Internal Audit - VP

Step into the role as a Internal Audit – Vice President, where you will be ensuring that the bank’s risk and controls are properly managed in line with the firm’s policy and local regulatory requirements. You’ll work as Audit Lead, collaborate with our Audit Owners in teams across the regions to ensure a timely and efficient delivery. You will proactively support the Audit Directors or Country Head of Audits in regulatory submissions and engagement activities.

Your technical knowledge of Markets, Investment Banking businesses and experience in leading audits/driving initiatives in a relevant field will be vital in thriving in this role. Holding a professional qualification in Accounting or Audit (e.g. CIA, CPA, ACCA) is preferred.

Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English are essential, along with native-level proficiency in Japanese. This role will be based in our Tokyo office.

Key skills required for this role include:

• Risk and Controls
• Internal Auditing
• Regulatory Compliance Management

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.

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disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.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 lead the development and delivery of audits aligned to the bank’s standards and objectives

Accountabilities

• Leading the delivery of Continuous Monitoring activities, including engagement with senior stakeholders to discuss the relevance of business changes on risks, controls and the audit plan.
• Management of challenging stakeholder discussions regarding audit exceptions.
• Independent preparation and review of material in response to regulator requests.
• Management of actual or perceived conflicts to independence and objectivity for all owned audits.
• Development of an impactful annual audit plan.
• Production of audit reports, selecting the most appropriate language to use in different audit scenarios, with a clear understanding of the needs of the different users of the audit report.
• Management of the tracking, validation and closure of several audit issues across a portfolio, overseeing that issue closure is activity performed by others, ensuring they meet quality and timeline requirement and engaging effectively with stakeholders on contentious validation conclusions.

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.