Markets Resilience Lead

Markets Resilience Lead

Join us as a Markets Resilience Lead in Global Security at Barclays, where you'll oversee and protect the bank’s resilience, manage resilience issues and work closely with our policies.

Essential Criteria

• Experience in Markets, Trade Operations or Resilience.
• Solid background in risk, controls and issue management.
• Experienced in interpreting policy, standards and controls and how to measure and manage compliance against them.
• Experience in managing data quality, reporting and assurance processes.

A background or working knowledge in Operational Resilience, Technology and Supplier Risk; or a background or working knowledge of Governance and Reporting is highly valued.

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

Purpose of the Role

To develop, implement, and maintain an effective resilience strategy and Operational Recovery Planning and Incident Management framework aligned to industry-leading standards and controls and regulatory expectations, to enable the bank to respond and recover important business services to severe but plausible scenarios, and minimise the impact on customers, clients, colleagues and the wider market.

Accountabilities

• Socialisation and implementation of the resilience strategy and underpinning framework across the firm, ensuring compliance with the standard and controls.
• Development and enhancement of the resilience, crisis and incident management framework to uplift recovery and response capabilities.
• Operational Recovery Planning and Security Incident Management planning standards and controls enhancement.
• Provide oversight to the business and technology recovery capability improvements.
• Communication of the firm’s resilience position through clear and transparent scorecards/dashboards.
• Enhancement of resilience, crisis management and incident response and recovery capability through sophisticated, regular and adequate testing coverage.
• Assurance that services and products are built resiliently by the business through the change management process.
• Continually remain abreast of resilience and crisis and incident management developments, regulatory policy requirements and the emerging landscape.
• Mitigation of the impact of unexpected incidents by identifying, responding to and enabling the resolution of events that threaten the bank's services.
• Execution of responses to reported incidents and potential threats.
• Documentation and analysis of past prioritised incident details, the steps to resolution and the lessons learnt.

Vice President Expectations

• Advise key stakeholders 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 your team's work.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives.

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.