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Job Description

Join us as a Risk and Governance at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

Support as Control Business Partner and deliver on CCO activities undertaken for functions that includes RCSA, Process Reviews, Governance, Control Assurances, EUDA, Issues and Risk Events management per the group policies and standards. The primary focus is on evaluation of controls, policies, procedures and standards across processes to identify design and operational control weaknesses and drive remedial actions for improving the business control environment.

To be successful as a Risk and Governance, you should have experience with:

- Co-ordinate and deliver on Barclays policy, standards and operating model in place with regards to Issues, Risk Event and EUDA Management activities for the in-scope processes.
- Assist and support to ensure adherence to Barclays Controls framework (BCF) /methodology and operationally efficient and effective, considering risk appetite extensive knowledge that the role holder must hold.
- Up to date with regard to CCO obligations under the Group Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
- Supports Business and Functions ensuring delivery of the right level of BCF requirements.
- Proactively identifying continuous improvements to the financial control environment and associated framework, supporting policies, methodologies and applications in relation to assurance activity.
- Supports AVP in standardisation/automation initiatives of CCO across Business with regard to compliance to Group Policy and Methodology.
- Check conformance with the Group Policies across the Functions/Processes to identify the key business process risks, determine the effectiveness of operational controls and drive out remedial actions for improving the business control framework
- Supports AVP in driving projects on knowledge enhancements across business.
- Monitoring the Progress against the plan.
- Act as a role model and drive proactive application of Barclays Behaviors throughout the team.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

- Sound commercial judgment and overall understanding of the Financial Services Industry, particularly the business impact of the regulatory environment.
- Experience of designing, communicating & implementing internal control policies.
- Proficient in use of MS Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.).
- Knowledge of internal control and regulatory requirements & practice e.g. Turnbull, Sarbanes-Oxley, COSO, Basel II Accord relating to operational risk preferred.
- Markets Product Knowledge.
- Controls Experience in areas viz. Markets, Markets Operations, KYC, Financial Crime, AML, Customer Due Diligence, Sanctions, Trade Operations, Credit Lending, Global Payments, Reference Data etc.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking, as well as job-specific technical skills.

The job location of this role is Noida.

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 factual information, paying attention to detail.
- Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
- Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
- Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.