Issues Management and Governance Reporting BA4

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Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays,

you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific, and any changes must be reviewed. It is important to ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or employment offer being withdrawn at any time.To provide independent review and challenge of the Operational Risk elements of particular risk categories across the bank for BUK. Ensuring they are carried out in accordance with Barclays Operational Risk Framework, Policies, and Standards

Location: Noida

The Role holder will have to drive and assist Risk Function: Control Oversight team of Governance, Issue Management, and Controls metrics.Your role will require:

• It will be required to develop, improve, maintain and run key controls to ensure excellent and consistent risk management
• Ensure Compliance to Operational of Committee Policy, Controls Committee Standards and other
• BCF Standards requirement for all Committees / Fora
• Ensuring compliance with Bank’s Issue Management policies & procedures and Barclays Control Framework It will involve producing necessary MI and deep-dive analysis to arrive at appropriate conclusions

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Graduate any Discipline
• Must have work experience preferably in Risk and Controls
• Confident and articulate with the ability to deal with multiple stakeholders, at all corporate levels including senior management
• Ability to multi-task and co-ordinate across multiple teams across various businesses and differing levels of seniority. And Highly organised    individual, with strong attention to detail, and effective, clear communication skills, both written and oral
•  Strong analytical skills, with the ability to review, digest and challenge a wide range of complex process, structural and system related information.

Desirable skills/ Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience of working in a Risk, Controls, Governance or Assurance function.
• Experience and knowledge of the Risk function and its key activities
• Experience with a data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau or equivalent)
• Experience in VBA / Python / Power App will be added advantage

Purpose of the role

To partner with the bank, to provide independent insurance on control processes and advise on improvements to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the bank’s internal controls framework.  

Accountabilities

• Collaboration across the bank to maintain a satisfactory, robust, and efficient control environment through the execution of ad-hoc assessments and testing on the design and operational effectiveness of the internal controls, aligned to control policies and standards.
• Development of detailed test plans and procedures to identify weaknesses in internal controls and other initiatives aligned to the bank’s control framework to mitigate any potential risks and issues, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations, potential losses, and reputational impact.
• Communication of key findings and observations to the relevant stakeholders and business units to improve overall control efficiency and provide corrective actions to senior managers. Collaboration with other control professionals to resolve complex issues and ensure consistent testing methodologies across the bank.
• Development of a knowledge centre containing detailed documentation of control assessments, testing on design and operational effectiveness of procedures, findings, and the distribution of material on internal controls to train and upskill colleagues within the bank.

Analyst Expectations

• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.