Job Description

Purpose of the role

To gather, analyse, and present risk data in a clear and concise manner to stakeholders across the organisation, facilitating informed decision-making, risk mitigation, and regulatory compliance.

Accountabilities

• Development and maintenance of a variety of risk reports, including credit, market, operational, and liquidity risk reports, and regulatory reports.
• Extraction of risk data from various sources, including internal systems, risk models, and external market data feeds.
• Analysis of risk data to identify trends, patterns, and outliers, and assess the impact of risk exposures.
• Monitoring key risk indicators and metrics to identify emerging risks and track the effectiveness of risk mitigation strategies.
• Development and implementation of risk reporting improvements and automation initiatives.

Vice President Expectations

• 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.

Join us as an Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Lawyer at Barclays. The overall purpose of the role is to provide strategic legal advice and input on the development and implementation of the bank's Sustainability agenda, as well as day-to-day support to Barclays business' across the group on transactional and BAU queries, working closely with business coverage lawyers. The role will include supporting interactions between the S&ESG team and external stakeholders including shareholders, regulators, NGOs and industry peers.

To be successful in this role you will need to be an experienced Advisory Lawyer with significant legal experience gained in-house or in a challenging private practice environment. Subject matter expertise or significant interest and awareness in relation to the ESG agenda and have the ability to advise on new and evolving technical areas of law without established precedent. This role will be based in our Glasgow office.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as legal issues, legal practices, regulatory compliance and business acumen.