TM Risk and Governance

Join our TM Risk and Governance team, where you will provide leadership, management, and broad support to the Head of TM Risk and Governance. You will help drive the overall end-to-end strategy and ensure adherence to TM processes and controls via governance oversight. The role also requires leadership and strong management capabilities, acting as a deputy for the function’s Director as needed.

Key Requirements

To be successful as a TM Risk and Governance team member, you should have:

• Experience with issue management and TM Risk Assessments
• The ability to provide leadership and coaching across the function
• Experience with Governance forums

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as:

• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology

as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the Role

To design, develop, and consult on the bank’s internal controls framework and supporting policies and standards across the organisation, ensuring it is robust, effective, and aligned with the bank’s overall strategy and risk appetite.

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of emerging and evolving risks across functions to understand their potential impact and likelihood.
• Communication of the purpose, structure, and importance of the control framework to all relevant stakeholders, including senior management and audit.
• Support in developing and implementing the bank's internal controls framework and principles tailored to the bank's specific needs and risk profile, including design, monitoring, and reporting initiatives.
• Monitoring and maintenance of the controls frameworks, to ensure compliance and adjust and update as internal and external requirements change.
• Embedment of the control framework across the bank through cross collaboration, training sessions, and awareness campaigns that foster a culture of knowledge sharing and improvement in risk management and the importance of internal control effectiveness.

Vice President Expectations

• 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: define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities: demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards. The four LEAD behaviours are: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For individual contributors: they will be subject matter experts within their own discipline and will guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments.
• 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 assessments, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls related to your team's work.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of organisational functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas, to keep up with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought by comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking is 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 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. 😊