Investment Banking Chief Controls Office Product Frameworks

Barclays; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Barclays as an Investment Banking Chief Controls Office (IB CCO) where you'll assess internal control frameworks to mitigate risks and protect operational interests. This role involves collaboration with stakeholders, reports on control effectiveness, and leadership contributions to strategy and improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong background in IBK/Markets, preferably BM and CCO.
• Technical skills to understand business processes.
• Understanding of governance and control frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve control effectiveness.
• Identify weaknesses within internal controls.
• Develop reports on findings and recommendations.

Skills

Stakeholder interaction

Communication

Risk and controls

Strategic thinking

Data manipulation

Job description

Join us as an Investment Banking Chief Controls Office (IB CCO) Product Frameworks, where you will shape the future of banking at Barclays by assessing the integrity and effectiveness of the bank's internal control framework to support risk mitigation and protect the bank's operational, financial, and reputational interests.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• A strong background in IBK/Markets, preferably BM and CCO, with experience in CCO roles.
• Technical skills to understand and navigate business processes and infrastructure from front to back.
• Understanding of governance and control frameworks, including design and remediation approaches.
• Excellent stakeholder interaction and communication skills.

Additional valued skills include:

• Verbal and written articulation skills.
• Excellent Excel and data manipulation skills.

You may be assessed on critical skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology expertise, and technical job-specific skills.

This role is based in London.

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the bank's internal control framework to support risk mitigation and protect operational, financial, and reputational interests.

Accountabilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the bank to improve control effectiveness through documentation of assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identify and investigate potential weaknesses within internal controls to promote improvement and risk mitigation.
• Develop reports communicating key findings, control weaknesses, and recommendations.
• Conduct reviews to evaluate the effectiveness of the internal controls framework in line with policies, regulations, and best practices.
• Ensure adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and assess controls against it.

Vice President Expectations

Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and recommend changes. Manage resources, budgets, and policies; lead continuous improvements; and escalate breaches. If managing a team, define roles, plan for future needs, and lead performance management. Demonstrate leadership behaviors to foster a thriving environment, including listening, inspiring, aligning, and developing others. For individual contributors, act as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead assignments, and mentor less experienced staff. Also, advise stakeholders, manage risks, demonstrate leadership in controls, and collaborate across functions to align strategies. Use analytical skills to develop innovative solutions and build trusting relationships to achieve business objectives.

All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, along with the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.