Senior Manager - Northern Audit Survey

Barclays Capital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays Capital is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the Northern Audit Survey agenda in Manchester. The role provides senior leadership, oversight, and assurance across audits and surveys, aligning work with business priorities and risk controls.

The candidate will collaborate with key stakeholders, challenge assumptions with judgement, and drive effective delivery of high-quality audits across client engagements. Strong leadership and risk awareness are essential.

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.

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 escalated 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 revi