BI Cco

**Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications**:
This role requires extensive knowledge and working experience in project management
- Relevant professional certification (CA, CIA, CS, MBA Finance or equivalent)
- Knowledge of process re-engineering e.g. LEAN / DMAIC / Value Mapping would be beneficial, but is not essential
- Specialist Risk and/or Control-related qualification - formal accreditation / qualification relating to audit, risk and/or control etc.
- Knowledge of the Financial Services regulatory environment
- Experience with data analytics tools and techniques
- Experience of working within the financial services industry
- Experience of working in a risk, control, audit or governance function
- 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

**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.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Own and deliver Controls Assurance program including sustainability testing with deep understanding of assessment frameworks
- The individual would be responsible for planning, executing and providing oversight for delivery of Controls Testing reviews and reporting findings with supervision from Controls Assurance testing teams
- Ensuring reviews are managed within the approved scope and budgets on a regular basis
- Undertaking appropriate forum reporting and representing controls assurance in relevant forums
- Building and developing relationships with key Vertical, Horizontal and all 3 Lines of Defence stakeholders to drive Barclays Control Framework agenda
- Review activities undertaken by management to remediate control gaps and provide an opinion as to whether the risk has been fully mitigated and whether the implemented controls are sustainable
- Identify and leverage appropriate data sources and analytical techniques to deliver targeted testing
- Maintain an independent perspective, challenging as required and setting out quantified control options and risk decision recommendations
- Set and proactively manage Stakeholder expectations to promote an understanding and achievement of risk management objectives, ensuring awareness of responsibilities regarding risk and control

**Stakeholder Management and Leadership**

**Decision-making and Problem Solving**
- The role holder will have a degree of independent thinking and decision-making authority, and ability to influence upwards
- Ability to work simultaneously on multiple activities and track actions and drive delivery
- Ability to identify trends and themes from problems and issues and make decisions and logical conclusions from analysing facts

**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.

**Person Specification**
- Strong project & change management, analytical and organisation skills
- 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

**Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications**:

- Minimum experience in handling processes associated with principal risks (e.g. Transactions Operations or Proven experience in one or more of the following: Internal/External Audit; Operational Risk Management; or Risk and Control related discipline)
- Pro-active and delivery focused, working to high standards of performance
- Ability to prioritise and work under pressure, delivering to tight deadlines and multiple demands.
- Ability to influence others without formal reporting lines
- Strong report writing skills

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.