Head of Client Data Rigour
Whippany, NJ

As a Barclays Head of Client Data Rigour, you will be aligned to a designated portfolio of Wholesale Onboarding and Group Financial Crime Operations to provide input, guidance and risk management expertise across the Controls environment. This is an opportunity to support the Client Data Maintenance & Business Intelligence who provide data analytics, reference data operations, data domain ownership and data management to support Wholesale Client Onboarding & Group Financial Crime Operations.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

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?

• Providing oversight, guidance and support relating to issues management in respect of risk and control issues including quality and adherence to SLAs
• Being responsible for ensuring frameworks are implemented and managed effectively across aligned businesses, functions and horizontals
• Providing advice, support, education and awareness relating to issues management as part of continuous improvement and enhanced service framework
• Driving improved and sustainable controls culture through use of data led relevant indicators to ensure Control Forums are insightful and conversations risk focused
• Monitoring key indictors and provide insights to leadership to oversee their risk profile, which includes analytics covering root cause analysis of issues and thematic trends
• Identifying and resolving thematic issues to drive control enhancement opportunities through the use of key data such as Control Reporting & Data insights
• Providing consultancy and advisory service to drive high quality risk management in line with strategy, regulation, Group frameworks, policies and standards
• Deploying knowledge and expertise to assess, predict and mitigate future risks whilst guiding the business, functions and horizontals on using the Control Framework

What we’re looking for:

• Ability to influence at senior management level and apply judgement to balance risk versus business interest whilst ensuring compliance to all relevant policies and standards
• Keen knowledgeable on aspects of Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), Operational Risk Framework (ORF) and Barclays Control Framework
• Experience of working in or within a Control type role / team with the ability to demonstrate a risk management mindset
• Experience in people management

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present credibly to senior stakeholders
• Highly experienced in dealing with multiple stakeholders in different business functions who have different objectives e.g. Barclays Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, Fraud, Legal
• Excel skills including extensive experience in managing large quantities of data, pivots, formulas, Vlookup
• Ability to provide thought leadership through bringing together insight and analysis including external knowledge

Where will you be working?

Our next-generation workplace in Whippany allows talented, passionate, down-to-earth colleagues to connect daily. With state-of-the-art work facilities and many added features like pool tables, cafés and a gym – it’s a place you can call home. Our office is minutes away from Morristown, known for its rich history and lively modern spirit. With bustling Manhattan easily accessible and a picturesque landscape here on the doorstep, Whippany really does offer the best of both worlds.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.