US COO Regulatory Response (AVP)

Join Barclays as a Regulatory Response AVP in the US COO Regulatory Engagement team. You will oversee the management and delivery of regulatory responses across the US COO, ensuring consistency and efficiency. Your role involves setting up and running COO-wide processes and activities to ensure compliance with regulatory requests, exams, and enquiries, as well as coordinating regular COO meetings with regulators. Evaluate existing processes and controls and propose improvements to enhance the control environment. This is an exciting opportunity to drive regulatory excellence and operational effectiveness at Barclays.

To be successful as a Regulatory Response AVP, you should have experience with:

• Proven ability to engage with and earn the trust of a wide range of senior stakeholders

• Considerable focus on process and project management, enabling effective delivery of concurrent engagements

• A critical mindset with a good ‘check and challenge’ or independent reviewer approach

• Operating both tactically—for quick turnarounds—and strategically, as the function evolves

• Understanding of regulatory frameworks and/or the products and services offered by large, complex financial institutions such as Barclays, ideally including US-regulated entities

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree

• Project/portfolio management, operations, or strategy

• Financial services, preferably within Markets, Consumer Finance, or key COO functions such as Operations or Technology

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Mindset of accountability for delivery

• Experience working on technology and/or operations regulatory projects/deliveries

• Ops, Tech, or other COO area experience desirable

• Ability to work at senior manager levels, with considerable stakeholder management and influencing skills

• Record of process improvement (identification and implementation)

• Consistently demonstrates integrity, fairness and professional conduct

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 and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Whippany, New Jersey.

Minimum Salary: $130,000
Maximum Salary: $160,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes 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 oversee that the bank operates in adherence to established framework, policies, and standards, laws, rules, regulations, and internal controls.

Accountabilities

• Analysis of processes, transactions, and activities across various business units to assess adherence to policies, regulations, and internal controls.
• Interviews, documentation review, and data analysis to gather evidence of compliance.
• Identification and reporting of deviations or non-conformities, documenting findings and recommendations for corrective action.
• Analysis of the effectiveness of existing controls and recommend enhancements to strengthen the control environment.

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.