Risk and Control Partner - AVP

As a Risk and Control Partner at Barclays, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Wholesale Lending Operations Leadership team in managing their internal control framework and meeting obligations in accordance with the Enterprise Risk Management Framework and the Barclays Control Framework. Your responsibilities will include: - Delivering collaborative functional stakeholder support such as coaching, training, and expertise on risk and control activity. - Ensuring all operational risk events and near misses are properly captured in line with policies and standards. - Acting as the principal point of contact for all initiatives and changes affecting the control environment within allocated function(s), identifying risks at the onset of change and implementing appropriate mitigation measures. - Driving improvements in control awareness and management capability. - Supporting the annual RCSA process for the allocated function. - Conducting controls assurance for controls operated within Wholesale Lending in policies and standards. - Identifying new and emerging risks through proactive process reviews. - Managing issues, dispensations, waivers, breaches (DWBs), and risk acceptances in line with policies and standards. - Acting as the liaison point within the function to support CCO, BIA, and external audit programs. - Managing all governance activity for risk events, issues/actions in the approved system of record. - Developing and tracking control performance metrics to support control improvement. - Maintaining and updating the controls library. - Driving the controls assurance strategy and control optimization for the supported function. - Proactively identifying control weaknesses and developing strategies to enhance control strength. - Supporting with the embedding of all relevant policy/standard requirements to ensure compliance. Some other highly valued skills that may be required include knowledge of the Barclays Control Framework policies/standards, awareness of products and services in Wholesale Lending, processes in a Lending Operations function, strong cross-functional agile working ability, knowledge in Performance testing tool, prior experience in preparing test metrics/reports, initiative and judgement, strong risk-aware mindset, effective communication skills, negotiation, influencing, relationship management, planning, organizing skills, and analytical ability. As a Risk and Control Partner, you will be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills. Please note that this role is based in Noida.,