Account Governance Manager

BARCLAYS; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking an Account Governance Manager to join the Corporate Operations Governance team in Glasgow. You will strengthen risk management, governance, and control oversight across reconciliations and account substantiation processes, reviewing and challenging the integrity of reconciliations.

You will lead a high‑performing team, engage stakeholders, and drive end‑to‑end process improvements including automation and AI to enhance efficiency and control effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Proven people and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong experience in risk management, governance, or control assurance.
• Experience driving process improvement, including automation or the use of AI.
• Solid understanding of reconciliation, substantiation, and financial control frameworks.
• Strong analytical capability to interpret data and identify trends.

Responsibilities

• Support day‑to‑day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution.
• Collaborate with teams across the bank to align and integrate processes.
• Identify improvements and provide operational recommendations.
• Develop and implement procedures and controls to mitigate risks.
• Develop reports and presentations on performance for senior stakeholders.
• Identify industry trends to implement best practice in banking operations.
• Participate in projects to improve operational efficiency.

Skills

People management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Governance

Control assurance

Process improvement

Automation

Artificial intelligence

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Intellimatch

INFoRM

Job description

Join us as an Account Governance Manager. In this role, you will join the Corporate Operations Governance team, where you will play a key role in strengthening risk management, governance, and control oversight across reconciliations and account substantiation processes. You will be responsible for reviewing, challenging, and reporting on the integrity, completeness, and effectiveness of reconciliations across the function, supporting the mitigation of financial misreporting risk.

You will drive improvements across complex processes, focusing on simplification, optimisation, and end‑to‑end value, while ensuring adherence to Account Ownership & Reconciliation Standards. The role also involves acting as a subject matter expert, supporting change initiatives and providing analytical insights to enhance operational performance and control effectiveness.

Alongside this, you will lead a high‑performing team, nurturing development and maintaining consistently high standards, while engaging with stakeholders across the organisation to resolve issues, drive alignment, and promote best practice.

To be successful as an Account Governance Manager, you should have:

• Proven people and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, lead, develop, and motivate high‑performing teams.
• Strong experience in risk management, governance, or and control assurance, particularly within financial operations regarding Corporate operations and reconciliation.
• Experience driving process improvement, including simplification, automation, or the use of AI to enhance efficiency.
• Solid understanding of reconciliation, substantiation, and financial control frameworks, including associated risks.
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, investigate anomalies and resolve complex issues across teams.

Some other highly valued skills and experience include:

• Experience working with reconciliation and substantiation tools such as Intellimatch and INFoRM.
• Knowledge of Account Ownership & Reconciliation Standards and associated governance processes.
• Cross‑industry experience enforcing compliance to policies and standards.
• Relevant industry qualifications in financial reporting, reconciliations, or continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean).
• An understanding how the Account Governance team and processes fit into the end‑to‑end Account and Reconciliation framework.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, including strategic thinking, risk and control awareness, change and transformation delivery, commercial acumen, and role‑specific technical expertise.

This role will be based in Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To support business areas with day‑to‑day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution.

Accountabilities

• Support various business areas with day‑to‑day initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate operational processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations in operational processes.
• Development and implementation of operational procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on operational performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in banking operations.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.