AVP- CBP Technology- BI Markets

Join us as a "AVP CBP Technology BI Markets" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

To be successful as a "AVP CBP Technology BI Markets", you should have experience with:

• Stakeholder Management.
• Decision Making & Problem Solving.
• Strong Communication Skills.

Person Specification:

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a fast-paced, high volume, results driven environment.
• Excellent communication skills (both oral/written) including ability to clearly communicate risks and control issues to technologists and non-technologists.
• Good understanding of retail and investment banking domain, technology setup and ability to understand technology-enabled business risk.
• Excellent analytical and methodical approach to respond to internal and external events related to Technology & Cyber, emerging threats, identified vulnerabilities, regulatory actions.
• Detail orientated with excellent time management skills.
• Problem solving – ability to think unconventionally and find solutions to unstructured problems.
• Ability to network and establish rapport with internal colleagues across global teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate difficult or complex ideas clearly and constructively.
• Collaborative, able to drive agreement across varying stakeholders.
• Confident in negotiating and influencing colleagues or stakeholders.
• Degree of independent thinking and decision-making authority, and ability to influence upwards.
• Strong assertiveness skills and ability to challenge effectively at all the levels in the organization on the underlying risk management.
• Being a global role, person must be adaptive and flexible to work across various time zones.

Essential Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science and equivalent work experience in relevant industry with strong background in risk management, technology and information security.
• Experience in assessing design and operating effectiveness of technology controls.
• Experience of a project environment, in particular planning, testing, and tracking against a plan.
• Experience in leveraging IT risk frameworks such as COBIT5, COSO, NIST.
• Hands-on experience of information technology risks, controls and risk remediation and experience using industry wide GRC tools.

Desirable skills:

• Review of Audit findings, self-identified issues and breaches to align them with operational risk, regulatory requirements and Barclay’s Control Framework.
• Advising IT on pragmatic approaches to meeting regulatory mandated technology controls and risk reduction.
• Relevant professional certification such as CISA, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, PMP or equivalent.

Location-Pune.

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.

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.