Director Regulatory Relations

We are seeking an experienced Director to join our Regulatory Relations team in Paris, supporting Barclays' engagement with European regulators, and helping shape the firm's regulatory strategy across Barclays Europe and the wider Group. The successful candidate will bring significant experience in regulatory, legal, compliance, regulatory management or corporate governance functions, together with a strong understanding of the European regulatory landscape and supervisory environment.

Working closely with senior stakeholders in Paris and London, the individual will be responsible for monitoring emerging regulatory developments and supervisory priorities, leveraging insights from the ECB and other European authorities to provide timely, strategic advice to business and functional leaders. The role will help ensure Barclays remains well-positioned to anticipate and respond to regulatory change, while maintaining strong and constructive relationships with key stakeholders.

The Director will play a central role in supporting the Barclays Europe Board and senior governance forums, coordinating high-quality materials, briefings and communications for Board, Executive Committee and regulatory engagements. The individual will act as a trusted adviser to senior leaders across Barclays Europe and the Group, ensuring consistent messaging, effective information flow and robust tracking of regulatory themes, requests and commitments. 

In addition, the role will support Barclays' public policy and advocacy agenda in France, helping to develop relationships with external stakeholders and contribute to thought leadership on key regulatory topics. The successful candidate will bring a strong Chief of Staff skillset, combining strategic thinking, exceptional organisational capability and excellent written communication skills to coordinate complex deliverables across multiple stakeholders and jurisdictions.

This is a high-profile role requiring exceptional judgement, strong communication and influencing skills, and the ability to operate independently in a complex, highly regulated environment. The successful candidate is likely to have 12+ years of relevant experience gained within a financial institution, regulatory authority, legal or compliance function, corporate governance team, or professional services environment, with a proven track record of supporting senior executives and navigating regulatory matters at the highest levels of an organisation.

Preferred Background

• Significant experience in Regulatory Relations, Compliance, Legal, Regulatory Management, Corporate Governance or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of European financial services regulation and the supervisory framework.
• Experience engaging with senior executives, board members and external stakeholders.
• Excellent written communication, briefing and reporting skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and coordinate complex cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience operating within an international organisation and working with stakeholders across both Paris and London.
• Strong strategic, organisational and stakeholder management capabilities consistent with a Chief of Staff profile.

Purpose of the role

To provide strategic advice and guidance on all aspects of regulatory engagement, while managing and coordinating the bank’s interactions with regulators, ensuring open and constructive regulatory relationships.

Accountabilities

• Central co-ordination point for all regulatory requests/ reviews/ examinations/ responses/ notifications and collaboration with relevant Accountable Executives to ensure timely and high quality delivery.
• Advising /briefing internal stakeholders for regulatory engagement, recording of all regulatory engagement and forwarding actions arising to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Provision of insightful and timely MI on regulatory engagement and priorities to internal stakeholders.
• Identification of emerging themes and issues and escalation to the appropriate stakeholders for resolution.
• Role model of Firm ambitions of Consistently Excellent are evidenced in all regulatory engagement.
• Information sharing across regions to ensure that the Firm is optimising global regulatory profile.
• Monitoring and evaluation of regulatory relationships, ensuring timely advice, escalation and execution where remedial action is required.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.

Minimum Salary: €120,000

The minimum salary information above includes only annual full-time equivalent base salary and typically represents the lowest level of pay for this role. The actual pay rate will reflect the responsibility level of the role and experience level of the individual. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available. Barclays employees are also eligible for a suite of competitive country-specific benefits. This position is eligible for an incentive award.