candidate will preferably have knowledge of Sustainability / RI within an Investment management or consultancy firm.
• Familiarity with Sustainable Investing regulation i.e. SFDR and SDR.    
• Preferably an understanding of the UK Stewardship Code, PRI, TCFD and SASB frameworks.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Willingness to undertake CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.

Purpose of the role

To develop and manage the success of specific financial products and services, providing in-depth expertise on a particular product line, bridging the gap between product development, marketing, sales, and customer service. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of SME expertise on specific products and services to customers and colleagues, including features, functionalities, benefits, limitations, risks and compliance.
• Identification of market trends, new features, regulatory requirements and potential risks, and analysis of data obtained from sales figures and, customer feedback, to support the product strategy and development process, and communicate key findings to relevant stakeholders to improve and implement new product offerings.
• Response to colleague and stakeholder inquiries, resolution of issues, and provision of guidance on product usage.  .
• Presentation of the advantages and features of the product to potential customers and stakeholders, building trust and encouraging adoption.
• Assistance with the development and execution of marketing materials for the product, such as brochures, presentations, and online content.
• Participation in and delivery of training sessions and workshops to share product knowledge and expertise with colleagues and other stakeholders.
• Participation in events, conferences, and other networking opportunities to showcase the product and generate interest.

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.