Risk Governance and Controls VP

Barclays; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Wilmington, DE is seeking a Risk Governance and Controls VP to design and manage control frameworks supporting securitization and strategic risk transfer while ensuring regulatory and audit alignment. You will collaborate with regulators and senior leaders to strengthen governance, oversee risk inventories, and drive effective control practices across structured finance activities.

This role emphasizes leadership in risk and controls, change management, and strong communication to

Qualifications

• Experience in secured banking products, wholesale banking, or capital markets.
• Expertise in securitization and strategic risk transfer activities.
• Knowledge of Structured Risk Transfer programs and Tranched Credit Risk Mitigation.
• Understanding of risk-retention requirements and relevant regulatory expectations.
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing internal controls.
• Background in risk governance, audit support, and regulatory examinations.
• Relevant accounting knowledge related to securitization and structured transactions.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to engage regulators, peers, and senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Implementation support of risk management policies, standards, procedures, and controls across the bank.
• Assessment and promotion of risk management awareness and risk controls and culture.
• Review, challenge and monitoring of the effectiveness of existing risk management practices and identifying areas for improvement.
• Identification of new and emerging risks, and assessing the likelihood and impact of identified risks, and recommending appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Management and operation of associated committees, forum and meetings.
• Maintenance of risk inventories and governance documentation.
• 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, lead specialists to influence operations in alignment with priorities and develop others.
• 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 to stay aligned with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on analytical thought; perform in-depth analysis to define problems and develop solutions.
• Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Skills

Risk & controls

Securitization

Regulatory awareness

Relationship building

Communication

Job description

Join us as a Risk Governance and Controls VP, where you will help shape and strengthen the governance and control environment supporting strategic risk transfer and securitization activities. You will design, implement, and manage effective control frameworks while ensuring adherence to regulatory, audit, and risk-retention requirements. Working across the organization, you will partner with regulators, senior leaders, and key stakeholders to support sound governance and the successful delivery of structured risk initiatives. This is an opportunity to apply your capital markets expertise, controls experience, and strategic judgment within a leading global financial institution.

To be successful as a Risk Governance and Controls VP, you should have:

• Experience in secured banking products, wholesale banking, or capital markets

• Expertise in securitization and strategic risk transfer activities

• Knowledge of Structured Risk Transfer programs and Tranched Credit Risk Mitigation

• Understanding of risk-retention requirements and relevant regulatory expectations

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience designing, implementing, and managing internal controls

• Background in risk governance, audit support, and regulatory examinations

• Relevant accounting knowledge related to securitization and structured transactions

• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to engage regulators, peers, and senior leadership

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this 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 located in Wilmington, DE.

Purpose of the role

To provide support to the Chief Risk Officer(S) in the implementation and ongoing effectiveness of the bank's risk management framework across various business units and functions.

Accountabilities

• Implementation support of risk management policies, standards, procedures, and controls across the bank.
• Asessment and promotion of risk management awareness and risk controls and culture.
• Review, challenge and monitoring of the effectiveness of existing risk management practices and identifying areas for improvement.
• Identification of new and emerging risks, and assessing the likelihood and impact of identified risks, and recommending appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Management and operation of associated committees, forum and meetings.
• Maintenance of risk inventories and governance documentation.

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.