VP Audit-Global Investment Banking

Barclays•New York, NY

1d•$150,000 - $210,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join us as an VP Audit-Global Investment Banking, where you will lead to audits related to Investment Banking by working closely with colleagues across teams. This role involves reviewing financial products, preparing audit reports, and supporting ongoing audit activities. You will collaborate with others on topics such as loan portfolios, and regulatory matters. The position provides an opportunity to be part of a team that works across various areas of the business.

Requirements

Experience leading audits, finance, or investment banking with the ability to review and write audit-related reports
Familiarity with financial products such as loans and structured products
Comfortable working with teams and participating in discussions with stakeholders
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology
Job-specific technical skills

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience with data analytics, coding, or machine learning techniques
Knowledge of financial systems or exposure to larger financial organizations
Professional certifications like CIA, CPA, CFA, or CISA
Knowledge of Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, and Research businesses and products, including Debt and Equity Capital Markets, Leveraged Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Wholesale Lending

Responsibilities

Support the development of audits aligned to the bank’s standards and objectives by working collaboratively with colleagues, providing accurate information and recommendations, and complying with policies and procedures.
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.
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 behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
If an individual contributor, be a subject matter expert within own discipline and 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.
Lead audits related to Investment Banking by working closely with colleagues across teams.
Review financial products.
Prepare audit reports.
Support ongoing audit activities.
Collaborate with others on topics such as loan portfolios, and regulatory matters.