
at Barclays
Bulge Bracket Investment BanksPosted 12 days ago
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**Governance and Oversight – Financial Crime** Seeking an organized and confident **Governance and Oversight** expert to join our Financial Crime team. Responsibilities involve managing third-party risk, ensuring compliance risk assessments, and partnering with procurement for robust governance frameworks. Key skills include strong stakeholder management, workstream prioritization, clear written communication, and experience with Key Risk Indicators (KRI's). Experience in third-party risk management and delivering large programmes is a plus. Role requires understanding risk and controls, change management, and strategic thinking. Located in London, this role supports the Chief Risk Officer, implementing and overseeing risk management frameworks across business units.
- Compensation
- Not specified GBP
- City
- London
- Country
- United Kingdom
Currency: £ (GBP)
Full Job Description
We are seeking a highly organised and confident Governance and Oversight to join our Financial Crime team in a governance-focused role. This position spans multiple central offices and is accountable for managing third-party risk and governance standards. You will play a critical role in ensuring Compliance Risk Assessments have been completed to the correct standard, and partnering with procurement colleagues to implement robust governance frameworks.
To be successful as a Governance and Oversight, you should have:
Strong Stakeholder Management skills, being able to manage senior stakeholders and handle challenging conversations with confidence.
Skilled at prioritising and managing multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce clear and accurate reports.
Experience in managing/reviewing KRI's (Key Risk Indicator's)
Some other highly valued skills may include:
Experience in managing third-party risk and governance processes.
Proven ability to deliver large programmes or projects successfully.
Familiarity with working on complex initiatives involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
You may be assessed on the 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 London.
Purpose of the role
To provide support to the Chief Risk Officer(S) in the implementation and ongoing effectiveness of the bank's risk management framework across various business units and functions.
Accountabilities
- Implementation support of risk management policies, standards, procedures, and controls across the bank.
- Asessment and promotion of risk management awareness and risk controls and culture.
- Review, challenge and monitoring of the effectiveness of existing risk management practices and identifying areas for improvement.
- Identification of new and emerging risks, and assessing the likelihood and impact of identified risks, and recommending appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Management and operation of associated committees, forum and meetings.
- Maintenance of risk inventories and governance documentation.
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.




