CCO Head of Controls Europe - ICB, Wholesale Lending & International

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the bank's internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the bank's operational, financial, and reputational risk.

Accountabilities

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to assess risk.
• Collaboration with stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank's control framework.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment, including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and setting an appropriate methodology for assessing controls against the Framework.

Director Expectations

Manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures, plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, and lead organisation wide projects as a deep technical expert.

Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists, ensuring long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.

Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees, coordinate resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a sub function, and enforce policy and regulatory compliance.

Role Specific Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee CCO risk and control activities across the region, covering International Corporate Banking (ICB - Coverage), Transaction Banking and Wholesale Lending.
• Handle day to day risk and issues management, ORAC, remediation, and local governance.
• Align risk activities with growth initiatives and identify, assess and remediate issues and opportunities for enhancements across the operating model.

Experience Required

• Risk or control background (or similar role in 2nd or 3rd line of defence such as Compliance, Audit, Op Risk).
• Robust knowledge of bank governance frameworks/ERMF, internal policies and standards, and the front to back operation of a bank.
• Proven depth of expertise in risk aspects of strategy.
• Demonstrable experience in leadership; prior line management experience essential.
• Experience working with multiple EU regulators or regulatory matters preferred.
• Knowledge of corporate banking products and operations preferred.

Leadership Behaviours

• L - Listen and be authentic.
• E - Energise and inspire.
• A - Align across the enterprise.
• D - Develop others.