Risk and Control Partner - AVP

Join us as a Risk and Control Partner at Barclays. As a Risk and Control Partner, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Wholesale Lending Operations Leadership team in managing the internal control framework and fulfilling obligations aligned with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework and the Barclays Control Framework. Your responsibilities will include promoting a strong self-assessment culture and enhancing risk ownership among line managers and team members. To excel in this role, you should possess the following experience and skills: - Providing collaborative functional stakeholder support through coaching, training, and expertise in risk and control activities. - Ensuring all operational risk events and near misses are documented in accordance with policies and standards. - Serving as the primary point of contact for initiatives and changes affecting the control environment, identifying risks at the outset of changes, and implementing appropriate mitigation measures. - Driving improvements in control awareness and management capability. - Assisting with the annual RCSA process for the allocated function. - Conducting controls assurance for controls operated within Wholesale Lending based on policies and standards. - Identifying new and emerging risks through proactive process reviews. - Managing issues, dispensations, waivers, breaches, and risk acceptances in line with policies and standards. - Acting as a liaison within the function to support CCO, BIA, and external audit programs. - Overseeing all governance activities related to risk events, issues, and actions in the approved system of record. - Developing and tracking control performance metrics to enhance control effectiveness. - Maintaining and updating the controls library. - Driving the controls assurance strategy and control optimization for the supported function. - Proactively identifying control weaknesses and devising strategies to enhance control strength. - Assisting in embedding relevant policy and standard requirements to ensure compliance. Additionally, key valued skills may include knowledge of the Barclays Control Framework policies/standards, understanding of products and services in Wholesale Lending, familiarity with Lending Operations processes, strong cross-functional agile working ability, knowledge of performance testing tools, experience in preparing test metrics/reports, initiative, judgment, strong risk-aware mindset, effective communication skills, strong analytical ability, and the ability to implement operational improvement activities. This role is based in Noida and aims to monitor quality standards and policies across operational processes, collaborate with control owners to execute Risk Control Self Assessments (RSCA), and identify and mitigate risks and regulatory trends impacting the bank's operations. In summary, as a Risk and Control Partner at Barclays, you are expected to provide strategic guidance, collaborate with various teams, lead complex tasks, and contribute to policy development to ensure operational effectiveness and risk mitigation. You will also be responsible for fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement in line with Barclays" values and mindset.,