Apac Compliance Assurance

**Date live**:
06/10/2025
**Business Area**:
Compliance
**Area of Expertise**:
Compliance
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000056277
Compliance is a broad, multidisciplinary function at Barclays that oversees our global business operations. We ensure the bank lives its values, meets regulatory requirements, and follows our codes of conduct. Compliance helps manage financial affairs safely, prevents crime, and eliminates bad practices, acting as guardians for customers, colleagues, assets, shareholders, and reputation. This vital, challenging, and rewarding role protects customers, defends our reputation, and defines our business practices. Without Compliance, Barclays could not operate.
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Join us at Barclays’ Compliance Assurance team, where you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with conduct risks while working with stakeholders across APAC and globally. Wide knowledge of Investment Banking, Private Banking and Corporate Banking business, preferably with a global Investment bank will be a plus.You should possess exceptional investigative skills with the capability to identify associated key risks and areas of non-conformance with regulatory and legislative requirements and lack of controls, identify root cases, themes and trends along with experience of discussing contentious observations with management and recommending necessary actions. You should demonstrate a track record of high performance and effective execution and ability to deliver high quality work in a timely and structured manner to succeed in this role.
You may be assessed on 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.
Purpose of the role
To provide assurance over the effectiveness of Compliance Risk Management across the bank.
Accountabilities
Development and refresh of the Compliance Assurance Annual Plan, ensuring that the Annual Plan focuses on areas of highest risk and value in relation to Compliance Risk.
Delivery of risk-based assurance activity to validate the effectiveness of controls and processes designed to mitigate Compliance Risk.
Identification of potential risks associated with non-compliance or control weaknesses in relation to Compliance Risk.
Verbal and written communication of Compliance Assurance reports and issues to enhance the effectiveness of Compliance Risk management and oversight.
Build, development and maintenance of effective relationships between Compliance Assurance and stakeholders across the three lines of defence.
Proactive adoption of Data Analytics capabilities to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and coverage of Assurance work.
Continued focus on the Barclays Mindset and Consistently Excellent to enhance the Assurance that we deliver, how it is delivered and the culture within the bank.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
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.
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