AVP Finance CCO

As an Assistant Vice President in Finance Chief Controls Office at Barclays, your primary responsibility is to provide independent assurance on control processes and offer advice on enhancements to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework. Key Responsibilities: - Collaborate across the bank to maintain a satisfactory, robust, and efficient control environment by executing ad-hoc assessments and testing on the design and operational effectiveness of internal controls, aligned with control policies and standards. - Develop detailed test plans and procedures to identify weaknesses in internal controls and other initiatives aligned with the bank's control framework to mitigate potential risks, prioritize issues by severity, and minimize disruptions, potential losses, and reputational impact. - Communicate key findings and observations to relevant stakeholders and business units to enhance overall control efficiency, provide corrective actions to senior managers, and collaborate with other control professionals to address complex issues and ensure consistent testing methodologies across the bank. - Establish a knowledge center containing detailed documentation of control assessments, testing on design and operational effectiveness of procedures, findings, and distribution of material on internal controls to train and upskill colleagues within the bank. Qualifications Required: - Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present credibly to senior stakeholders. - Working knowledge of operational risk & control processes, including experience in their application across functions with a risk management mindset. - Good understanding of SOx requirements, the COSO framework, and its application to internal controls over financial reporting. - Experience in Product Control/Financial Control/Regulatory reporting and/or Auditing, preferably in Financial Services. - Experienced in identifying, documenting, and testing controls. - Formal Accounting qualification (ACCA, CIMA, ACA, or equivalent). - Ability to understand, implement, and drive improvements to a risk & control framework.,