VP, Risk Governance & Controls - Structured Finance

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

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