IB Sustainability Client Controls

Join our global Investment Bank Sustainability Client Controls team as a Client Controls AVP, where you will work with a high-impact group dedicated to ensuring time-critical investment deals align with sustainability commitments and compliance standards. As a key member of this team, you’ll leverage your enhanced due diligence (EDD) expertise to navigate regulatory frameworks, enforce sustainability reporting, and support net-zero goals. As sustainability reshapes the industry, you will play a key role in aligning investments with impactful sustainability strategies.

To succeed as a Sustainability Client Controls AVP, you should have:

•    Proven experience in sustainability, ESG policy development, or a related field
•    Consultancy/Financial Services background
•    Experience in conducting due diligence, particularly in assessing sustainability and human rights compliance
•    Strong research skills with the ability to gather and analyse data effectively
•    Excellent communication skills, with the ability to prepare clear and concise reports for diverse audiences
•    An inquisitive and investigative mindset, with the ability to identify key insights and selling points for clients
•    Ability to engage with senior stakeholders effectively and professionally

Other highly valued skills include:

•    Knowledge of environmental and social impact assessment methodologies
•    Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and compliance standards related to ESG
•    Strong people skills to engage effectively with senior bankers and other stakeholders
•    Resilience and a principled approach to decision-making in complex situations

You may be assessed on 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:  $110,000.00
Maximum Salary: $150,000.00

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

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.