Vice President, Controls Business Partner

Barclays; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Vice President, Controls Business Partner to enhance risk management and control frameworks. This pivotal role involves collaborating with stakeholders to assess and strengthen the bank's internal controls, ensuring operational, financial, and reputational risks are mitigated effectively. You will lead initiatives to improve control effectiveness and provide strategic insights to senior management. If you possess a strong risk and control mindset, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a passion for driving transformation, this opportunity could be your next career milestone.

Qualifications

• Experience in product knowledge and risk management is essential.
• Strong stakeholder management and problem-solving skills are highly valued.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to improve control effectiveness.
• Identify weaknesses in internal controls for risk mitigation.
• Develop reports on risk assessments and control weaknesses.

Skills

Product Issuing and Acquiring Corporate cards

Risk and Control mindset

Stakeholder management

Problem solving ability

Change and transformation

Strategic thinking

Digital and technology skills

Job description

Embark on a transformative journey as Vice President, Controls Business Partner where you'll play a pivotal role as a part of the First line team by supporting the operation in Risk and Controls. At Barclays, we're committed to pushing boundaries. Your role will be responsible for providing input, challenge, and risk management expertise across Product, Process, Service, and Control landscape and to ensure Enterprise Risk management frameworks are implemented and managed effectively.

To thrive in this role, you should have:

• Good experience in Product Issuing and Acquiring Corporate cards.
• Excellent product knowledge.
• Good Risk and Control mindset.
• Previous experience with front office facing roles.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Stakeholder management.
• Good understanding of the bank's controls framework.
• Problem solving ability.

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 our Noida / Chennai office.

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.