Research Business Controls Officer

Join us at Barclays as a Research Business Controls Officer. This role sits within the first line of defence.

Key responsibilities include:

• Remediation of identified risks and control issues in partnership with the business.
• Support of regulatory change projects, acting as a central point of contact between the business and strategic change programmes.
• Ensuring that Barclays has adequate frameworks in place to comply with the regulatory requirements relating to oversight over Appointed Representatives.
• Support engagement with BIA on plans, progress and results for audit activity impacting the business.
• Manage key internal stakeholders, provide reporting to senior stakeholders including ExCo, boards and committees as required.
• Work with stakeholders across the three lines of defence to ensure that the frameworks and controls supporting Research are effectively implemented.
• Provide general governance and control advisory services to Research business.

Skills required to be successful in this role:

• Understanding of Markets business through previous business experience (Front Office) or from direct support functions (Business Management / Chief Operating Office, Business Controls, Compliance, Audit etc.).
• An understanding of, or exposure to, Research business preferable.
• Risk and control experience including implementation of controls.
• Problem solving and high level of attention to detail.
• Strong Communication and Influencing skills.
• Operational Process knowledge.

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

Purpose of the role

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

Accountabilities

• 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

• 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.