Assistant Vice President– UAT, IMCC, PCB IIT, UK RBB

Job description

About Barclays

　

Barclays is an international financial services provider engaged in personal banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth management with an extensive presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Barclays' purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way.

With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 140,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.

At Barclays, we recruit based on merit and are committed to promoting diversity throughout our organisation.

　

About UK RBB IIT, Ops & Tech

UK RBB- Information, Industrialisation and Transformation (IIT) - Ops & Tech - Enabling the transformation, creation and establishment of a UKRBB 'World Class' Information Management team to enable a more effective, efficient and collaborative approach to how we use information management to drive business impact for Barclays. This function will be responsible for the Risk and Compliance agenda of IIT & also the Subject Access Requests. UAT, IMCC, Data Management, TCV, Control Automation groups IIT.

　　


The overall purpose of this role: Responsible for the overall leadership and delivery of large projects / programmes requiring significant effort in business and technology processes and systems resulting in transformational change. Overall accountability and end-to-end delivery management for a set of related initiatives as defined by our business and portfolio framework.

Main Duties and Responsibilities　

·  Responsible for significant, Institute-wide projects, typically with large budgets and sizeable staff, focused on meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors stakeholders etc.; Spends majority of time on project management responsibilities.

·  Leads the design, testing, planning, and implementation of projects for systems that typically affect many users.

·  Lead the development and implementation of a broad, coordinated set of plans and programs to meet the goals and priorities of the department.

·  Cultivate contacts with vendor requirement planners or developers — to obtain information about future vendor developments in the functional area and to try to influence those developments in ways favorable to Barclays

·  Participate in outside professional activities to maintain knowledge on developments in the field. Establish liaisons with universities and other comparable vendor users to keep abreast of status of computing and communications activities at these institutions.

·  Continuously improve project management toolkits and methodologies used within Barclays. Provide expertise and consulting to project managers/test Managers in the process of project management and in the softer skills of team dynamics, team building and group motivation

·  Risk and Control Objective: Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

　

Requirements for IJP for the position of Assistant Vice President– UAT, IMCC, PCB IIT　

• Deep knowledge of principles, practices and theories in own professional discipline. May have knowledge of more than one professional discipline. Outstanding record of project management success, both in results achieved and in use of professional methodology.

• Pro-active in developing and implementing strategies that significantly mitigate risk.

• Designs solutions for varied internal/external clients.

• Considered a resource for others

• Strong and current awareness of external trends and best practices.

• Thorough understanding of both theoretical and practical aspects of own professional discipline.

• Thorough understanding of project management phases, techniques and tools

• Strong and tested project management skills, including sponsor and risk management.

• Understanding of IT missions and operations in other areas of Barclays.

Barclays Values and Diversity

　

Our common purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way. We'll measure and reward our people, not just on commercial results, but on how they live our Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship and bring them to life every day. To find out more about working at Barclays and the development opportunities we offer please visit our website www.barclays.com

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