Avp: Assurance, Laws, Rules and Regulations

Join us as a "AVP Assurance Law, Rules Regulation", as part of Control Assurance Services 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.

To be successful as a "AVP Assurance Law, Rules Regulation", you should have experience with:

- Provide controls assurance on processes/controls primarily covering Barclays’ adherence to Laws, Rules and Regulations
- Review adequacy of framework, processes and controls established to achieve adherence to Laws, Rules and Regulations and other operational risks.
- Govern end to end delivery of the Controls Testing Framework to understand and report on control effectiveness for Barclays.
- Identify, evaluate, report and escalate risks in line with Barclays risk and control frameworks, utilizing relevant tools and analytical techniques.
- Report the results of testing activities to Senior Stakeholders across Business Units, Functions and Shared Services.
- Influence and support the implementation of the Controls Assurance strategy.
- Ensuring reviews are managed within the approved scope and budgets on a regular basis.

**Basic/ Essential Qualifications**:

- Basic Minimum Educational Qualification - Post Graduate or equivalent (Chartered Accountant/ MBA/ ACCA).
- Preferred experience in Legal/Regulatory functions or regulatory process/ control testing.
- Experience in implementing Data Analytics i.e. performing full population, hand on with building scripts in SQL /python/other tools.
- Specialist Risk and/or Control-related qualification - formal accreditation / qualification relating to audit, risk and/or control etc.
- Strong project & change management, analytical and organization skills.
- Proven experience of influencing Stakeholders including briefings and presentations.
- Analytical approach and proven ability to manage issues through to resolution.

**Desirable skillsets/ good to have**:

- Relevant academic/professional certifications (Post graduate/equivalent related to Laws applicable in banking industry across geographies) with post qualification relevant experience of Years.
- Experience in Laws, Rules and Regulations related to Markets risk across US, UK geographies.
- Knowledge of the Financial Services regulatory environment.
- Knowledge of Project Management and Change Management, proven through a relevant professional qualification e.g. Prince2, Project Management Institution would be beneficial, but is not essential.
- Understanding and experience in establishing/evaluating frameworks related to identification and compliance with Laws, Rules and Regulations (LRR) applicable to Banking industry across geographies.
- Ability to explore relevant regulatory requirements and identify consequences resulting from non-adherence.
- Knowledge of principal risks such as Operational risk, Market Risk etc.
- Experience to consolidate and process information from multiple sources to create meaningful insight and reporting for stakeholders.
- Proven experience of influencing Stakeholders including briefings and presentations.
- Analytical approach and proven ability to manage issues through to resolution.
- Experience or knowledge of working within a regulatory and control environment.
- Experienced in dealing with multiple stakeholders in different business / functions who have different objectives.
- Experience in providing informed opinion and being a trusted source on business / function’s policies and standards.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively across a global team.
- Ability to successfully multitask and complete assignments with varying lead times.
- Self-starter.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with following as well as job-specific skillset:
Location: Pune

**Purpose of the role**

To partner with the bank, to provide independent insurance on control processes and advise on improvements to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the bank’s internal controls framework.

**Accountabilities**
- Collaboration across the bank to maintain a satisfactory, robust, and efficient control environment through the execution of ad-hoc assessments and testing on the design and operational effectiveness of the internal controls, aligned to control policies and standards.
- Development of detailed test plans and procedures to identify weaknesses in internal controls and other initiatives aligned to the bank’s control framework to mitigate any potential risks and issues, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations, potential losses, and reputational impact.
- Communication of key findings and observations to the relevant stakeholders and business units to improve overall control efficiency and provide corrective actions to senior managers. Collaboration with other control professio