Product & Company Licensing Avp

Job Title : Product & Company Licensing AVP
Location: Pune

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

Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:
Introduction:
An Assistant Vice President (AVP) within the Employee Conduct Team will be required to provide coverage across employee conduct activities, including but not limited to Conduct Oversight, Personal Investments & Affiliations, Global Registrations, Conduct Rules, Mandatory Block Leave, Entity Authorisations.

The Employee Conduct team helps Barclays to manage firm and personal conflicts more effectively while ensuring employees continue to uphold the Barclays Values and Behaviours.

This role will be responsible for providing oversight and executing operational management of the processes being undertaken within the team in line with Barclays’ Compliance Policies and Standards. The role holder is expected to support the Employee Conduct VP to manage the wider team. In addition, the role holder is to generate, update and comprehend management information (MI), to facilitate the Employee Conduct leadership in discharging oversight and delivering key services to our stakeholders. The AVP will play a key role in leading projects & continue improvement within the team striving towards consistently excellent. A key element of the role is in the management of Risk and Controls, this may include carrying out quality assurance reviews, data reconciliation checks and annual review of all collateral, such as procedures, guides, policies, etc.

What will you be doing?

Responsibilities and activities include, but are not limited to:

- Provide leadership and oversee Employee Conduct processes and ensure adherence to the procedures
- Provide coverage on Employee Conduct activities such as clearance of requests and exceptions, undertaking quality assurance including issuing breaches in line with specific team procedures.
- Respond to colleague queries on their obligations and requirements and be ready to respond/assist within our Group-Wide Policy and Standards relating to Employee Conduct and be a point of escalation for complex queries received by the team.
- Managing various key strategic initiatives and independently working on key deliverables (local and global), including assisting Technology on any system rollouts (i.e., design specifications, user requirements and testing), and participating in relevant team calls
- Provide practical first line input in support of Technology colleagues, in the delivery of continuous improvement and fixes to our systems and technology platforms.
- Ensure high control standards and high-quality work product through four eyes checks and supervisory reviews.
- Lead on developing and executing key MI to support the oversight of services levels as well as identification of risks and issues.
- Offer practical solutions and suggestions for process improvement - especially in identifying inefficiencies or weaknesses in current Employee Conduct workflows, controls or procedures.
- Conduct training of our Group-Wide Policy and Standards relating to Employee Conduct
- Oversee submissions to Regulators, perform reconciliation and investigate any errors
- Maintaining certain information / data points in relevant Barclays systems, databases and other record keeping sources, including conducting quality assurance with respect of data entries made by the team and by others.
- Review procedures and templates and ensure they are up to date and accurate

What we’re looking for:

- Ability to work independently and in a team and/or fast paced, high volume and changing environment
- Ability to confront conflict and difficult issues in a professional, assertive and proactive manner while remaining sensitive to business needs
- Self-starter willing to take on additional tasks and ad-hoc projects as requested
- Ability to set clear expectations, meet deadlines, prioritize work, and multi-task
- Ability to take proactive approach to problem solving with innovative and new ways of working ideas
- Take Accountability and/or Ownership of the process managed by the Team
- Confident and concise communication skills (verbal and written).
- Capable of distilling complex concepts and effectively conveying them to people of varying seniority levels
- Team player and willingness to share knowledge and/or develop new skills
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to initiate, build and maintain good relationships

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