Control Business Partner

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Control Business Partner role at Barclays assessing internal controls and collaborating with stakeholders. Driving improvements for operational and reputational risk mitigation across business areas.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeManchester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational 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 its 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 set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong ability to influence at senior management level and apply judgement to balance risk versus business interest whilst ensuring compliance to all relevant policies and standards.
Strong understanding and knowledgeable on aspects of Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) and Operational Risk Framework (ORF).
Be able to supports the design and embedding of sustainable key controls as well as drive control simplification and optimisation.
Experience of working in or within a Control type role / team with the ability to demonstrate a risk management mindset.
Be efficient at partnering effectively across all 1st, 2nd and 3rd Lines of Defence assurance activity end-to-end.
Stakeholder management skills.
Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present credibly to senior stakeholders.
Strong Excel skills.
Strong ability to provide thought leadership through bringing together insight and analysis including external knowledge.
Extensive working knowledge of operational risk & control processes and practices, including experience in their application across functions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF)Operational Risk Framework (ORF)control assessmentsrisk assessmentcontrol weaknessesreport developmentcontrol simplificationcontrol optimisationExcel

Soft Skills

influence at senior management leveljudgementstakeholder managementeffective written communicationeffective oral communicationthought leadershipcollaborationrisk management mindset