AVP - Cyber Audit

Barclays • Hanover Township, NJ

3d • $95,000 - $150,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Join us as an AVP - Cyber Audit, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring the effectiveness and compliance of cybersecurity processes across our investment functions. This position offers hands-on execution in audits and testing while collaborating with experienced professionals across various domains. We seek passionate individuals who thrive in a fast-paced, evolving cybersecurity landscape and are eager to grow in a highly visible audit role. This opportunity is ideal for proactive professionals with a strong interest in tech, data, and cyber risk.

Requirements

• Experience or familiarity with regulatory-driven audit environments
• Proven experience leading audits or complex workstreams, not just executing testing
• Experience auditing against industry frameworks and regulations
• Strong understanding of: Cyber security control design and operating effectiveness, Threat vectors and attack techniques relevant to large financial institutions, How cyber risks manifest across infrastructure, applications, and third‑party ecosystems
• Ability to translate technical issues into clear business risk
• Team-oriented mindset with problem-solving and drafting skills
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Passionate, ambitious, and motivated individuals excited about cybersecurity
• Hands-on testing and execution of audits within fast-paced environments

Nice To Haves

• Background in financial services, data analytics, scripting (Python), or cyber risk

Responsibilities

• Audit development and delivery support, including financial statements, accounting practices, operational processes, IT systems and risk management.
• Identification of operational risks to support the delivery of the Barclays Internal Audit (BIA) Audit Plan through risk assessments.
• Assessment of internal control effectiveness and their capability to identify and mitigate risk aligned to regulatory requirements.
• Communication of key findings and recommendations to stakeholders, including the Audit Owner, senior managers and directors.
• Identification of regulatory news and industry trends/developments to provide timely insight and recommendations for best practice.
• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Benefits

• Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
• This position is eligible for an incentive award.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed