Regulatory Relations VP

As a Vice President within the bank's Regulation Relations team, you will play a key role in the execution of the team’s collective responsibility for managing the firm's relationships with UK regulators and overseeing the day-to-day supervisory engagement with our regulatory counterparts at the PRA and FCA. This role involves proactive and ongoing management of regulatory reviews and information requests, including any associated interactions, e.g. full meeting and interview coverage, documentation requests, presentations etc. The role also involves developing and communicating insights on regulatory relationships, both internally and externally, and assisting with defining and implementing regulatory strategy for BUK.

Key Accountabilities:

• Establish, maintain and oversee strong and effective relationships with external UK regulators, facilitating consistently excellent engagement strategy and narrative
• Act as a single point of contact for external regulators and oversee day-to-day supervisory interactions.
• Provide support to internal stakeholders on supervisory topics to enable high quality engagement with regulators
• Develop and communicate insights on regulatory relationships to internal stakeholders and act as a trusted advisor, ensuring appropriate preparation for all interactions
• Shape supervisory engagement into a proactive and strategic dialogue for the firm; deliver and evaluate effectiveness of the firm's regulatory strategy
• Syndicate management information on regulatory matters across the regulatory relations team and more broadly across the organisation (e.g. ExCo’s, Committees, Boards and Board Committees, as well as regular Regulatory Relations MIS and real time news bulletins)
• Advise internally on responses to positions taken by and thinking of regulators (e.g. letters), regulatory views of specific transactions or business opportunities, changes at the regulators / to regulator personnel and their implication; and on the status of commitments to regulators
• Use the client relationship management technology platform (“CRM”) to record and log regulatory engagements, correspondence, and communications
• Oversight of day-to-day supervisory interactions will involve:
  • Proactive management of regulatory reviews, information requests and notifications;
  • Engaging relevant subject matter specialists and internal stakeholders on regulatory requests;
  • Facilitate discussion with regulators around timelines and requested information;
  • Provide briefing and background and advise on regulators’ interests;
  • Ensure timely delivery and optimal quality of responses to regulators;
  • Attend meetings with regulators, draft meeting notes, and ensure delivery of follow ups.

Essential Criteria

• Good understanding of financial services business and of the UK financial services regulatory environment.
• Experience of dealing with regulators, possibly gained through working in a regulator or financial services areas of a professional services firm.
• Excellent communication skills - spoken and written and an ability to explain complex regulatory issues and topics at a non-technical level.
• High levels of initiative and an ability to anticipate and solve problems.
• Strong coordination and organisation skills and ability to multi-task and turnaround requests quickly under pressure
• Excellent team player who reflects the Barclays Mindset.

Other highly valued Criteria:

• Someone who is highly motivated and wants to work in a successful team.
• Ability to prioritise conflicting work demands.
• Proven experience producing Insight led reports for senior leadership

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

This is a permanent role based in London

Purpose of the role

To provide strategic advice and guidance on all aspects of regulatory engagement, while managing and coordinating the bank’s interactions with regulators, ensuring open and constructive regulatory relationships.

Accountabilities

• Central co-ordination point for all regulatory requests/ reviews/ examinations/ responses/ notifications and collaboration with relevant Accountable Executives to ensure timely and high quality delivery.
• Advising /briefing internal stakeholders for regulatory engagement, recording of all regulatory engagement and forwarding actions arising to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Provision of insightful and timely MI on regulatory engagement and priorities to internal stakeholders.
• Identification of emerging themes and issues and escalation to the appropriate stakeholders for resolution.
• Role model of Firm ambitions of Consistently Excellent are evidenced in all regulatory engagement.
• Information sharing across regions to ensure that the Firm is optimising global regulatory profile.
• Monitoring and evaluation of regulatory relationships, ensuring timely advice, escalation and execution where remedial action is required.

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.