Control Assurance Bfa

Job Title: Control Assurance BFA
Location: Chennai

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective
Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.
If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Hybrid Working

Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Introduction:
Core responsibility is to execute design assessment and operating effectiveness testing of controls in accordance with testing plans and aligned to relevant policies, procedures and quality standards providing assurance to Management that the processes and controls within the reviewed Business Unit are effectively designed and operating to mitigating the identified risks. This will include:

- Maintaining the overall risk and control framework within all supported BUs.
- Support AVP and VP in influencing stakeholders in BUs to embed a strong control environment and risk management culture

What will you be doing?

Control Environment
- Ensure all assigned Controls Testing related requirements are compiled in accordance to the Barclays Control Framework
- Perform Process Design Assessments, Testing of Controls (Manual, semi-automated and automated), put in control change request etc.
- Prepare reports and MI for Control Committees and other Governance Forums. Maintain and track Issues MI, DEA and OET Planners, etc.
- Support a culture of Risk and Governance Controls, through Risk Campaign, and other activities. Partner with the CBP teams as required.
- Support the Risk Management and Control agenda, to identify the key business process risks, determine the design and operational effectiveness of all the controls and drive remedial actions.
- Identify Risks and Controls and develop an appropriate assurance approach.
- Assist VP and AVP in influencing / convincing the stakeholders to understand risks and agree to the issues identified.
- Coordinate with and support External Auditors in their Design Assessment and Control Testing.
- Champion a culture of customer service and continuous improvement. Ensure that opportunities for controls, process and service improvements are encouraged.
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities to create efficiencies in the process and implement them.
- Act as Subject Matter Expert to ensure that all policies are interpreted and implemented as per Group guidelines.
- Capability to take ownership of Project and raising related risks, problems to etc. to relevant stakeholders and taking initiative to solve them
- Timely escalation and investigation into risks and areas of concern.
- Frontend Control testing performed by CCO, 2nd LOD, M&T

What we’re looking for:

- Enthusiastic, motivated, self-starter, pro-active and a team player
- Excellent oral communications skills (grammar, positive tone, active listening, etiquette, empathy, confidence) and written skills (logical thought processes and sentence construction, appropriate word choice)
- Experience of operating both in a remote and physical site environment
- Eye to detail, analytical skills which can be contribute to process enhancement

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Knowledge of MS Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power-point)
- Thorough understanding of Enterprise Risk Management Framework
- Risk Management Certification
- Experience in the Operations Risk and Control or similar roles
Where will you be working?

Chennai

Be More at Barclays
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long t