Control Business Partner

Join us as an Control Business Partner, where you will play a key role in supporting risk, governance, and control initiatives across the APAC & Middle East Corporate Banking business. The role focuses on enhancing the risk management framework, simplifying processes, and ensuring robust oversight across products and regions.

To be successful as an Control Business Partner:
You will need strong knowledge of corporate banking products, experience working on control, audit, or compliance initiatives,  and the ability to drive outcomes through effective data analysis and senior stakeholder engagement.

You may be assessed on:

• Understanding and application of risk, controls, and governance frameworks.

• Experience conducting control reviews, RCSAs, and thematic assessments

• Ability to build strong partnerships across business, product, and support functions

• Driving process improvement and sustainability while maintaining high attention to detail

Basic/Essential Qualifications:

• Prior experience in corporate banking, with exposure to risk, audit, compliance, or controls.

• Strong knowledge of banking governance frameworks and regulatory expectations

• Experience working with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams

• Strong analytical skills with ability to provide actionable insights.

• Excellent verbal and written communication with high degree of precision

• Experience in process improvement and performance control.

Desirable Skillsets/Good to Have:

• Self starter with a continuous improvement mindset

• Ability to simplify complex issues and influence decision-making

• Experience in managing junior colleagues or contributing to learn development

• Well-organised and able to manage multiple deliverables independently

• Proven ability to navigate regulatory environments and deliver under pressure.
  
  Job location is Mumbai.

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.  

Accountabilities

• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

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.