Assistant Vice President - Legal Ops

Step into the role of Assistant Vice President - Legal Ops at Barclays, where you'll provide first-class support by conducting in-depth due diligence, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and safeguarding our clients and organization with expertise and care.

You will lead and coordinate the execution, streamlining, and automation of operational and process-oriented tasks within the Legal Operations team. You will drive process improvement, manage stakeholder relationships, and enable Legal professionals to focus on high-value activities by centralizing and optimizing routine tasks.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role such as:

• Lead the process of obtaining and validating approvals across stakeholders during document negotiation stages, leveraging orchestration tools and AI solutions.
• Oversee coordination of approval processes for various agreement types, ensuring efficiency and compliance.

• Supervise system updates for mergers, ensuring accurate reflection of surviving entities.
• Manage the setup of non-JB Arms AM/AH in relevant systems, optimizing workflows with orchestration tools.
• Oversee post-execution data capture for ISDA and local law equivalents, ensuring data integrity and quality control for downstream Treasury tracking.
• Support Legal Onboarding milestones, including product reviews, regulatory validation, and exception tracking for Jetbridge products.

• Lead data remediation activities (BAU and ad hoc), utilizing process enhancements, document repositories, and AI.
• Oversee bail-in and stay remediation, contributing to CCLT controls redesign and document repository management.

• Identify, evaluate, and implement orchestration tools, process enhancements, and AI solutions to automate and consolidate tasks.
• Collaborate with technology teams to enhance systems and workflows for improved efficiency and accuracy.

• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop high-performing teams in a dynamic environment.
• Experience in managing cross-functional teams and driving accountability for deliverables.
• Skilled in coaching, mentoring, and supporting professional growth.

• Strong relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders, including Legal, Operations, Technology, and senior management.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and influence decision-making at all levels.

• Expertise in process improvement, governance, and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize tasks, and deliver results under tight deadlines.

• Experience in leading change initiatives, including process redesign and technology adoption.
• Ability to coordinate change processes for data models and documentation standards.
• Commitment to maintaining high standards of data quality, compliance, and confidentiality.

Desirable skills sets:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Law, Business, Operations, or related field will be beneficial.
• Experience in legal operations, data management, or process improvement within financial services will be beneficial.
• Prior experience in an AVP or equivalent leadership role preferred.

• An understanding of legal documentation, contract terms, and financial agreements (ISDA, GMRA, CSA, PBAs) will be beneficial.
• Experience with data digitization platforms, orchestration tools, and AI-driven process automation.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to leverage data for insights and process improvements.

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 Pune.

Purpose of the role

To support business areas with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution. 

Accountabilities

• Support various business areas with day-to-day initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate operational processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations in operational processes.
• Development and implementation of operational procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on operational performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in banking operations.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• 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.