Internal Audit Traded Risk VP - Audit Owner

Canary Wharf, 1 Churchill Place, United Kingdom

Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. Our businesses include consumer banking, as well as a top-tier, global corporate and investment bank.

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Job Description

Purpose of the role

To lead the development and delivery of audits aligned to the bank’s standards and objectives

Accountabilities

  • Leading the delivery of Continuous Monitoring activities, including engagement with senior stakeholders to discuss the relevance of business changes on risks, controls and the audit plan.
  • Management of challenging stakeholder discussions regarding audit exceptions.
  • Independent preparation and review of material in response to regulator requests.
  • Management of actual or perceived conflicts to independence and objectivity for all owned audits.
  • Development of an impactful annual audit plan.
  • Production of audit reports, selecting the most appropriate language to use in different audit scenarios, with a clear understanding of the needs of the different users of the audit report.
  • Management of the tracking, validation and closure of several audit issues across a portfolio, overseeing that issue closure is activity performed by others, ensuring they meet quality and timeline requirement and engaging effectively with stakeholders on contentious validation conclusions.

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 our Internal Audit Traded Risk team as a VP - Audit Owner.   This will be a high profile role with a significant amount of exposure to senior stakeholders across Barclays Internal Audit (BIA) and the wider Bank. You will be required to: ​assist in the coordination of the global team across the UK, India and New York; drive global audits and independently land issues; be the global team SME for Traded Risk; and have a deep working knowledge of the underlying regulation (both current and upcoming); and lead regulatory reviews from a BIA perspective.

 

To be successful one should have experience with below:

  • An SME in Market Risk and/or Counterparty Credit Risk, with an in depth understanding of CRR regulatory requirements and upcoming Basel.
  • Undergraduate and/or postgraduate education in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, or a related field
  • Relevant professional certifications such as CPA, CIA, FRM, or CFA, or equivalent career experience in audit or risk management roles
  • Proficiency in data analytics and coding, with experience in tools like Tableau, Python, SQL, and other data science techniques
  • Excellent communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders and work independently or within a team

 

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 is based in London.

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Tags: Credit risk Data Analytics Finance Python Research SQL Tableau

Perks/benefits: Career development

Region: Europe
Country: United Kingdom

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