Cyber Security Standards & Oversight Manager in Knutsford

hackajob is collaborating with BARCLAYS to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join Barclays as a Cyber Security Standards & Oversight Manager, leading delivery of High Risk Assets, governance across cyber standards, and M&A integration. The role ensures compliance with Barclays standards and controls, manages issues, provides insights to senior forums, and oversees both standard and non-standard environments. Additional responsibilities include bi‑annual identification of critical assets, aligning acquired businesses to Barclays’ frameworks, and delivering board‑level reporting in a highly regulated environment.

Purpose of the role To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the bank’s internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the bank’s operational, financial, and reputational risk.

Key Qualifications

• A deep understanding of external cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, and MITRE, with the ability to demonstrate how these frameworks support measurement and maturity of our cybersecurity controls and overall security posture.
• Proven line management and collaborative leadership experience, with a strong track record of leading and developing high‑performing teams.
• You will excel in stakeholder engagement, building trusted relationships across internal teams, audit functions, and regulators to drive the adoption of security standards, governance, and continuous improvement practices.
• Strong communication and reporting capabilities, including proven experience in translating complex framework and control performance into clear, actionable insights for senior management, the board, regulators, and risk and audit functions, enabling informed decision‑making and driving the effective adoption of controls.

Other Highly Valued Skills

• Strong understanding of cyber threats and security principles, including IT risk management, control environments, and governance structures, with the ability to articulate how controls mitigate risk and support regulatory compliance.
• Experience in cyber risk assessment, including identifying vulnerabilities and defining appropriate remediation actions to reduce exposure and strengthen security posture.
• Working knowledge of effective end‑to‑end security management, particularly the application and lifecycle management of controls for high‑risk assets, as well as within mergers and acquisitions (M&A) environments.

Location Knutsford (Radbroke Hall).

Accountabilities

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes, and platforms to assess risk.
• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment, including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank’s internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and setting appropriate methodology for assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

Vice President Expectations

• 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 elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Lead specialists to influence the operations of a department in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short‑ and long‑term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards, following the four LEAD behaviours: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, act as a subject matter expert within your discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments, and guide team members through structured assignments.
• Identify the need to include other areas of specialisation to complete assignments, and coach less experienced specialists while providing information that affects long‑term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on impact and alignment across functions.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting 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 organisational functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives, and employ interpretative thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Values 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.