About the Role
Join us as an Internal Auditor at Barclays where you will play a pivotal role in leading audits covering Barclays Corporate Bank. You will work collaboratively with others in BIA to develop strong independent Auditee relationships and conduct audit activity to provide independent assurance on the effectiveness of internal controls. You will also ensure that audits/assignments on a day-to-day basis are completed to a high standard in line with audit methodology and you will support delivery of the Barclays Audit Plan.
Responsibilities
- Support the development of audits aligned to the bank’s standards and objectives.
- Provide accurate information and recommendations.
- Comply with policies and procedures.
- Support audit development and delivery, including financial statements, accounting practices, operational processes, IT systems and risk management.
- Identify operational risks to support the delivery of the Barclays Internal Audit (BIA) Audit Plan through risk assessments.
- Assess internal control effectiveness and their capability to identify and mitigate risk aligned to regulatory requirements.
- Communicate key findings and recommendations to stakeholders, including the Audit Owner, senior managers and directors.
- Identify regulatory news and industry trends/developments to provide timely insight and recommendations for best practice.
- 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.
- 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.
- Define problems and develop innovative solutions through in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking.
- 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.
Requirements
- Experience working in Internal Audit within a bank.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to negotiate complex and challenging conversations.
- Strong data analytics skills to identify opportunities on audits and drive the proof-of-concept requirements for the testing.
- Critical thinking mindset, able to scope an audit, raise issues and identify ways to improve the process.
- Strong communications skills, excellent attention to detail.
- Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
- Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- Negotiation
- Data analytics
- Critical thinking
- Communication
- Attention to detail
- Risk and controls
- Change and transformation
- Business acumen
- Strategic thinking
- Digital and technology
- Job-specific technical skills
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Vice President
Education Level
- CIA, ACCA or ACA qualification or equivalent (highly desirable but not essential)
About the Company
- Barclays is a global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management services.
