Technology Controls Manager

Barclays; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Technical Controls Manager based in Knutsford to strengthen the bank's control environment. You will assess technology risk, collaborate with technology, risk and business stakeholders, and drive remediation where needed to keep controls effective and aligned with business needs.

In this role, you will provide technical controls expertise, challenge existing processes, and help ensure control sustainability.

Qualifications

• Experience assessing risk and controls within a banking environment.
• Ability to advise and influence decision making in policy development.
• Proven collaboration with stakeholders across business units.

Responsibilities

• Assess risk and effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to document control assessments, procedures and findings.
• Identify weaknesses and drive mitigation aligned to policy and controls framework.
• Develop reports communicating key findings and recommendations to owners and senior management.
• Perform risk-based reviews to ensure controls are effective and comply with evolving policies.

Skills

Infrastructure delivery

Platform management

Risk & control management

Cyber security

Vulnerability remediation

Job description

Job Description

Purpose of the role

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

Accountabilities

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• 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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. ‘Complex’ information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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 us at Barclays as a Technical Controls Manager, where you will play a key role in strengthening our technology control environment and helping ensure risks are identified, understood and effectively managed. You will work closely with technology, risk and business stakeholders to assess technical controls, support control assurance activities and drive improvements across the organisation. In this role, you will provide technical controls expertise, challenge existing processes where appropriate and help ensure that controls remain effective, sustainable and aligned to the needs of the business. You will use your knowledge of technology risk and controls to identify weaknesses, support remediation and provide clear insight to senior stakeholders.

Key Skills

• Infrastructure delivery and platform management : Proven experience delivering infrastructure solutions, platform upgrades and service-sustaining activities, including the remediation of technical debt.
• Risk and control management : Strong experience and awareness of technology risk and control management, with the ability to identify, assess and manage risks within a complex technology environment.
• Cyber Security and vulnerability remediation : Practical Cyber Security experience, including the identification and remediation of vulnerabilities, with experience across Wiz, patching, base imaging and Prisma.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience working across complex technology environments, collaborating with infrastructure, engineering and Cyber Security teams to deliver sustainable technology solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders and provide clear oversight of risks, controls and remediation activity.
• Experience supporting technology change, governance and control assurance, with an understanding of how infrastructure change and remediation activities contribute to a strong technology control environment.

This role is based in Knutsford

You may be assessed on 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 expertise, alongside role-specific technical skills