Digital Assets Controls

Job Description

Purpose of the role

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

Accountabilities

- Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
- Collaboration with various 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, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
- 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 set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

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.

Join Barclays as a Digital Assets Business Control Officer within the Chief Controls Office (CCO), where you will play a key role in supporting and strengthening the risk and control environment across Digital Assets.

You will partner with multiple business units, CCO and wider stakeholders to identify and assess risks, enhance controls and support the effective application of Barclays' risk and control framework. Using your knowledge of digital assets and the evolving risk landscape, you will provide effective challenge, support the management and remediation of control issues, and help ensure emerging risks are appropriately understood and managed.

You will play a pivotal role managing the risk and control requirements that will support the delivery of the Digital Asset products for our customer and clients across our business units.

The role will require strong analytical judgement and stakeholder management, with the ability to translate complex digital asset risks into clear control requirements and practical actions. This reflects the wider CCO approach of partnering with senior stakeholders to drive remediation, strengthen governance and embed sustainable control improvements.

To be successful as a Digital Assets Business Control Officer, you must have:

- Risk and controls experience, with experience of assessing, designing, implementing or enhancing controls and risk management processes.
- Knowledge of digital assets, including an understanding of the key risks and controls associated with areas such as cryptocurrencies, tokenisation, blockchain or distributed ledger technologies.
- Change and transformation experience, with a proven ability to support or deliver complex change initiatives, assess the impact of change on the control environment and embed sustainable risk and control improvements.
- Strong digital product knowledge, with an understanding of digital product lifecycles and the risks and controls associated with the design, development and implementation of new digital products and capabilities.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage, challenge and work effectively with senior stakeholders across business, risk, compliance and control functions.

Other highly valued skills include:

- Experience of digital assets regulatory and control frameworks, with an understanding of the evolving regulatory environment and its impact on financial institutions.
- Knowledge of governance, risk assessments, issue management, RCSA, control monitoring or assurance/testing, particularly within a regulated financial services environment.
- Experience of using data and management information to identify risk themes, support governance and enable effective senior management decision-making.
- Understanding how digital assets may introduce new or evolving operational, conduct, technology and regulatory risks.
- Experience of working within Agile methodologies and ways of working, including collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to deliver change, manage risk and embed controls throughout the delivery lifecycle.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based out of London.

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