Controls Partner VP

Barclays•Wilmington, DE

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Purpose of the role 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. Shape Risk and Controls at Barclays – As a Controls Partner, VP, you’ll play a key role in strengthening the bank’s technology risk and control framework. This role is focused on assessing, designing, and enhancing controls that support technology platforms, digital processes, data, and change initiatives, helping ensure the bank operates safely, securely, and resiliently in a rapidly evolving technology landscape. 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, cyber, data, 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. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

Requirements

A background in financial services with experience in technology risk oversight and control activities, including issue resolution, documentation of safeguards, and Risk and Control Self-Assessment
Experience assessing risks and controls across technology platforms, systems, data, digital processes or change initiatives
The ability to oversee and coordinate projects and workstreams 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 technology teams, product owners, and subject matter experts to deliver pragmatic, well embedded control solutions

Nice To Haves

Prior gap assessment experience (preferred)
FinTech experience, digital banking, platforms, or emerging technologies (preferred)
Familiarity with technology risk domains such as change management, access controls, data integrity, system resilience, and third party technology risk
Prior Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) experience

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.