Overview
Join Barclays in the Office of Legal Obligations (OLO) as a Control Mapping Operations (CMO) Vice President (VP), where you will play a critical role in shaping strategic outcomes through rigorous analysis and insight. In this role, you will lead the assessment and interpretation of complex, multi-source information to produce clear, defensible insights that drive strategic decision-making and senior management action. You will address high-impact issues by applying structured analytical thinking, sound judgment, and a strong understanding of business, risk, and regulatory considerations to deliver practical, value-adding solutions.
You will communicate complex matters with clarity and confidence to senior leadership and governance forums, tailoring messages to diverse audiences and clearly articulating implications, options, and recommendations. You will also oversee and personally contribute to the production of high-quality, senior-ready materials—including executive packs, MI, briefing papers, and governance submissions—that distill complexity into compelling narratives and withstand executive and regulatory scrutiny.
To be successful in the role of Control Mapping Operations (VP), you will demonstrate:
* Proven experience in strategic analysis and the interpretation of complex, multi-source data to generate robust insights that directly inform strategic decisions and executive action.
* Strong judgment and problem-solving capability when addressing significant business, risk, or regulatory challenges.
* Experience presenting to Executive Committees, Boards, and formal governance forums.
* A track record of overseeing and contributing to high-quality, senior-level deliverables, including executive packs, MI, briefing materials, and governance papers.
* The ability to provide effective leadership across teams and stakeholders, fostering a culture of analytical rigour, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Additional highly valued skills include:
* Experience in data-driven roles within strategy, risk, regulatory, or advisory environments, with significant exposure to senior leadership or executive audiences.
* Advanced analytical capability, including working with complex datasets, management information, and performance metrics, with familiarity in data visualisation and analytical tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Excel, or equivalent), and a clear focus on insight rather than tooling.
* A strong understanding of risk management frameworks, regulatory expectations, and governance processes, including experience producing materials subject to regulatory, audit, or supervisory review.
* Exceptional written and verbal communication skills at executive level.
* Demonstrated people leadership, including mentoring senior professionals and leading effectively through influence.
You may be assessed against critical capability areas relevant to success in the role, including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, alongside role-specific technical skills
This role can be based in Knutsford or Glasgow.
Purpose of the role
To partner with the bank, to provide independent assurance on control processes and advise on improvements to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the bank’s internal controls framework.
Accountabilities
* Collaboration across the bank to maintain a satisfactory, robust, and efficient control environment through the execution of ad-hoc assessments and testing on the design and operational effectiveness of the internal controls, aligned to control policies and standards.
* Development of detailed test plans and procedures to identify weaknesses in internal controls and other initiatives aligned to the bank’s control framework to mitigate any potential risks and issues, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations, potential losses, and reputational impact.
* Communication of key findings and observations to the relevant stakeholders and business units to improve overall control efficiency and provide corrective actions to senior managers. Collaboration with other control professionals to resolve complex issues and ensure consistent testing methodologies across the bank.
* Development of a knowledge centre containing detailed documentation of control assessments, testing on design and operational effectiveness of procedures, findings, and the distribution of material on internal controls to train and upskill colleagues within the bank.
Vice President Expectations
* To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
* If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
* 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
* Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
* Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
* Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
* Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
* Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
* Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
* Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
* Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.
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