Director, Head of Capital Requirements and Capital Communications

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

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a strategic leader to head capital requirements and communications. This senior director role involves optimizing the bank's capital structure, managing risk exposure, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will possess extensive leadership experience, a strong analytical mindset, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will drive critical capital management initiatives and contribute to the organization's growth objectives in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a leadership role within capital management.
• Proven track record in managing capital requirements and communications.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of capital management strategies.
• Manage capital communications for external stakeholders.

Skills

Risk Management

Capital Allocation Strategies

Analytical Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Related Field

Master's Degree in Business Administration

Job description

Director, Head of Capital Requirements and Capital Communications

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This is a senior director level role, reporting directly to the Head of Capital and Leverage Management. The purpose is to head up a center of excellence within CALM focused on managing capital requirements and capital communications. This is a new role to add to the existing team and reflects the scope of strategic capital priorities. The successful candidate should have considerable experience in a leadership role, directly relevant experience, and a proven track record in a fast-paced environment.

The Key Accountabilities Of The Role Include

• Risk management and driving efficiencies related to our capital requirements including a clear understanding of the drivers of our capital requirements and a forward looking view of potential changes
• Efficient use of capital including identification of actions we can take to manage our requirements, with a focus on stress testing and leverage usage
• Maintain an effective capital risk appetite together with second line, including ownership for setting early warning indicators and capital planning targets
• Management of our capital communications for external stakeholders including investors and credit rating agencies, and including earnings reports
• Analytical review of peers and other external factors including understanding of consensus expectations for capital and how those influence our direction
  
  
  

Purpose of the role

To optimise the bank's capital structure to support its growth objectives, manage risk exposure, and comply with regulatory requirements by analysis of bank's capital position, development of capital allocation strategies, and ensuring that the bank maintains adequate capital levels under various economic scenarios.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of strategies to manage the bank's capital position, including setting of capital targets, development of capital plans, and monitoring of capital adequacy.
• Optimisation of the bank's capital structure to support the bank's growth and profitability objectives, including management of the bank's exposure to regulatory capital requirements.
• Allocation of capital to business units and projects based on risk-adjusted returns and other financial metrics.
• Preparation and provision of regular reports on the bank's capital position, capital allocation decisions, and stress testing results to senior colleagues, risk committees, and regulatory authorities, and effective communication of capital management strategies and risk considerations to relevant stakeholders.
  
  
  

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Banking and Financial Services

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