AVP Risk and Control

Join us as an AVP Risk and Control at Barclays, where you will play a key role in supporting the Wholesale Lending Operations Leadership team in managing their internal control framework and supporting their obligations in accordance with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework and the Barclays Control Framework. In addition, the role holder will work with the Leadership team to promote a strong self-assessment culture and risk ownership by the line managers and team members alike. 

You will be responsible for the design, implementation and monitoring of an effective control environment ensuring Key Risk Indicators and operational procedures for functional areas remain in line with policies & standards with robust governance and reporting.

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver collaborative functional stakeholder support to include coaching, training and expertise on risk and control activity
• Ensure all operational risk events and near misses are captured in line with policies & standards
• Principle point of contact for all initiatives and changes that impact the control environment within allocated function(s) ensuring risks are identified at the onset of the change and appropriate mitigation measures are put in place.
• Drive improvements in control awareness and management capability 
• Support with the annual OneRA process for allocation function.
• Undertaken controls assurance for controls operated within Wholesale Lending in policies/ standards.
• Support with the identification of new and emerging risks through proactive process reviews.
• Ensure issues, dispensations/ waivers / breaches (DWB’s) and risk acceptances are raised, managed and closed in line with policies & standards.  
• Act as liaison point within function to support CCO, BIA and external audit programmes.
• Manage all governance activity for risk event & issues/actions in the approved system of record. 
• Develop and track control performance metrics providing support to improve control.
• Ensure the controls library is maintained and updated.
• Drive the controls assurance strategy and control optimisation for supported function.
• Proactively identify controls weakness and develop strategies to improve control strength.
• Support with embedding of all relevant policy/ standard requirements to ensure compliance

Person Specification

• Business experience within a Risk & Control, Operational Risk or Internal Audit Function.
• Strong operational experience and sound commercial judgement within a business environment.
• Flexibility and adaptability to varying scope and workload

Purpose of the role

To support Wholesale Lending with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution. 

Accountabilities

• Support with day-to-day Wholesale Lending initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution through lending technical expertise.
• Monitoring the bank’s lending operations to ensure that they are conducted in an efficient and effective manner and comply with relevant regulatory requirements.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate Wholesale Lending processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations for change in Wholesale Lending processes.
• Development and implementation of Wholesale Lending procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on Wholesale Lending performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in Wholesale Lending Services.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve Wholesale Lending efficiency and effectiveness.

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.