Resilience Framework Lead - #1702952

Join us as a Resilience Framework Lead where you will play a pivotal role in developing and maintaining the operational resilience framework ensuring the bank’s ability to withstand and adapt to disruptions while maintaining important business services. You will have the chance to engage with colleagues across the bank and influence key decisions, all while driving impactful change.

To be successful as a Resilience Framework Lead, you should have the following skills/experience:

• Problem solving and analysis of complex problems to deliver a robust resilience control environment (this includes but is not limited to development of a framework for business response planning and scenario testing).
• Knowledge of operational risk management and control frameworks, e.g. operational resilience, crisis management, workforce and third-party resilience.
• Stakeholder management, interpersonal and communication skills e.g. engagement with industry contacts and heads of resilience.
  
  
  

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Knowledge of operational resilience within the financial services sector.
• Experience of working within a risk and controls environment.
• Knowledge of operational resilience regulatory requirements.
  
  
  

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in 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 will be based in Glasgow or Knutsford.

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

• 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.