Business Control Officer - Regulatory Frameworks

Join us as a Business Control Officer – Regulatory Framework, to strengthen governance and oversight processes across our Markets business. Our team works together to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, reduce risks, and build frameworks that help the business operate effectively and responsibly.

You will collaborate with senior stakeholders across Front Office, Operations, Compliance, Assurance, and Technology teams. Your focus will be on designing, improving, and remediating processes, simplifying workflows, and supporting automation. You will also help ensure adherence to US regulatory requirements and maintain touchpoints with European regulations.

A key part of your work is identifying and addressing gaps in processes, partnering on remediation, and supporting governance frameworks that reduce operational and regulatory risk.

To be successful as a Business Control Officer – Regulatory Framework, you should have experience with:

• Experience with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which regulates U.S. derivatives markets; the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which oversees securities markets and enforces investor protection laws; and Volcker regulations, which restrict proprietary trading and certain relationships with hedge funds and private equity, or supporting products that are in-scope for these regulatory frameworks.
• Risk oversight within Markets, with the ability to identify and address potential risks.
• Designing, improving, and remediating processes to meet regulatory and operational standards.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Effective stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build relationships and achieve outcomes at senior levels.
• Ability to deliver projects and outcomes within agreed timelines.
• Problem-solving capabilities, with a focus on practical solutions and continuous improvement.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in 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 will be based in Glasgow.

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.

• 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 the 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.

• 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…