Ba4 - Crdm

Experience - 4 to 6 years

**Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications**:

- Graduate in any discipline
- Experience in Controls, Governance, Reporting and Risk Management preferably in a financial services organisation
- Proficient in MS Office - PPT, Excel, Work & Visio
- Proficient in SQL, Alteryx and Python
- Good understanding of governance and control frameworks and processes
- Highly motivated, business-focussed and forward thinking.
- Experience in senior stakeholder management. Ability to manage relationships across multiple disciplines

**Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience in data crunching/ analysis including automation using VB Macros, MS Access, Visualisation Tools - Tableau (including Tableau Prep), etc.
- Understanding of Data Management Priniciples and data governance
- Design and managing SharePoints

Financial Services experience

**Key Accountabilities**

The role holder will be accountable for forward planning, prioritization to ensure accurate and timely preparation of the Controls MI, Governance and Risk Management. The role holder will follow the set benchmark for the “best of breed” solutions to the Controls MI preparation, Governance and Risk Management practises. The role holder will maintain a continual focus on improving efficiency and consistency through using advanced database, data transformation and data science tools and techniques.
- Work with stakeholders/ business to understand Control reporting requirements in order to seamlessly convert data into actionable metrics and insights that will help the business manage and monitor the control environment
- Develop and Prepare Data Insights and packs using Data Science and Analytics tools (e.g. ML and NLP) and techniques, relational Databases (e.g. SQL/Oracle), ETL and Automation (e.g. Python) etc. that feed into various Control Committees and enhance with supporting commentary where required
- Automate, enhance and develop existing and new utilities using workflow automation using Alteryx,, Power Query, Power Apps, ETL, Python, etc.
- Identify fields in data repository, which require completion/attribution to provide accurate management information, compile list, communicate fixes required and follow up.
- Extract data and analyse it to identify duplicate data or data requiring re-mapping, compile list of suggested fixes, communicate fixes, and obtain approval process fixes.
- Process ad hoc data loads from Business Units, support PoC development
- Deals with requests for ad hoc reports from onshore stakeholders
- Organises and coordinates implementation of tasks to ensure compliance with goals and unit objectives, as well as maintenance of optimal operating efficiency within the unit

**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.

**Accountabilities**
- 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.

**Analyst Expectations**
- Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
- Partner with other functions and business areas.
- Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
- Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
- Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of fa