Internal Audit VP - Quality Assurance

Barclays•New York, NY

2d•$150,000 - $210,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join us as an Internal Audit VP- Quality Assurance, where you’ll play a key role in assessing and improving the quality of Barclays Internal Audit (BIA) assurance and operational practices. In this role, you will identify areas of risk, evaluate audit effectiveness, and provide strategic insights to enhance audit quality. Collaborate with key stakeholders to drive continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Requirements

Expert understanding of audit methodology, risk, and control
Broad knowledge of internal auditing practices, standards, and regulations
Written and verbal communication skills demonstrating a collaborative approach across a range of stakeholders, including senior colleagues

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of regulatory requirements and audit standards
Ability to analyze data and provide meaningful insights

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 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.
Define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
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.
Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction.
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.
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.
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.
Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive