Treasury & Capital Risk – VP (Digital Assets)

Join us in this exciting Treasury & Capital Risk – VP (Digital Assets) role! You’ll step into a role that sits at the heart of Barclays’ evolving approach to digital assets, shaping how the bank manages liquidity, ALM, and treasury‑related financial risks as new technologies emerge. This is a chance to influence strategy in a space where traditional balance‑sheet disciplines meet next‑generation technological solutions. Candidates who thrive here tend to love complexity, cross‑functional problem‑solving, and high‑visibility stakeholder engagement — and you’ll have all three in abundance.

To be successful as a Treasury & Capital Risk – VP (Digital Assets), you should have experience with:

• Liquidity risk management — deep understanding of liquidity metrics, stress testing, and funding profiles.
• ALM risk — familiarity with interest‑rate risk, structural hedging, balance‑sheet dynamics, and treasury frameworks.
• Financial risk analysis — ability to interpret risk drivers, model outcomes, and challenge assumptions.

Some other highly valued skills may include

• Digital asset knowledge — helpful but not essential; ability to translate emerging‑tech concepts into risk implications.
• Stakeholder management — comfort working with Treasury, Risk, Technology, and senior leadership.
• Executive communication — clarity in presenting complex risk topics to non‑technical audiences.

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 managing interest rate risk in the banking book, primarily associated with Asset Liability management risk activities including Treasury funding and investment positions in the banking book.

Accountabilities

• Analysis of the bank's asset and liability profile, including maturity mismatches, interest rate sensitivity, and cash flow projections.
• Development and implementation of investment risk and asset liability risk management frameworks and policies in line with regulatory requirements and internal risk frameworks.
• Monitoring and reporting on key Asset liability risk management metrics, such as net interest income sensitivity, economic value of equity sensitivity and duration gap.
• Identification, assessment, and monitoring of risks associated with the bank's investment portfolio, including market risk (interest rate, equity, FX), credit risk, and operational risk.
• Performance of stress testing and scenario analysis to assess the impact of potential macro economic scenarios on the Banking book portfolio.

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.