Risk Governance and Controls VP

Barclays•Wilmington, DE

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Join us as a Risk Governance and Controls VP, where you will help shape and strengthen the governance and control environment supporting strategic risk transfer and securitization activities. You will design, implement, and manage effective control frameworks while ensuring adherence to regulatory, audit, and risk-retention requirements. Working across the organization, you will partner with regulators, senior leaders, and key stakeholders to support sound governance and the successful delivery of structured risk initiatives. This is an opportunity to apply your capital markets expertise, controls experience, and strategic judgment within a leading global financial institution.

Requirements

Experience in investment banking, wholesale banking, or capital markets
Expertise in securitization and strategic risk transfer activities
Knowledge of Structured Risk Transfer programs and Tranched Credit Risk Mitigation
Understanding of risk-retention requirements and relevant regulatory expectations
Experience designing, implementing, and managing internal controls
Background in risk governance, audit support, and regulatory examinations
Relevant accounting knowledge related to securitization and structured transactions
Excellent relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to engage regulators, peers, and senior leadership
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology
Job-specific technical skills

Responsibilities

Provide support to the Chief Risk Officer(s) in the implementation and ongoing effectiveness of the bank's risk management framework across various business units and functions.
Implementation support of risk management policies, standards, procedures, and controls across the bank.
Assessment and promotion of risk management awareness and risk controls and culture.
Review, challenge and monitoring of the effectiveness of existing risk management practices and identifying areas for improvement.
Identification of new and emerging risks, and assessing the likelihood and impact of identified risks, and recommending appropriate mitigation strategies.
Management and operation of associated committees, forum and meetings.
Maintenance of risk inventories and governance documentation.
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.
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 leadership behaviors 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.
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.
Design, implement, and manage effective control frameworks while ensuring adherence to regulatory, audit, and risk-retention requirements.
Partner with regulators, senior leaders, and key stakeholders to support sound governance and the successful delivery of structured risk initiatives.