Corporate Secretarial Americas VP

Join Barclays as a Corporate Secretarial Americas VP, where you will bring substantial board governance and legal entity management experience to the oversight of corporate governance activities for Barclays US subsidiaries. You will advise and partner with Board and committee members, senior executives, and other key stakeholders to support effective governance frameworks, sound decision-making, and compliance with regulatory expectations for financial institutions. The role will lead the preparation of high-quality Board and committee agendas, papers, and minutes, while helping to ensure that governance processes, decision records, and follow-up actions are clear, accurate, and effective. You will also apply deep legal entity management expertise to oversee complex subsidiary structures, maintain corporate records, manage statutory filing obligations, and strengthen the control environment across a complex banking organization.

To be successful as a Corporate Secretarial Americas VP at Barclays, you should have:

• Board governance experience, with a demonstrated track record of advising and supporting Boards and committees within a regulated financial services environment, including knowledge of governance frameworks, decision-making protocols, and prudential regulatory requirements.

• Board and committee operations expertise, including the preparation and quality review of agendas, governance materials, and Board papers; coordination with senior stakeholders; and drafting clear, accurate, and comprehensive minutes that capture key discussions, decisions, actions, and regulatory considerations.

• Legal entity management experience, with responsibility for complex subsidiary portfolios, corporate recordkeeping, compliance with legal entity statutory obligations, and legal entity lifecycle events.

Other highly valued skills and experience include:

• Senior stakeholder engagement and judgment, with the credibility to work effectively with Board and committee members, senior executives, legal advisers, auditors, and regulators, and to provide practical guidance on governance and legal entity matters.

• Executive-level written and verbal communication, including the ability to distill complex governance, legal, and regulatory information into concise Board materials, minutes, resolutions, and other corporate records.

• Risk, controls, and technical capability, including an understanding of governance risk and control frameworks and hands-on experience with governance, legal entity management, or document management platforms like Diligent, Kube, and iManage.

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.

This role is based in New York, NY.

Minimum Salary: $180,000
Maximum Salary: $210,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the role

To play a crucial role in ensuring the Barclays Group’s adherence to statutory and regulatory corporate governance requirements and industry standards, facilitating communication between the board of directors and other key stakeholders for regulated and/or significant Barclays Group legal entities. 

Accountabilities

• Act as Company Secretary to regulated or significant legal entities, including liaison with the Chairman and senior executives, assisting with board succession and board and committee evaluations, agenda preparation, board paper management, attending and minuting board meetings where required.
• Provision of support, advice and guidance to the Barclays Group on company law and appropriate regulations, its own policies and best practice in corporate governance and to the Directors on their fiduciary duties and other legal or regulatory obligations.
• Creation and review of corporate governance documents, including charters, terms of reference, matters reserved for the board, policies, and procedures in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
• Maintenance of compliance with corporate governance requirements, best practices and industry standards across the Barclays Group governance practices.
• Assistance on project work, for instance corporate re-organisations, liquidations, mergers and formations and the signing of subsidiary financial accounts.
• Maintenance of the company’s statutory registers, other registers such as conflict of interest registers, and data fields required for adherence to Barclays Group policies and standards .
• Stakeholders support with their ongoing compliance with the Group Policy on Legal Entities and Directors.

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.