AVP Controls Assurance

Role Overview: Join us for a role in "CCO Functions" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of the digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. Key Responsibilities: - Collaborate across the bank to maintain a satisfactory, robust, and efficient control environment through the execution of ad-hoc assessments and testing on the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls, aligned to control policies and standards. - Develop detailed test plans and procedures to identify weaknesses in internal controls and other initiatives aligned to the bank's control framework to mitigate any potential risks and issues, prioritized by severity to disrupt bank operations, potential losses, and reputational impact. - Communicate key findings and observations to relevant stakeholders and business units to improve overall control efficiency and provide corrective actions to senior managers. Collaborate with other control professionals to resolve complex issues and ensure consistent testing methodologies across the bank. - Develop a knowledge center containing detailed documentation of control assessments, testing on design and operational effectiveness of procedures, findings, and the distribution of material on internal controls to train and upskill colleagues within the bank. Qualifications Required: - 7+ years of overall experience in Controls Assurance/Testing along with one or more of the horizontal/principal risks noted in the job description. - Knowledge of applying Data Analytics techniques. - Knowledge of one or more principal risks in Data governance, data lineage data quality, Records Management (retention, disposal, etc.), People Risk (HR), Supplier risk (Third Party Service Provider), Premises, GRS, etc. - Basic Minimum Educational Qualification Graduate or equivalent. - Experience in the application of methodologies relating to Control Design Effectiveness Assurance and Operating Effectiveness Testing and/or thorough knowledge of one or more principal risks noted above with a desire and aptitude to work in a controls assurance environment. - Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively across a global team. - Relevant professional certification (CA, CIA, CS, MBA) or equivalent. - Knowledge of process re-engineering e.g. LEAN/DMAIC/Value Mapping would be beneficial. - Experience of working within the financial services industry. - Experience of working in a risk, control, audit, or governance function. - Knowledge of Project Management and Change Management, proven through a relevant professional qualification e.g. Prince2, Project Management Institution would be beneficial. - Experience with databases and data science/analytics tools (SQL, Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, etc.). Location: Pune. (Note: Additional details of the company were not found in the provided job description.),