Senior Manager - Northern Audit Survey

8193 Barclays Bank PLC; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Bank PLC is seeking a Senior Manager for the Northern Audit Survey to provide senior leadership across the agenda, ensuring work is delivered to a high standard and aligned with business priorities. You will collaborate with key stakeholders, applying expert judgement to provide challenge, insight and assurance.

The role requires leading a team of audit professionals, managing workloads, and driving improvements in audit and survey processes, while upholding robust risk and control

Qualifications

• Considerable Invoice Discounting and ABL experience, with understanding of receivables finance products, client risk management, audit requirements, and portfolio oversight.
• Proven people management experience, with leadership of high-performing teams through coaching, performance management, resource planning and engagement.
• Considerable technical audit and survey expertise, including knowledge of methodologies, collateral controls, risk identification, and remedial action guidance.
• Good stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to influence decisions and convey complex risk matters clearly.
• Experience operating in a robust risk and control environment, driving continuous improvement and governance standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the audit and survey team to high performance and technical capability.
• Manage workloads and resources to deliver audits and surveys on time and with quality.
• Oversee complex client audits, surveys and reviews with robust risk identification.
• Build stakeholder relationships across Sales, Relationship Management, Credit Risk and Operations.
• Maintain technical standards, accreditations and governance compliance.
• Provide expert insight to support risk-based decision making.
• Drive continuous improvement in audit and survey processes.
• Promote a strong control environment across the Sales Finance portfolio.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Audit expertise

Risk assessment

People management

Strategic thinking

Job description

Job Description

Purpose of the role To provide SME expertise to assess risks in a client's receivables and other asset classes, maintenance of bank's security, and contribution to the overall success of the sales function and relationship management functions.

Accountabilities

SME expertise to assess risks in a client's receivables and other asset classes and maintenance of the bank's security. Assessment of a client's systems and credit control capabilities. Assessment of a client's contract and sales terms. Preparation of survey and audit findings for the sales and relationship management functions. Management of customer information and enquiry/issue resolutions, including the tracking of customer interactions, and accurate maintenance of customer records and detailed analysis. Coordination with various internal departments, such as sales, risk, legal, and compliance, to ensure execution of sales processes and timely delivery of products or services to customers. Market research for identification of potential risks, strategies, and competitive intelligence to support sales strategies and initiatives with regards facility security.

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 own 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.

Join Barclays as a Senior Manager - Northern Audit Survey.

In this role, you’ll provide senior leadership and oversight across the Northern Audit Survey agenda, helping to ensure work is delivered to a high standard and aligned with business priorities. You’ll work closely with key stakeholders, using your expertise and judgement to provide effective challenge, insight and assurance.

Key responsibilities:

• Leading, coaching and developing a team of audit and survey professionals, ensuring high standards of performance and technical capability.
• Managing team workloads and resources to ensure audits and surveys are delivered effectively, consistently and to the required quality standards.
• Overseeing complex client audits, surveys and reviews, ensuring robust risk identification and effective client due diligence.
• Building considerable stakeholder relationships across Sales, Relationship Management, Credit Risk and Operations.
• Maintaining technical standards, professional accreditations and adherence to relevant policies and governance requirements.
• Providing expert insight and challenge to support effective, risk-based decision making.
• Driving continuous improvement across audit and survey processes, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency, quality, and consistency.
• Promoting a solid control environment, ensuring risks are appropriately identified, assessed, and managed across the Sales Finance portfolio.

To be successful as a Senior Manager - Northern Audit Survey, you should have:

• Considerable Invoice Discounting and ABL experience, with a sound understanding of receivables finance products, client risk management, audit requirements, and portfolio oversight.
• Proven people management experience, with experience leading and developing high-performing teams through coaching, performance management, resource planning employee engagement, and succession planning.
• Considerable technical audit and survey expertise, including knowledge of audit and survey methodologies, collateral controls, and risk identification, with the ability to challenge findings and drive appropriate remedial actions.
• Good stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build effective internal and external relationships, influence decision-making and communicate complex risk matters clearly and confidently.
• Experience operating within a robust risk and control environment, driving continuous improvement, maintaining robust governance standards, and ensuring delivery against business and regulatory requirements.

Other highly valued skills include:

• Considerable leadership presence, with the ability to motivate and engage others.
• A collaborative and inclusive approach to working across different teams and disciplines.
• Sound judgement and confidence when making decisions in complex or challenging situations.
• Adaptability and resilience when balancing competing priorities and changing business needs.
• A proactive and curious mindset, with a focus on continuous improvement and identifying better ways of working.

This role can be based in Manchester, Leeds or London. #LI-Hybrid

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.