Treasury Risk Oversight

Join us as a Treasury Risk Oversight manager in a high-impact team at the heart of the bank’s risk oversight function, specialising in funding and liquidity risk management. As Vice President within the second line of defence, you will lead oversight across four critical pillars: Internal Liquidity Stress Test modelling, Review & Challenge, Limit framework, and Regulatory engagement. This role provides unmatched exposure to the full breadth of financial products, offering a unique opportunity to become a subject matter expert in liquidity risk while developing your leadership and project management credentials.

Key Responsibilities:

• Modelling Ownership: Serve as model owner for key liquidity models, including setting and reviewing model assumptions to ensure they remain appropriate and robust.

• Review & Challenge: Independently review and challenge first line liquidity risk practices, and funding strategies, providing effective oversight and escalation where necessary.

• Limit Framework Management: Lead the definition, calibration, and monitoring of liquidity risk limits in alignment with the bank’s risk appetite. Partner with Treasury and business units to ensure adherence and resolve breaches.

• Regulatory Engagement: Represent the Risk function in external regulatory examinations and internal audit reviews. Provide clear and confident responses around methodology, governance, and controls.

• Stakeholder Management: Build good relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, to influence decisions and clarify expectations.

To be successful as a Treasury Risk Oversight manager, you should have experience with:

• Confirmed experience in liquidity risk, funding risk, or balance sheet management within a bank or financial services institution.

• In-depth understanding of regulatory liquidity metrics and frameworks (e.g. LCR, NSFR, ILST, PRA110, ILAAP framework).

• Good working knowledge of financial instruments, market dynamics, and stress testing techniques.

• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and drive deliverables under pressure.

• Good stakeholder and communication skills, with experience engaging cross-functional teams and external regulators.

• Previous management experience is desirable.

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.

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.