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Ensuring effective management is in place ensuring the banks risk and control framework is adhered to.\nLead the proactive risk management agenda, influence and embed the agenda across the function. \nSupport change projects, acting as a central point of contact between the business and strategic change programmes. Ensuring controls by design is embedded from the inception of the change programme.\nSpecific oversight of rules and the processes and controls operating to ensure a compliant framework;\nSupport engagement with BIA, Compliance and Operational Risk on assurance plans, progress and results for assurance activity impacting the business;\nSupport general governance advisory services to business areas.\nThe role holder will be required to assist with other duties aligned to CCO execution priorities, including but not limited to the Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) processes, Risk Events and Issues Management, Control Environment & Risk Profile Assessments, and ongoing review of activities against the Barclays Control Framework.\nKey Accountabilities:\nDrive the proactive risk management agenda across the function, agree the approach and key focus items with the Global Head.\nTeam management across a global footprint ensuring that the control partners are delivering on key objectives.\nProvide oversight of the implementation of strategic and regulatory change programmes, ensuring that a control by design mindset is followed by the project on behalf of the function in order that the key requirements are met through effective automated controls. Ensuring manual operational activity is avoided or at best limited as an outcome of the project implementation.\nUnderstand and be able to assess the impact that strategic/regulatory change and continuous improvement initiatives have upon the control environment - working with stakeholders in the function to ensure risks are fully understood and appropriate mitigating controls in place. \nRegular and ongoing interaction with BIA, Compliance and Ops Risk colleagues on assurance plans, ensuring these are communicated effectively across impacted areas and acting as a key point of contact and valuable review step within the assurance process for timely escalation of significant issues affecting the control environment.\nProvide robust, effective and insightful reporting, analysis and communication to provide assurance to senior management that the function is compliant with the defined governance framework, with effective escalation of issues as appropriate.\nTake responsibility for own personal and career development, working in a way that is aligned fully to Barclays Values.\nLeadership of planned and ad-hoc business planning activity relating to the role responsibilities.\nEssential Skills/Basic Qualifications:\nOperational Process knowledge, ideally in Client Service environment. \nRisk and control experience including implementation risk & control techniques\nProven track record to drive and execute change\nTechnical Skills / Competencies\nStrong Leadership/People Management skills\nProven capability to operate across a wide remit\nStrong communication and influencing skills\nStrong analytical, decision making and investigatory skills\nProblem solving and high level of attention to detail\nDesirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:\nRisk Management Qualification (e.g. IRM)\nShaping and influencing management thought leadership\nAbility to interact with all levels across the Bank\nExtensive working knowledge of operational risk and control processes and practices, including experience in their application across functions.\nGood relationship and stakeholder management skills across the organization\nExcellent attention to detail, with an ability to make sound judgements and be comfortable to make suggestions to peers, leadership team and across operational teams.\nExcellent written communications skills needed to supplement reporting commentary and wide range of deck production.\nDirector Expectations\nTo manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..\nThey manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..\nProvide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.\nManage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.\nEscalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.\nFoster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.\nFocus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.\nDemonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.\nMaintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.\nUse interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.\nExercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.\nNegotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.\nAct as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.\nMandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.\nAll Senior 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.\nAll 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. 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