Controls Partner VP

Overview

Shape Risk and Resilience at Barclays – As a Controls Partner, VP, you’ll play a key role in strengthening the bank’s risk and control framework. You will perform a leadership function in assessing adherence to Barclays’ standards, evaluating the integrity of existing controls, and identifying gaps that could impact operational, financial, or reputational risk. Working within the USCB Chief Controls Office, you’ll collaborate with business partners to review remediation plans and design new solutions where needed — making a direct impact on safeguarding the bank and supporting its long-term resilience.

You’ll also contribute to documenting “end to end” processes, controls, reporting, and governance, ensuring seamless integration into Barclays’ control systems.

To be successful in your role as Controls Partner, VP, you should have:

• A background in financial services with experience in risk oversight and control activities, including issue resolution, documentation of safeguards, and Risk and Control Self-Assessment
• The ability to oversee and coordinate projects and work streams in a matrixed environment
• The ability to review processes, recognize potential risks, and establish the safeguards needed to reduce those risks. This includes evaluating requirements within Barclays Standards and ensuring existing documented safeguards meet expectations
• Demonstrated the ability to collaborate effectively with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to successfully complete assignments

• Prior gap assessment experience (preferred)
• Fin Tech experience (preferred)
• Prior Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) experience

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

This role is located in Wilmington, DE.

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 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.

• To 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, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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…