Business Risk Manager

About Private Bank (PB) Chief Operating Office (COO)

Barclays Private Bank strives to curate the right solutions for a diverse range of clients through an international network of specialists, located across the globe. Barclays Private Bank delivers full banking and investment service capabilities to meet the particular needs of clients. Through its Game Plan, Barclays Private Bank has a clear strategy to extend its product shelf, win in the home market and expand its international footprint, whilst delivering superior and scalable client experience.

About Private Bank (PB) Chief Operating Office (COO)

The PB COO function has recently been formed within BX (Barclays Execution Services), bringing together the BD&C (Business Delivery & Controls), Operations and Technology teams all under one Transaction Cycle (TC); supporting and enabling the Private Bank globally. The bringing together of front-to-bank functions has created the opportunity to pivot the organisational design to be aligned to the client journey, as well as by product and geographical locations / platforms. It has also created the opportunity to re-position the role of the COO within PB from being an extension of the business to being a genuine strategic partner to the business; carefully balancing the needs of clients, the business, colleagues and shareholders.

Overall purpose of role

Within the Private Banking Services division of Barclays, the Swiss Private Banking team offers bespoke banking and investment solutions to high net worth individuals across the globe. It provides a comprehensive range of investment advice across all asset classes, wealth structuring advice and banking services. It operates in both onshore and offshore markets and is organised around market-focused teams covering Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Monaco.

The primary objective of this role is to support the Front Office and Investment Product supervision framework. To drive heightened levels of compliance with regulatory, reputational, control & governance demands, leading to superior client experience and client-banker engagement. As such the team is an embedded part of the ‘1st Line of Defence’ of the Barclays Group approach to risk management.

Key Accountabilities

**Control and Governance**
- In collaboration with the other team members in Control Delivery, the role holder will be required to define, implement, review and improve the controls and risk management processes required to effectively support client-facing and product teams in delivering a strong and consistent risk management and control environment.
- The role holder must enforce the risk management focus in order to ensure that the Business can effectively manage and monitor its own risks and performance in this regard, without unnecessary intervention from 2 LOD Control Functions (e.g. Operational Risk, Compliance, etc.) who should act in an advisory and oversight capacity only. In managing risks and performance it is important that the role can analyse and identify gaps in business processes and systems flows to ensure that these are appropriately escalated and addressed.
- The role holder must establish controls and metrics that enable clear visibility of risks and behaviours within the business and ensure that issues are identified and escalated to line management as well as to appropriate governance forums, whilst maintaining consistency of approach across the Private Bank.

**Business Risk Change Management**

The Business Risk Manager will provide direction in all aspects of Business Risk Management, supporting definition and embedding of new policies and procedures while also driving consistency of approach across the platform

Risk and Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Person Specification
- Be able to demonstrate high standards of integrity and capacity to evoke trust and openness in colleagues
- Be a self-starter
- Have the ability to multi task and prioritise with strong organisational skills
- Have the ability to work under pressure
- Be a team player with a capacity for building strong collaborative relationships

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

- Excellent relationship management skills are an essential part of this role, including interaction with senior stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of VBA-based analysis tools
- Strong numerical and analytical skills

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

- A degree level qualification or equivalent.

Language skills:

- Strong English language skills are essential, good working knowledge of French is preferred

Purpose, Values** **and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

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