Controls Partner VP

Shape Risk and Controls at Barclays – As a Controls Partner, VP, you’ll play a key role in strengthening the bank’s technology risk and control framework.   This role is focused on assessing, designing, and enhancing controls that support technology platforms, digital processes, data, and change initiatives, helping ensure the bank operates safely, securely, and resiliently in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.  You will perform a leadership function in assessing adherence to Barclays’ standards, evaluating the integrity of existing controls, and identifying gaps that could impact operational, cyber, data, financial, or reputational risk. Working within the USCB Chief Controls Office, you’ll collaborate with business partners to review remediation plans and design new solutions where needed — making a direct impact on safeguarding the bank and supporting its long-term resilience. You’ll also contribute to documenting “end to end” processes, controls, reporting, and governance, ensuring seamless integration into Barclays’ control systems.

To be successful in your role as Controls Partner, VP, you should have:

• A background in financial services with experience in technology risk oversight and control activities, including issue resolution, documentation of safeguards, and Risk and Control Self-Assessment

• Experience assessing risks and controls across technology platforms, systems, data, digital processes or change initiatives

• The ability to oversee and coordinate projects and workstreams in a matrixed environment

• The ability to review processes, recognize potential risks, and establish the safeguards needed to reduce those risks. This includes evaluating requirements within Barclays Standards and ensuring existing documented safeguards meet expectations

• Demonstrated the ability to collaborate effectively with technology teams, product owners, and subject matter experts to deliver pragmatic, well embedded control solutions

Other highly valued skills include:

• Prior gap assessment experience (preferred)

• FinTech experience, digital banking, platforms, or emerging technologies (preferred)

• Familiarity with technology risk domains such as change management, access controls, data integrity, system resilience, and third party technology risk

• Prior Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) experience

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 Wilmington, DE.

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.  

Accountabilities

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

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.