Vice President, Controls Business Partner

As a VP Controls Business Partner at Barclays, you will play a crucial role in supporting the successful delivery of Location Strategy projects by ensuring they meet planning, budget, quality, and governance standards. You will lead the evolution of the digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence to enhance customer experiences through cutting-edge technology. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Control Governance:** Organize and lead Control governance forums, leveraging data and analytics to ensure insightful conversations are risk-focused. Oversee the Controls framework. - **Process and Procedure Management:** Provide Control SME input to ensure processes are appropriately designed and fit for purpose, including adapting to business and regulatory changes. - **Risk & Controls Self-assessment:** Lead the implementation of the process, manage escalations related to Risk Events, Issues & EUDAs. - **Thematic & Targeted Reviews:** Undertake reviews requiring specialist knowledge in line with business risk priorities. Establish proactive risk management processes. - **Incident Management:** Provide SME input to incidents, perform analysis of historic events, and drive a proactive risk management culture. - **Simplification & Automation:** Identify opportunities to simplify and automate processes. Support embedding a culture of simplification, automation, and data analytics. - **People Management:** Develop direct reports" skills and performance through training & coaching. Monitor their performance and provide feedback for improvement. **Qualifications Required:** - Certified Internal Auditor/ CPA or equivalent qualification in Auditing or Risk Management with experience. - Graduate / Post Graduate qualification required. - Good understanding of front to back processes across diverse Banking businesses. - Extensive experience in senior stakeholder management and communication of internal control concepts clearly. - Ability to manage reporting lines and relationships across multiple disciplines. - Understanding and application of Data science and analytics. Barclays expects you to contribute to strategy, drive change, manage resources and budgets, and deliver continuous improvements. If you have leadership responsibilities, you are expected to demonstrate the LEAD behaviours: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others. For individual contributors, you will be a subject matter expert guiding technical direction and leading collaborative assignments. You will collaborate with stakeholders, manage and mitigate risks, demonstrate leadership, and accountability for managing risk. You will also seek to build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to achieve key business objectives. All colleagues at Barclays are expected to embody the values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.,