Portfolio Operations Manager

Barclays UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Portfolio Operations Manager to lead the assessment of its internal control framework. This role is pivotal in mitigating operational, financial, and reputational risks while driving innovation and excellence within the organization. You will collaborate with various stakeholders, identify weaknesses in controls, and develop comprehensive reports to communicate findings. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication, organisational, and stakeholder management skills, along with a robust understanding of risk and controls. Join a dynamic team and contribute to the evolution of a leading financial institution's digital landscape.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and organisational skills are essential for this role.
• Experience in risk management and stakeholder engagement is highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance control effectiveness and mitigate risks.
• Develop reports on risk assessments and communicate findings to management.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Strong organisational skills

Robust stakeholder management capabilities

Experience in demand and prioritisation management

Ability to influence

Strong thought leadership

Risk and controls

Change and transformation

Business acumen

Strategic thinking

Digital and technology

Job description

Join us as a Portfolio Operations Manager at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.

The purpose of this role is to assess the integrity and effectiveness of the bank's internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the bank's operational, financial, and reputational risk.

To be successful in this role you should have:

• Excellent communication skills
• Strong organisational skills
• Robust stakeholder management capabilities

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience in demand and prioritisation management
• Ability to influence
• Strong thought leadership

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the 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 is based in either Knutsford or Northampton.

Purpose of the Role

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

Accountabilities

• 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

• 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.