Internal Audit VP - Audit Owner

Barclays • Hanover Township, NJ

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About The Position

Join us as an Internal Audit VP - Audit Owner, where you will lead the development and delivery of audits across Market Operations, ensuring alignment with the bank’s standards and objectives. In this role, you will own end-to-end audit scoping, execution, and reporting while overseeing audit activity across global and regional markets operations. You will serve as a key liaison with senior stakeholders and subject matter experts, monitoring progress, managing risks, and driving continuous improvement. This role offers broad exposure across complex audit engagements within a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• Partner effectively with global, regional, and senior stakeholders, demonstrating strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Bring prior internal or external audit experience with the ability to lead teams, coach staff, and work independently

Nice To Haves

• Hold relevant professional certifications such as CPA, CIA, FRM, or CFA, with experience using data analytics tools

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Lead and execute Market Operations audits, including audit planning, scoping, and execution
• Serve as Audit Owner, accountable for audit delivery, timelines, and adherence to internal standards
• Act as a subject matter expert in Market Operations audits with a strong understanding of regulatory requirements

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