Director, BE Regulatory Relations

Purpose of the role

To provide strategic advice and guidance on all aspects of regulatory engagement, while managing and coordinating the bank's interactions with regulators, ensuring open and constructive regulatory relationships.

Accountabilities

• Central co-ordination point for all regulatory requests/ reviews/ examinations/ responses/ notifications and collaboration with relevant Accountable Executives to ensure timely and high quality delivery.
• Advising /briefing internal stakeholders for regulatory engagement, recording of all regulatory engagement and forwarding actions arising to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Provision of insightful and timely MI on regulatory engagement and priorities to internal stakeholders.
• Identification of emerging themes and issues and escalation to the appropriate stakeholders for resolution.
• Role model of Firm ambitions of Consistently Excellent are evidenced in all regulatory engagement.
• Information sharing across regions to ensure that the Firm is optimising global regulatory profile.
• Monitoring and evaluation of regulatory relationships, ensuring timely advice, escalation and execution where remedial action is required.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Broad experience working for/with financial services business and of the European financial services regulatory environment.
• Experience of dealing with regulators, possibly gained through working in a regulator or financial services areas of a professional services firm.
• Excellent communication skills - spoken and written and an ability to explain complex regulatory issues and topics at a non-technical level.
• High levels of initiative, an ability to anticipate and solve problems and work effectively within a matrix environment.
• An ability to monitor and evaluate regulatory relationships, ensuring timely advice, escalation, and execution where remedial action is required.
• Strong coordination and organisation skills and ability to multi-task and turnaround requests quickly under pressure.
• Excellent team player who reflects the Barclays Mindset.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant experience, gained by working in a bank or through working in a regulator or financial services firm. 
• Someone who is highly motivated and wants to work in a successful team.
• An interest in and awareness in regulators and regulation more generally.
• Ability to prioritise conflicting work demands.

Knowledge and Expertise

• Technical understanding of financial regulation, with a focus on investment and commercial banking.
• Experience acting in an advisory capacity to senior leadership.
• Experience in internal and external stakeholder engagement, including building bridges where none previously existed and pushing back on boundaries when required.
• Experience with industry associations and forums in a regulatory/financial services context.
• Ability to manage priorities and expectations accordingly.
• Demonstrated business acumen.