BIA Financial Crime Glasgow, Scotland
Job description
Vice President Financial Crime Internal Auditor
Glasgow
As a Barclays Vice President Financial Crime Internal Auditor, you will provide independent assurance over the effectiveness of controls to mitigate financial crime risk across the different businesses. You will have an opportunity to work closely with others across Barclays Internal Audit (BIA), while developing significant client relationships which are independent, and you will be seen as a respected voice. You will also assist the delivery of the BIA Audit Plan.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
- Working closely and helping the Director to define the appropriate coverage strategy and audit plan for Financial Crime
- Guiding, reviewing, and approving work carried out on audit assignments to ensure the scope of work is appropriate, controls are correctly identified, assessed and carried out
- Reviewing and completing processes and documentation of scoping, risk & control identification, control evaluation and issues
- Writing high quality issues and audit reports (with input from the audit team)
- Managing audit teams on a day-to-day basis, working to ensure that audits progress as planned, as regards scope, budget and timetable
- Continuing to update awareness of risk issues and changes across relevant business units and use this knowledge to update audit approach where necessary
- Providing timely updates to the Directors and Managing Director of Audit around progress and observations
- Owning and championing the Continuous Monitoring process and developing personal specialism and sharing this with the team
- Experience in risk-based auditing or risk/control activities and technical knowledge in the relevant specialist field of Financial Crime Risk
- Relevant professional qualifications related to Financial Crime and/or Internal Auditing
- In depth practical understanding of the relevant regulatory environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Prior experience in managing high performing Audit teams
- Previous exposure to regulatory interaction /engagement
- Financial services industry knowledge
- Knowledge about new and emerging financial products and services
Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.
#LI-Hybrid
#GF2021
