Controls Professional - Digital Security

Barclays UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A major banking institution is seeking a Controls Professional - Digital Security to manage digital channel risk and controls while ensuring a compliant control environment. This role requires strong leadership skills and a solid understanding of security, technology, and fraud risk management. The ideal candidate will possess excellent stakeholder management abilities and knowledge of regulatory requirements. This position can be based in London, Glasgow, Knutsford, or Northampton.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing digital channel risk and controls.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge of AI and emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage and assess the bank's internal control framework.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve control effectiveness.
• Investigate potential weaknesses in internal controls.

Skills

Leadership and influencing skills

Stakeholder management

Understanding of digital technologies

Communication skills

Technical background in cyber and fraud domains

Education

CISSP or equivalent security certification

CISM accreditation or similar qualification

Job description

Join us as a Controls Professional - Digital Security at Barclays where you'll be primarily responsible for managing digital channel risk and controls, ensuring an effective and compliant control environment. You will be interpreting regulatory and risk requirements, embedding security and cyber‑crime controls into the platform, and owning features to ensure they are secure by design. You will work closely with product, technology, fraud, risk, feature and other teams to balance effective risk management with continuous improvement of the customer experience.

To be successful as a Controls Professional - Digital Security, you should have experience with:

• Great leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to lead and motivate virtual teams to deliver features in a federated environment
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and collaboration skills, working effectively across cyber, fraud, technology, product owners and feature teams
• Solid understanding of digital technologies, including how the app operates, with solid knowledge of cyber security and fraud risk
• Previous experience in working with senior stakeholders, including Directors, and producing clear presentations and board‑level papers supported by great communication skills
• Proven technical background with expertise in technology, cyber and fraud domains; knowledge of AI and emerging technologies is highly beneficial
• Technical product expertise, with the ability to translate regulatory and risk requirements into secure, customer‑focused platform features

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Good understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) principles and controls
• CISSP or equivalent security certification
• CISM accreditation or similar risk and information security qualification

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role can be based in either London, Glasgow, Knutsford or Northampton.

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.

Accountabilities

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank’s internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• 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 be a subject matter expert within their discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.