Internal Audit Data Analytics VP

Purpose of the role

To collect, clean, analyse, and visualise data to identify potential risks, assess compliance with regulations, and provide valuable insights to auditors. 

Accountabilities

• Development and execution of data extraction strategies to gather relevant data from various sources, including internal systems, external databases, and third-party vendors.
• Analysis of data to identify potential risks and control weaknesses.
• Provision of data-driven insights and analysis to auditors throughout the audit process.
• Supporting the development and testing of audit procedures based on data analysis results.
• Implementation of data management processes to ensure data accessibility, security, and integrity.

Vice President Expectations

• 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 to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• 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.

Join as a Vice President within the Barclays Internal Audit (BIA) Data Analytics team. This team helps BIA use data insights to deliver high quality assurance and is a core part of BIA’s Strategy. This is achieved by delivering innovative solutions for audit testing; providing industry-leading training and coaching of data auditors; developing tools and applications to automate manual tasks and exploring new technologies and data science approaches to evolve how our assurance methods 

The main purpose of this role is to manage resources to support practical and innovative audit delivery using data analytics – driving continuous improvement through developing DA competencies, encouraging auditors delivering analytics, and automating repetitive tasks.  

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Proven experience and knowledge of data analysis/data modelling – with SQL/Python/other.
• Expert level hands on knowledge working with RDBMS (SQL), Python or equivalents.
• Critical mind-set, and ability to challenge ideas to find the most appropriate solution.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, particularly with regard to describing complex programming to non-technical audiences.
• Experience interacting with senior management and ability to develop business cases, management presentations, reports, strategies etc.
• Experience managing a team of technologists/business data analysts.
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks, balancing conflicting priorities.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience of working in an Audit team / Audit function.
• Experience working with financial services.
• Experience training end users in data analysis technologies.
• Experience with advanced data science/machine learning.
• Experience with AWS/Alteryx technologies.
• Experience developing self-service automations/dashboards/data models to simplify repetitive tasks.
• Proven ability to quickly learn emerging data analytics technologies and use them on the job.
• Proven ability of working through challenging problems and working independently to develop solutions to address business needs.

You may be assessed on 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 Knutsford.