Asset Servicing Oversight VP

Embark on a transformative journey as an Asset Servicing Oversight VP. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role you will guide impactful change across the Asset Servicing landscape. We are seeking a VP with deep end-to-end knowledge of corporate actions, income, proxy, and other Asset Servicing processes, combined with experience partnering with technology teams to design, enhance, and implement strategic platform capabilities. The ideal candidate will serve as a subject matter expert who can translate complex operational workflows into clear, structured requirements, enabling the delivery of scalable solutions that support business growth and meet regulatory expectations.

To be successful as an Asset Servicing Oversight VP, you should have:

• Ability to lead end‑to‑end change deliverables across Asset Servicing, ensuring that requirements, design, and implementation align with global operating models

• Experience to create and present clear process flows for corporate actions, income, proxy, and other event types to support shared understanding across business and technology teams

• Expertise to provide subject‑matter insights during architecture discussions, backlog refinement, solution reviews, and testing activities

• Understanding to collaborate effectively with global operations, product, controls, and technology partners to deliver changes that meet business objectives, regulatory needs, and risk standards

• Ability to identify and drive opportunities to optimize processes and automate workflows while producing high‑quality documentation, including BRDs, user stories, and functional flows

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Comprehensive understanding of global Asset Servicing processes, market practices, and lifecycle events across multiple regions

• Experience collaborating with technology teams to define system logic, event flows, data models, and exception pathways

• Ability to translate operational challenges into structured requirements and communicate them effectively to developers, architects, and senior stakeholders

• Familiarity with agile delivery practices, including backlog management, user story creation, and test planning

• Analytical mindset with careful attention to detail, enabling identification of gaps and development of practical, effective solutions

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.

Minimum Salary: $155,000

Maximum Salary: $200,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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.

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.