Internal Audit VP -Quality Assurance

Join us as a VP in BIA Quality Assurance, where you’ll play a key role in assessing and improving the quality of Barclays Internal Audit (BIA) assurance and operational practices. In this role, you will identify areas of risk, evaluate audit effectiveness, and provide strategic insights to enhance audit quality. Collaborate with key stakeholders to drive continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with industry standards. 

To be successful as a BIA Quality Assurance VP, you should have:

•  Expert understanding of audit methodology, risk, and control
•  Broad knowledge of internal auditing practices, standards and regulations
•  Written and verbal communication skills demonstrating a collaborative approach across a range of stakeholders, including senior colleagues

Other highly valued skills include:

• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and audit standards
• Ability to analyze data and provide meaningful insights
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree preferred

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 out of Whippany, NJ.

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.