At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a high-performing team to enhance risk management and operational efficiency.
- Company: Join a leading financial institution with a focus on innovation and teamwork.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career development opportunities, and a dynamic work environment.
- Other info: Opportunity to work with cutting-edge tools and drive industry best practices.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in governance and control while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Strong communication and analytical skills, with experience in risk management and process improvement.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
Account Governance Manager
The role is part of the Corporate Operations Governance team and focuses on strengthening risk management, governance, and control oversight across reconciliations and account substantiation processes. It involves reviewing, challenging, and reporting on the integrity, completeness, and effectiveness of reconciliations to mitigate financial misreporting risk, driving improvements and simplification of complex processes, acting as a subject‑matter expert, and leading a high‑performing team.
Responsibilities
- Support various business areas with day‑to‑day initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution.
- Collaborate with teams across the bank to align and integrate operational processes.
- Identify areas for improvement and provide recommendations in operational processes.
- Develop and implement operational procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
- Create reports and presentations on operational performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
- Identify industry trends and developments to implement best practice in banking operations.
- Participate in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Qualifications
- Proven people and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, lead, develop, and motivate high‑performing teams.
- Strong experience in risk management, governance, or control assurance, particularly within financial operations regarding corporate operations and reconciliation.
- Experience driving process improvement, including simplification, automation, or the use of AI to enhance efficiency.
- Solid understanding of reconciliation, substantiation, and financial control frameworks, including associated risks.
- Strong analytical capability, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, investigate anomalies, and resolve complex issues across teams.
Additional Preferred Skills
- Experience working with reconciliation and substantiation tools such as Intellimatch and INFoRM.
- Knowledge of Account Ownership & Reconciliation Standards and associated governance processes.
- Cross‑industry experience enforcing compliance to policies and standards.
- Relevant industry qualifications in financial reporting, reconciliations, or continuous improvement methodologies (e.g. Lean).
- An understanding of how the Account Governance team and processes fit into the end‑to‑end Account and Reconciliation framework.
Location
Glasgow
Purpose of the Role
To support business areas with day‑to‑day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, set objectives and coach employees, manage performance appraisal, and determine reward outcomes.
- Demonstrate the four LEAD behaviours: Listen, Energise, Align, and Develop.
- Guide team members through structured assignments, identify new directions for projects, and employ cross‑functional methodologies.
- Consult on complex issues, providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated problems.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Own risk management and strengthen controls in relation to the work performed.
- Collaborate with other areas to maintain alignment with business activity and strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information, including sensitive content, to appropriate audiences.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge and Drive.
