Controls Professional

Controls Professional

Shape the Future of Our Risk and Control Environment – Bring your judgement, partnership, and analytical strength to help us safeguard the organization. Join us as a Controls Professional, where you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Investment Banking Businesses in sustaining a robust risk and control culture across the business. In this position, you’ll help drive key programmes across product areas, ensuring remediation activity is delivered effectively and in close partnership with business management and the COO organisation. You will chair the senior Investment Banking Risk & Control Committee, guiding meaningful discussions that strengthen oversight and judgement. Your work will include monitoring and reporting on the Investment Banking control framework while collaborating with senior stakeholders across all three Lines of Defence. You’ll also promote forward‑looking risk awareness by conducting deep‑dive analyses, identifying emerging themes, and providing actionable insights that help mitigate gaps and reinforce a safe and sound operating environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the integrity and effectiveness of the bank's internal control framework to support risk mitigation and protect the bank's operational, financial, and reputational risk.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identify and investigate 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.
• Develop reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execute reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implement adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.
• Contribute to 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.
• 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 comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• 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.

To be successful in your role as a Controls Professional, you should have:

• Investment Banking first line of defence Risk and Control experience, including deep understanding of applicable conduct frameworks (i.e. supervision, conflict of Interest).
• Excellent communication skills with validated ability to influence stakeholders.
• A detail-oriented focus and considerable organizational skills.

Other Highly Valued Skills May Include:

• Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present credibly to senior stakeholders.
• Highly experienced in dealing with multiple stakeholders in different business functions who have different targets such as Barclays Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, Fraud, Legal.
• The ability to provide thought influence through bringing together insight and analysis including external knowledge.

Key skills/competency

• Risk Management
• Internal Controls
• Investment Banking
• Financial Services
• Regulatory Compliance
• Stakeholder Management
• Analytical Skills
• Problem Solving
• Change Management
• Communication Skills