AVP | Chief of Staff Office

Purpose of the role

To enable the success of senior executives by helping navigate complex challenges, make informed decisions and deliver against their strategic objectives.

Accountabilities

• Strategic support to senior executives, such as the CEO or other top-level leaders including assistance in the development and execution of in year and multi-year business strategy, research, and analysis to support decision-making and act as delegate for the senior executive in specific situations.
• Management of Colleague engagement planning in line with the strategic direction, managing communication channels and ensuring effective coordination across different departments and teams.
• Management of key projects and strategic initiatives on behalf of senior executives, ensuring strategic projects are on track, monitoring of progress, and provision of regular updates to the executive team.
• Improvement of operational efficiency, alongside functional partners, within the organisation including the identification of areas for improvement, streamlining of processes, and implementation of consistently excellent best practices to enhance productivity and effectiveness.
• Development of performance reporting for key metrics that reinforce the strategic objectives of the division and support the external commitments made. Analyse and draw insight to drive performance. Involvement in aspects of financial analysis and budget management, including assistance in financial planning, forecasting, cost management and monitoring of financial performance against targets.
• Support to senior leadership to ensure appropriate resourcing across the business/function including planning and forecasting, partnering with HR to drive talent development and succession planning including the identification of high-potential employees, provision of mentorship and guidance, and support to leadership development and diversity initiatives.
• Support to the senior executive with risk and control oversight, escalation, crisis management and risk mitigation, support the development of contingency plans, coordination of responses to emergencies, and ensure business continuity.
• Implementation of a robust governance framework which supports the board of directors, executive forums and governance committees through the preparation of board materials, organisation of meetings, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. 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. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

What will you be doing?

• Execute key responsibilities and tasks for Global Head of Corporate & Investment Banking & President of Barclays Bank PLC and the Chief of Staff of IB, BBPLC and CIB, in addition to supporting the Americas executive leadership team and broader senior management team across the Barclays Group.
• Own the regulatory driven Related Party Transactions (RPT) program across various Barclays business units in the Americas and globally.
• Own the Senior Managers Regime (SMR) framework across Barclays US businesses. Covering all CIB wide governance, risk and issue management for SMR.
• Own all recertifications (OneCert platform) on behalf of President - reviewer and approver for quarterly campaigns for application recertification for top US and global bankers.
• Manage accountable enterprise risk management under the governance pillar. These include the Risk and Control Risk Self-Assessment (RCSA), Operational Continuity in Resolution (OCiR), Operational Recovery Planning, Data Domain mapping and End User Development Application (EUDA) mapping.
• Own the report for the Corporate and Investment Banking Client Satisfaction on behalf of President. Prepare for the Group Executive Committee meetings hosted by Group CEO.
• Build out organization of and run CIB Management bi-weekly leadership meetings logistics, as well as BBPLC Executive Committee meetings, Critics Working Groups and Globally based CIB Management Team Leadership Offsites.
• Assist wider stakeholders from US – namely work solely for Chairman of the Group Chairmen Committee on annual performance reviews for the group of eleven of Barclays top bankers in US and globally.

Compensation

Salary / Rate Minimum/yr: $150,000 per year

Salary / Rate Maximum/yr: $185,000 per year