Director for Regulatory Relations

Barclays; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial services is seeking a strategic regulatory advisor to manage and enhance interactions with regulators. This role involves providing expert advice, coordinating regulatory activities, and ensuring compliance with UK regulations. The successful candidate will leverage their regulatory expertise and strong analytical skills to navigate complex issues, support senior stakeholders, and contribute to the firm's strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience in regulatory environment and financial services.
• Ability to manage C-suite level stakeholders and conflicting work demands.
• Strong understanding of financial services regulations in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advice on regulatory engagement.
• Manage interactions with regulators and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate regulatory requests and ensure quality delivery.

Skills

Communication

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Regulatory Knowledge

Education

Relevant Degree in Finance or Law

Job description

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Thorough understanding of financial services business and of the UK financial services regulatory environment.
• Ability to analyses regulatory environment in order to help design firm strategy for regulatory engagement.
• Experience of dealing with regulators, possibly gained through working in a regulator or financial services areas of a professional services firm.
• Excellent communication skills - spoken and written and an ability to explain complex regulatory issues and topics at a non-technical level.
• High levels of initiative and an ability to anticipate and solve problems.
• Strong coordination and organization skills and ability to multi-task and turnaround requests quickly under pressure.
• Ability to design and implement MIS for senior stakeholders.
• Excellent team player who reflects the Barclays Mindset.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant experience, possibly gained by working in a bank or through working in a regulator or financial services firm covering retail banking, investment banking.
• Someone who is highly motivated and wants to work in a successful team.
• An interest in and awareness in regulators and regulation more generally.
• Ability to priorities conflicting work demands.
• Ability to manage C-suite level stakeholders.

Knowledge and Expertise

• Relationship / Partnership approach.

• Builds strong internal and external relationships.
• Seeks out and values different knowledge, information, and approaches.
• Explicitly seeks to understand and support the goals and objectives of others. Removes duplicated effort.
• Builds bridges where none previously existed; supports others to push back boundaries.
• Able to recognize and manage priorities and manage expectations accordingly.
• Treats others with courtesy and understanding; remains friendly and approachable.
• Technical Skills & Knowledge.
• Shows comprehension of regulatory landscape.
• Has core regulatory technical knowledge and skills and an ability to apply them to investment and retail banking.
• Shows broad business knowledge and business literacy.
• Decision Making.
• Identifies needs to support decision making.
• Balances own intuition, supported by evidence.
• Stands by decisions but also able to recognise when wrong.
• Ability to challenge and uphold core values.
• Contribute to regulatory strategy setting for the firm.

Purpose of the role

To provide strategic advice and guidance on all aspects of regulatory engagement, while managing and coordinating the bank’s interactions with regulators, ensuring open and constructive regulatory relationships.

Accountabilities

• Central co-ordination point for all regulatory requests/ reviews/ examinations/ responses/ notifications and collaboration with relevant Accountable Executives to ensure timely and high quality delivery.
• Advising /briefing internal stakeholders for regulatory engagement, recording of all regulatory engagement and forwarding actions arising to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Provision of insightful and timely MI on regulatory engagement and priorities to internal stakeholders.
• Identification of emerging themes and issues and escalation to the appropriate stakeholders for resolution.
• Role model of Firm ambitions of Consistently Excellent are evidenced in all regulatory engagement.
• Information sharing across regions to ensure that the Firm is optimising global regulatory profile.
• Monitoring and evaluation of regulatory relationships, ensuring timely advice, escalation and execution where remedial action is required.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.