Barclays India | Controls Assurance

Responsibilities

• Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Control Assurance Manager – AVP to provide independent insurance on control processes and advise on improvements to ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the bank’s internal controls framework.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for building and maintaining reliable, scalable, secure, and resilient integration platforms, while providing L2/L3 production support and driving automation, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• The role requires close collaboration with development, infrastructure, architecture, and operations teams to ensure high availability and operational excellence across API and integration services.
• Collaboration with other control professionals to resolve complex issues and ensure consistent testing methodologies across the bank.
• Leadership & Collaboration Comfortable providing technical guidance, code reviews, and architectural direction.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.

Requirements

• Communication of key findings and observations to the relevant stakeholders and business units to improve overall control efficiency and provide corrective actions to senior managers.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
• Experience driving a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Strong controls assurance, SOX, internal controls, external or internal audit experience.
• Experience delivering end-to-end control testing, including Test of Design (ToD), Operating Effectiveness (ToE), evidence review, issue identification, stakeholder engagement, and reporting.
• Experience assessing control deficiencies, including root cause analysis, mitigating controls, impact assessment, and issue classification.
• Ability to challenge stakeholders constructively and influence outcomes whilst maintaining effective working relationships.
• Experience communicating control weaknesses, agreeing remediation actions, and escalating risks where appropriate.
• Strong report writing, documentation, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, adapt to changing commitments, and proactively manage stakeholder expectations.
• Experience using governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) tooling and assurance management platforms (desirable).

Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank with consumer, corporate and investment banking businesses. Its history goes back to 1690 in London.

Barclays' Indian centres support the group's global operations, finance and technology. Finance professionals typically work in financial control, regulatory reporting, product control, tax and risk.

• Industry: Banking and financial services
• Headquarters: London, UK
• In India: Banking in India plus large Barclays service centres (including Pune, Chennai and Noida)