Director Cco

Job Title:
Director - APAC Technology CCO Lead

Corporate Grade:
D

Reports to (Line Manager’s Job Title):
BX Chief Controls Officer BBPLX & Cloud

Direct Reports (if applicable):
5

Business Area:
COO

Department/Function Level 1:
COO & Functions

Department/Function Level 2:
Chief Control Office

Primary Location:
Singapore

IAR Role

No

Regulated Role

No

**About Barclays**

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

**We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.**

**Working Flexibly**

Hybrid Working

**BUK &**

**BX (COO and Functions) - All locations**

About Chief Controls Office

The Chief Controls Office (CCO) is a function within the Chief Operating Office (COO) that operates across the bank (Barclays UK (BUK), Barclays Bank Plc (BBPLC) and Barclays Execution (BX) Services) to strengthen the control environment by driving consistent, excellent performance against the Control agenda. The team is an integral part of Barclays’ increasing emphasis on sustaining and strengthening an effective control framework, to meet our business needs, meet regulatory requirements and also to deliver upon our core values and commitments to all of our customers, clients and shareholders.

The purpose of the Chief Controls Office is to improve the Control Environment. We do this by defining and executing strong controls processes and offering effective control management tools and reporting. Control Business Partners directly partner with key stakeholders in the business as well as other BX services to provide an expert advisory service on a range of control related matters that support the assessment and management of risk across the businesses.

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About Barclays Execution (BX) Services Chief Control Office

This includes Barclays Operations & Technology, Legal, HR and the Chief Data Office.

Overall Purpose of Role

As a Barclays Control Business Partner you will be the first line of defence responsible for ensuring effective governance is maintained across key customer processes and underpinning controls, to strengthen the control environment. The primary focus will be on maintaining regulatory compliance across the Technology and Chief Security Office (cyber and resilience) domains across APAC. In conjunction the role holder will be expected to work collaboratively across the leadership team acting in a Controls Advisory position to the business.
- The role aligns to the Chief Control Office partnering Barclays Execution Service, and the role holder will partner senior executives across Technology and the Chief Security Office across APAC
- The role holder will be responsible for supporting APAC regional CIOs (Chief Information Officers) in maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements pertaining to both Technology and Cyber.
- This will include ensuring Barclays Policy and Standards meet regulatory requirements, both now and on an ongoing basis through Horizon Scanning.
- Maintaining a list of regulatory requirements, managing regulatory submissions, interfacing with the regulators and supporting CIOs with any regulatory exams.
- The role holder will also be responsible for providing controls advisory to the APAC regional CIOs and CISO's in respect to the Barclays Enterprise Risk Management Framework and its related policy and standards regarding Barclays Control Framework, Technology standards and regulatory commitments.

Technology, Chief Security Office, Global CCO partners, Operational Risk, Internal Audit, External Audit and Regulators.
- The role will also lead the analysis of emerging technology and outsourcing risk areas like cloud computing in order to align Barclays polices, standards and controls to address new requirements

Key Accountabilities
- Understand the regulatory compliance requirements and support the regional CIOs / CISO's in complying with those requirements by:

- Maintaining a registry of regulatory requirements across the APAC business units that need to be complied with in alignment to the Barclays control framework.
- Horizon scanning for emerging external risk factors in anticipation regulatory changes, in order to develop programs for strengthening the internal control environment in a proactive manner.
- Collating, reviewing and submitting periodic and ad-hoc regulatory submissions.
- Conduct periodic risk assessments for specific regional or country technology / CSO environments
- Assisting the business in the design and embedment of local country specific controls to maintain compliance to Barclays Sta