Join us as a Legal Assurance AVP at Barclays, where you'll play a key role in delivering Legal Assurance Reviews, contributing to the creation and refresh of the Legal Assurance Plan, as well as supporting the development of the Legal Assurance capability as this embeds.
Key skills required for this role include:
- Prior experience of working in an Assurance or Internal Audit role.
- Strong understanding of Assurance or Internal Audit methodologies (including risk assessment, developing testing strategies, documenting work performed and drafting potential issues).
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with experience of supporting stakeholder discussions on work performed (including potential issues).
- Ability to deliver high quality work in a timely and structured manner.
- Enjoys working as part of a team across a broad range of topics and stakeholders.
Additional skills include:
- Assurance or Audit professional qualification(s).
- Experience working with Legal or Financial Services stakeholders
- Practical Data Analytics skills
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is based in Glasgow on a structured hybrid basis.
Purpose of the role
To safeguard the bank's assets and operations by independently assessing the effectiveness of internal controls across various business units and systems.
Accountabilities
- Development of detailed test plans and procedures that comprehensively assess the design and operating effectiveness of controls.
- Performance of independent testing of internal controls, including manual and automated testing techniques, to assess their effectiveness in mitigating identified risks.
- Identification and implementation of improvements to the bank's control testing processes and procedures.
- Collaboration with other control professionals to resolve complex issues and ensure consistent testing methodologies across the bank.
- Preparation of detailed reports summarising the testing results, highlighting key findings and recommendations for remediation.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.