Technology Chief Controls Office India Branch

We are seeking a seasoned Technology Risk and Controls Lead to support our India branch business. The role holder would be responsible for ensuring the Bank’s internal controls framework effectively mitigates operational, financial, and reputational risks. You will lead Technology regulatory submissions and inspections, support internal and external audits, and enable compliance across Technology, Cyber, and Data domains.

Key Responsibilities:

• Map local Technology, Cyber, and Data regulations to the Bank’s internal policies and standards; identify and drive closure of the compliance gaps, if any.
• Develop and execute mitigation plans and ensure continuous regulatory compliance.
• Support internal and external audit readiness, advisory, and remediation efforts across IT, Cybersecurity, and Data domains.
• Drive and maintain controls governance activities, meetings, and reporting in alignment with the bank’s Operational Risk Management Framework (ORMF) and Controls Standard.
• Act as a Country point of contact for regulatory engagements, audit functions, and Technology senior management.
• Provide strategic advisory to branch management on due care and due diligence responsibilities.

Basic/essential/mandatory skills:

• Working knowledge of India Technology, Cybersecurity, and Data regulations for the financial industry, with hands-on experience conducting regulatory gap assessments and compliance engagement.
• Experience managing/supporting IT, Cyber, and Data-related audits, including audit preparedness and remediation advisory.
• Proven ability in Technology and Cyber Risk & Controls Governance, including managing governance forums, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Experience supporting business change programs in the financial industry with a focus on regulatory and internal controls compliance.
• Strong communication skills with a track record of engaging senior management on risk and controls posture.
• Exposure to Public Cloud risk management and experience conducting regulatory and internal gap assessments related to cloud adoption and data localization restrictions.
  

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

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• 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.