Barclays UK Jobs – Assurance Manager

About the job

Senior Assurance Manager

As a Barclays Senior Assurance Manager your role will form part of the Operational Risk Framework, Capital and Reporting team and part of the Operational Risk Assurance team, who are responsible for the management of Operational Risk assurance activities undertaken to oversee the implementation and execution of the Operational Risk Framework and performance of the Operational Risk Transaction Cycle.

Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We’ve helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

Hybrid Working

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Managing the Operational Risk Assurance Plan on a bi-annual basis to inform the annual review plan, working with stakeholders across Operational Risk and broader Risk Services
• Planning and information gathering to finalise the scope for individual reviews
• Testing and complete analysis to ensure framework requirements are met
• Raising issues where controls are found to be ineffective and track any remedial actions to completion
• Monitoring performance against agreed and documented assurance indicators and measures
• Tracking issues raised through assurance activities, as well as dispensations, waivers & breaches that relate to the ORF, including regular reporting and escalation for overdue items
• Producing reports covering all assurance activities completed within the Operational Risk Assurance team for Senior Management meetings and Committees
• Presenting results through regular and ad hoc updates as required

What We’re Looking For

• The candidate will have excellent command of the English language with strong written and oral communication skills with an ability to communicate and influence at all levels in the business.
• Assurance experience, including undertaking conformance reviews, control testing, audit, or other related experience and knowledge acquired with a leading bank and/or consultancy.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail combined with commercial awareness. Shows ability to think laterally, develop and deliver effective solutions against tight deadlines.
• The ability to produce high quality documentation and present results from assurance activities with clarity, including formal reports, presentations and updates to Senior Management.

Skills that will help you in the role

• Understanding and experience of operational risk management and framework. Knowledge of best practice in respect of risk and control frameworks and associated regulatory requirements.
• The candidate will be educated to a degree level or equivalent, or have an appropriate professional qualification.
• Professional qualification in a related discipline is preferable (Audit / Risk etc). Knowledge of industry standards in relation to control & assurance (e.g. COSO).
• Be a member of one of the recognised industry bodies specialising in Operational Risk Management and have progressed towards obtaining a recognised professional qualification.

Where will you be working?

You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.