Security Risk & Control Manager in Knutsford

Join Barclays as a Security Risk & Control Manager within Digital Channels, supporting critical cyber deliveries including the CEP program. This role is responsible for ensuring Digital Channels remains within cyber tolerances across all cyber standards and KRIs, working in close partnership with the CISO team to translate strategic cyber objectives into actionable outcomes for engineering teams. You will drive oversight of the vulnerability landscape, proactively managing cyber risk and control activities, supporting security events and breaches, and ensuring strong vulnerability management practices are in place.

Acting as a key bridge between CISO and Digital, you will interpret complex security data and requirements, prioritise and route work to the appropriate engineering teams, and enable effective delivery of strategic initiatives. To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Demonstrated leadership and accountability in managing cyber risk, with a strong focus on strengthening cyber controls within a digital technology environment.
• Adherence to cyber risk policies, standards, and frameworks, maintaining a robust cyber control environment through effective risk assessment, governance, and mitigation practices.
• Comprehensive understanding of operating within a digital technology environment, with a strong emphasis on cybersecurity.
• Knowledge of the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) cybersecurity framework.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Strong relationship management skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in developing strategic direction for cyber risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies, processes, and tools.
• Exposure to AI within the cybersecurity landscape; understanding of AI as an emerging threat vector is highly advantageous.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. The successful candidate will be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall).

Purpose of the role To support the Risk Function in delivering its objective of safeguarding the bank's financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.

Accountabilities

• Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
• Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and expedite breaches of policies/procedures. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.

If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.

Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.