To deliver data-driven oversight and constructive challenge on NAPA submissions raised by the Business, ensuring full alignment with Barclays’ functional, regulatory, and compliance standards. Evaluate the integrity and effectiveness of the bank’s internal control framework to proactively mitigate operational, financial, and reputational risks. Strengthen the Risk Function’s role in safeguarding the bank’s resilience by assessing control adequacy and identifying gaps. Lead governance across product design and review processes to uphold robust risk management discipline and control adherence. Champion a culture of accountability and transparency through rigorous oversight, enabling informed decision-making and sustainable risk mitigation.

Accountabilities

• Risk Assessment Expertise: Leverage deep knowledge of business areas, products, processes, and platforms to assess and manage risk effectively.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders across the bank to enhance control effectiveness through thorough documentation of assessments, procedures, and findings.

• Team Leadership & Oversight: Actively manage the team to deliver key activities, including technical reviews, stakeholder challenge, and quality assurance of NAPA/Product Review proposals.

• Due Diligence Review: Conduct rigorous reviews of due diligence performed by Functions, ensuring actions and conditions are addressed before proposal approval.

• Cross-Functional Engagement: Collaborate with BU NAPA teams, Employee Engagement, and NAPA Services Conformance to embed continuous improvement and maintain review continuity.

• Control Framework Evaluation: Execute reviews to assess the effectiveness of internal controls aligned with policies, regulations, and best practices.

• Governance & Delivery Oversight: Provide governance for managed, consumed, and BAU projects, translating requirements, removing blockers, and managing delivery risks.

• Data Quality Controls: Develop and implement procedures to ensure data quality and integrity across reporting and analytics.

• Strategic Risk Monitoring: Monitor and evaluate strategy effectiveness, investigate risk events, and oversee corrective and preventive actions.

• Regulatory Compliance & Integration: Implement policies aligned with regulatory and international standards, collaborating with 1LOD, Compliance, Legal, and Risk teams for holistic risk management.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..

• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..

• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..

• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..

• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.

• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.

• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.

• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.

• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.

• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.

• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.

• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.