Barclays Careers – Risk and Control

About the job

Risk and Control Project Management Officer

As a Barclays Risk and Control Project Management Officer, you will be joining Markets team within Markets Pre-Trade business area. You will be instrumental in implementing the Markets Pre-Trade team as we build out our Risk and Control PMO function. In your new role you will manage Execution Risk effectively, deliver on our Group strategy and satisfy all our stakeholders. Your team will deliver our initiatives consistently and transparently.

Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

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?

• Reporting coordinates and produces agreed reporting on the Risk and Control book of work e.g., updates to actions and issues. Updating Jira and ORAC at regular intervals
• Establishing and maintaining progress reports for the organisation, ensuring that community of Control Leads owners keep their teams on track with deliverables
• Planning assists asset class points of contact in planning the Risk and Control book of work to ensure no blockages/ pinch points
• You will be responsible for ensuring team follow project governance standards/methods
• Assisting with asset class points of contact with MTP requests- ensures all ORACs have budget assigned to them
• Supporting the points of contact in assessing the combined risk presented by the book of work items, including the tracking of thematic issues in a particular asset class
• Gathering data to support the resource and effort required to close out a particular issue escalating in a timely fashion if deliverables are at risk
• Ensuring all stakeholders are aware of initiative progress and have the information they need to make the right decisions in a timely manner

What We’re Looking For

• Experience with Microsoft packages, including Project, Powerpoint, Word and Excel
• Good organizational skills, with attention to detail and focus on controls
• Exposure to each stage of the project life cycle and governance of each phase, from inception through to implementation and closure
• Familiarity with the Financial Services environment

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Self-motivated with a high level of self-responsibility
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and planning skills
• Exposure to effective communication with other project team members, including Technology, business, and Compliance teams
• Ability to escalate issue to management as appropriate

Where will you be working?

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one – by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.