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Date live:
Jan. 30, 2025
Business Area:
CIB & Regional Management
Area of Expertise:
Business Management
Reference Code:
JR-0000038097
Contract:
Permanent
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Explore locationEssential Skills:
Exceptional verbal and written business communication abilities.
Deep understanding of the commercialisation of processes and outputs.
Creative, proactive, analytical, and self-starting mindset.
Ability to move with pace and enthusiasm.
Superb attention to detail with the ability to foresee problems and opportunities and take action.
Skill in managing multiple competing priorities for optimal commercial outcomes.
Extensive experience in the Financial Services industry.
Working knowledge of the Investment Bank.
Exceptional relationship-building skills, with the confidence and calmness to interact with C-Suite level executives.
Expert proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint.
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
Proven experience running governance procedures for an Executive office.
Hands-on experience working in cross-functional/multi geographicalsettings.
Understanding of Finance & Accounting concepts.
Prior Chief of Staff experience is a plus.
Purpose of the role
The overall objective of the IB Chief of Staff (CoS)team is to run a proactive, and commercially-drivenbook of work with a keen attention to detail, with collaborating across the firmto deliver exceptional results.
Reporting directly to the Chief of Staff, the team also supports wider stakeholders at the C-Suite level, as well as external clients, and partners across the firm.
The established IB CoS team provides comprehensive support and leverage to the Head of IB/President of Barclays Bank Plc in executing the IB-wide strategic agenda, with individual roles encompassing a range of activities to deliver this support and broaden the impact of the initiatives, withend-to-end support from design to delivery.
Overview of Role
The position offers a valuable opportunity to understand the inner workings of the IB business and enhance connectivity with senior management. The successful candidate should possess strong business writing skills, the ability to synthesise complex information for senior management, and some working knowledge of the Investment Bank.
The team works across four pillars, as described below. A number of roles are available and while specialism in particular areas is expected, a goal for the team is to cross-train and work in a fungible way.
Drive Strategic Projects: Quarterback for strategic projects led fromthe IB CoS office
Create commercial impactful project plans.
Set-up and run working groups while managing a larger set of senior stakeholders with cares on the projects.
Design and implement projectsmanagement tools that facilitate the delivery of large, complex multi- stakeholder projects where most of the deliverables are sat outside the team.
Connect dots, draw out themes and follow-ups across multiple projects in the team to maximise commercial outcomes, and to drive simplification across the IB and firm.
Manage Strategic Content: Drive, own and execute IB CoS office keycontent deliverables
Ranging across Board decks,Group Executive Committee content, Investment Bank Management Team (IBMT) agendas/actions,briefing packs, regulatory engagement and more.
Deliver sharp, timely analytics and insights on broad business inputs: financial, people, commercial, process, governance.
Collaborate across teams and functions to secure, interpret, and express views clearly, concisely.
Utilise expert PowerPoint, Excel, Word skills to demonstrate best-in-class business communication.
Co-ordinate Commercial Client Engagement: Conceptualise and action a strategic client agenda for seniorleaders in the IB
Lead on proactive and reactive client, travel and events agenda: using quantitative and qualitative inputs to select and evaluate client data and opportunities.
Drive and support seamless client coverage to help realise the revenue potential that exists from better cross-selling to our most important clients.
Design, own, manage and execute entire client and externalstakeholder prep and delivery to maximise commercial outcomes and minimize bureaucracy.
Use judgement to review and give feedback on inputs, constantly casting for ways to maximise the long-term commercial impact, while being collaborative across the firm and executing with true finesse.
Deep understanding of client behaviour. Takes holistic view of clients’ goals and has a view on how Barclay’s can work to deliver on them.
Drive Governance & Process: Own and execute rules, practices, and processes bywhich BBPLC and the IB operate
Build out, organize and run multiple leadership logistics to drive the smooth operation of the IB and BBPLC. Such as co-ordinate and manage theIBMT, BBPLC Executive Committee meetings, Global IB Management Team Leadership Offsites and more.
Know, learn, understand complex regulatory and governance frameworks such as attestations, SMR, Consumer Duty, Compliance and Risk frameworks and how they are implemented from this office to meet internal and external risk, regulator, and corporate accountability requirements.
Lead optimisation and automation efforts for governance and process within the office, with a view to scaling and delivering these solutions across the IB and the wider firm. Innovate to simplify, and communicatepractice broadly across the entity.
Provide risk and control oversight, crisis management, and ensure business continuity.
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.
