Control Business Partner

Overview

Join Barclays as a Control Business Partner, where you will play a critical role in identifying and managing remediation plans across multiple Barclays teams, including Risk, Finance and Technology. In this high-impact role, you’ll be responsible for identifying gaps, coordinating action plans, and ensuring timely execution of remediation activities. You’ll thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities, where creative problem-solving and adaptability are essential.

Your analytical skills will be used in developing and presenting weekly scorecards that highlight progress, risks and issues to senior stakeholders. You will work with cross-functional teams to resolve complex challenges and improve operational efficiency.

• Identifying gaps, coordinating action plans, and ensuring timely execution of remediation activities across multiple Barclays teams.
• Developing and presenting weekly scorecards that highlight progress, risks and issues to senior stakeholders.
• Working with cross-functional teams to resolve complex challenges and improve operational efficiency.

• Extensive experience with Excel, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP, and macros
• Practical experience working with reporting tools such as Tableau
• Background in reporting within a regulated environment
• Exposure to risk and control frameworks, including identifying process gaps and taking corrective actions
• Ability to excel in a dynamic and evolving work environment
• Proven problem-solving skills, solving complex issues with multiple stakeholders
• Experience working with stakeholders across multiple business lines to influence required action

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
• 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 perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources
• People Leaders are expected to demonstrate leadership behaviours with the LEAD framework:
  Listen, Energise, Align, Develop
• For individual contributors, develop technical expertise in the work area and act as an advisor where appropriate
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area and will partner with other functions and business areas
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities
• Escalate breaches of policies and procedures appropriately
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies and procedures adopted due to risk mitigation
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with…