Barclays Jobs 2023 – Validation Analyst

About the job

Issue Validation Analyst

As a Barclays Issue Validation Analyst, you will join us to work within the Transformation and Issue Closure Assurance teams to review the actions across the Group to strengthen the associated control environment, validating whether the intended outcome has been achieved and its associated sustainability. In your new role, you will also be supporting the implementation and execution of the enhanced issue closure process, which will provide additional assurance for a subset of regulator identified issues.

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.

This opportunity is location flexible. We will consider requests for locating the role at an alternative Barclays’ key UK office from that advertised.

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?

• Supporting the wider Transformation and Issue Closure Assurance team in undertaking assurance activities
• Supporting the needs of key internal and external risk processes, reporting schedules
• Supporting the evaluation, reporting and escalation of risks in line with Barclay’s risk and control frameworks
• Providing an opinion as to whether risks have been fully mitigated
• Conducting risk assignments in line with Barclays Policies and Standards
• Contributing to the continued evolvement and embedding of the target operating model

What We’re Looking For

• An undergraduate degree or relevant business experience
• Proven experience in either Internal/External Audit; Operational Risk Management; or Risk, and/or Control-related disciplines, for example Controls Testing
• Experience of working in a Bank or Financial Services
• A good understanding of risk and control assessment techniques

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Specialist Risk and/or Control-related qualification – formal accreditation/ qualification relating to audit, risk and/or control etc.
• Broad knowledge of the Financial Services regulatory environment
• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to work in a matrix organisation
• Adaptability to change and being comfortable operating in an agile environmen

Where will you be working?

Knutsford

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 64acre 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.

Glasgow

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.

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