NAPA Director

Noida, India

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Date live: Sep. 23, 2024

Business Area: Risk

Area of Expertise: Controls

Reference Code: JR-0000012191

Contract: Permanent

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Overall purpose of role

This is a pivotal Director role for Operational Risk and Risk Oversight, NAPA Services. Require a dynamic champion and engaging leader for the newly created ORRO TC, leading NAPA team to front run strategies and Business Requirements and support peers and stakeholders and emulate the Barclays Values and Mindset.

The core purpose of the role is to

Lead technical functional review activity on the due diligence performed by Functions on proposals during the NAPA and Product Review process (whilst review is in flight).
Partner with Business and Functions head to deliver the NAPA pipeline in line with Barclays Strategy and Commercial viability.
Independent review, challenge new proposals in line with Policy and Standard
Lead the strategic agenda, host committee meetings.
Drive cultural change through superior employee engagement.

To succeed in this role, you will have subject matter expertise in most of the following disciplines:

Good Understanding or working experience of either of Business (Corporates, Investment Banking, Markest, Equity, Private and Wealth Mgt.)
Ability to perform Risk Management of New Product
Compliance or Regulation, Fraud Risk, Legal
Finance and/or Treasury / Treasury Risk

Key Accountabilities

As a member of the NAPA Services team, you are expected to be a trusted advisor to the Group Head of NAPA Services and work in partnership collaboratively and productively with your fellow peers, colleagues across the NAPA and Product Review community and stakeholders to manage the NAPA and Product Review processes, and Product Register. You will have significant exposure to senior management across the bank.

You will be the key person of escalation for all aspects of this remit, and escalate, as required, to Group Head of NAPA Services

You will be actively engaged and closely managing the team to support you in delivering activities, with specific focus on:

Rigorous technical review of the due diligence performed by Functions whilst proposal is in flight, this includes the review of actions and conditions raised, and their closure at point of proposal approval.
Challenging stakeholders to enhance their due diligence on NAPA and / or Product Review proposals.
Engaging with colleagues in BU NAPA teams, working side-by-side to enable a robust quality assurance of each NAPA proposal.
Engaging with Employee Engagement team to embed continuous improvement through training
Engaging with NAPA Services Conformance team to ensure continuity of review

And with this in-depth visibility, you will work with peers across NAPA and PD&R to:

Drive continuous improvement through specific and general education to stakeholders and peers, enriching the quality of the proposals
Identify controls and processes to be strengthened within the Policy and Standards

Identify where question sets / artefacts need enhancement
Augment governance and senior MI with appropriate narrative
Collaborate on system and process changes

This role will enable NAPA Services to support the continued enhancement and effective operation of the NAPA and Product Review processes across the Group

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

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.

Director Expectations

Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.

More about working at Barclays

Barclays has been in Asia Pacific for over 50 years, supporting corporations and financial institutions across the Asia Pacific region and connecting them to the capital markets of UK, Europe and the Americas. For more information click here.

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