Internal Audit Vice President - Quality Assurance

Embark your transformative journey as a Internal Audit Vice President - Quality Assurance. It is an independent team within Barclays Internal Audit focused on delivering a Quality Assurance and Improvement Programme (QAIP) covering all aspects of internal audit activity. The mandate of Quality Assurance is to provide oversight of the quality and sustainability of the audit team’s output and working with a diverse and global team, you will assess and report on the quality of Barclays Internal Audit’s work across the audit lifecycle. As a Quality Assurance Vice President, you will support the Head of Quality Assurance and have opportunities to engage with senior members of internal audit to help drive a culture that is consistently focused on quality and excellence. You play a key role in supporting Barclays Internal Audit function to maintain its high audit assurance standards while ensuring compliance with Barclays Group and Barclays Internal Audit policies, methodology and/or procedures, Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) standards and regulatory requirements.

To be successful as Internal Audit Vice President - Quality Assurance, you should possess:

• Expert understanding of audit methodology, risk and control.
• Broad knowledge of internal auditing practices, standards and regulations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills demonstrating a collaborative approach across a range of stakeholders, including senior colleagues.
• Proven team player, supporting colleagues to achieve team objectives.
• Critical thinking.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Practical understanding of Barclays’ regulatory environment.
• Knowledge of data analytics concepts and their applications.

You may be assessed on the 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.

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 that you 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 any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

Purpose of the role

To assess and uplift the quality of BIA’s assurance and operational practices.

Accountabilities

• Identification and targeting of areas of risk; contributing to the development of a risk based plan the QA.
• Assessment of the quality of assurance and the effectiveness of operational practices in line with QA’s plan and requirements in an insightful and timely manner.
• Collaboration and relationships development with stakeholders to develop quality initiatives, and action plans to monitor performance, improve business areas and govern operations.
• Communication of results and recommendations, both written and verbal.
• Identification of trends (internal and external) related to quality assurance and monitor compliance to regulatory standards and QA’s section of the audit charter.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.