Date live:21/08/2025
Business Area:Control
Area of Expertise:Controls
Contract:Permanent
Reference Code:JR-0000061885
Join us as a Business Control Officer at Barclays, where you will 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.

To be successful in the role of a Business Control Officer, you should have experience of the following:

• Managing UK legal entity governance including running of the entity ExCo meetings and following up on agreed actions. Contributing to quarterly entity Board agenda, preparing relevant updates and co-ordinating responses to ad-hoc requests.
• Identification and remediation of key legal entity risks (e.g. remote booking, trading system controls, entity strategy, financial performance etc.).
• Awareness and understanding of legal entity and business controls.
• Special projects including legal entity deep dives, business migrations and regulatory requests.
• Liquid Financing business controls coverage including issue investigation, reporting and managing remediation.

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Business management / controls experience in a Markets business with a focus on governance.
• Experience in legal entity management (governance, controls, reporting, migrations).
• Knowledge of Prime Financing and Equities businesses.
• Confident to work with senior stakeholders, product and functional partners on a broad range of topics.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role will be based in London.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• 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.

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.

To be successful in the role of a Business Control Officer, you should have experience of the following:

• Managing UK legal entity governance including running of the entity ExCo meetings and following up on agreed actions. Contributing to quarterly entity Board agenda, preparing relevant updates and co-ordinating responses to ad-hoc requests.
• Identification and remediation of key legal entity risks (e.g. remote booking, trading system controls, entity strategy, financial performance etc.).
• Awareness and understanding of legal entity and business controls.
• Special projects including legal entity deep dives, business migrations and regulatory requests.
• Liquid Financing business controls coverage including issue investigation, reporting and managing remediation