Join us as an AVP in the Contentious Legal Reporting & Governance (CLRG) team at Barclays. This role is focused on supporting the delivery of multiple firm-wide reporting requirements relating to contentious matters managed by Barclays Legal. Specific role responsibilities include: assisting with the planning, execution and timely delivery of Board materials and reports; assisting with the preparation of notes to the financial statements in respect of Legal, Regulatory and Competition matters and Legal Risk for disclosure in Barclays' Results Announcements; monitoring/reporting on litigation provisions and associated governance; assisting with the Bank's external audit process; and assisting with contentious stress testing exercises.
The role requires robust stakeholder management skills to ensure that strong relationships are maintained within the Global Litigation, Investigations & Enforcement team as well as with the Competition, Financial Crime and Employment & Pensions Legal teams and more widely to maintain and develop engagement with the Barclays entity General Counsel teams, Corporate Secretariat, Finance, Group Risk, Investor Relations, the Bank's external auditors and the Bank's external legal advisors.
Key skills required for this role include:
- Paralegal, Legal Executive or other similar background.
- Experience of collating and reporting management information.
- Project management experience.
- Experience working within financial services industry.
Other highly valued skills include:
- Excellent communication and inter-personal skills with the ability to flex style to meet stakeholder requirements.
- Delivery focused, working to high standards of performance with ability to juggle tasks, prioritise, and work under pressure, delivering to tight deadlines and multiple demands.
- Strong analytical skills and high level of attention to detail.
- Displays initiative and works collaboratively with a track record of successfully working both independently and as part of a team.
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 will be based in Glasgow.
Purpose of the role
To support the bank's decision-making processes by providing timely, accurate, and insightful information through designing, developing, and maintaining management reports and dashboards that effectively communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) and trends across various business units.
Accountabilities
- Design and development of comprehensive reports and dashboards using various data visualization tools and techniques.
- Design, development and implementation of automated report generation processes for improved efficiency and timeliness.
- Identification and analysis of business requirements to define report content and format.
- Maintenance and updating of existing reports and dashboards to reflect changing business needs, including co-ordination of reporting template releases and related administrative tasks.
- Development of robust processes & controls for collating input data & seeking signoffs as required.
- Engagement with stakeholders as needed to ensure up to date data is incorporated into reporting.
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.