Head of Resilience Board and Self-Assessment Reporting

Barclays Resilience is hiring a Head of Resilience Board and Self-Assessment Reporting.

This role is critical to ensuring the Board and senior management are informed about the firm's resilience risk position and remediation plans.

The role holder will own the development and delivery of key reports, such as the board-approved resilience self-assessment, a regulatory requirement. The role is also integral to the firm's response to regulatory feedback.

Skills vital to this role include:

• Board-ready written communication skills
• Advanced visual presentation skills
• Execution of group-wide processes
• Regulatory and internal reporting
• Design of controls, KPIs, and metrics
• Knowledge of Resilience

Purpose of the role

To develop, implement, and maintain an effective resilience strategy, operational recovery planning, and incident management framework aligned with industry standards and regulatory expectations, to enable the bank to respond and recover important business services during severe but plausible scenarios, minimizing impact on customers, clients, colleagues, and the wider market.

Accountabilities

• Socialize and implement the resilience strategy and framework across the firm, ensuring compliance with standards and controls.
• Develop and enhance resilience, crisis, and incident management capabilities to ensure continuity of Important Business Services during disruptions.
• Enhance standards and controls for operational recovery planning and security incident management based on industry practices and regulatory requirements.
• Oversee improvements in business and technology recovery capabilities, including third-party recovery resources.
• Communicate the firm's resilience position through scorecards and dashboards to support investment decisions.
• Improve resilience and incident response through regular testing to demonstrate recovery capabilities.
• Ensure services and products are built resiliently through change management processes.
• Stay updated on resilience developments, regulatory policies, and emerging threats.
• Mitigate impacts of incidents by identifying, responding to, and resolving threats.
• Document and analyze incidents to support preventative measures and improvements.

Director Expectations

• Manage a business function, contributing to strategic initiatives, policies, and projects.
• Lead a large team or act as a technical expert, coaching and guiding less experienced staff.
• Provide expert advice to senior management and influence decisions.
• Manage resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for the sub-function.
• Ensure compliance with regulations and internal policies.
• Monitor and influence external regulatory and industry developments.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of industry practices and external market trends.
• Use advanced analytical skills to solve complex problems.
• Make strategic decisions within the area of responsibility.
• Negotiate and influence stakeholders internally and externally.
• Serve as a principal contact and spokesperson for the function.

All senior leaders are expected to embody the LEAD behaviours: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.

All colleagues should demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, Drive.