Head of IB COO Governance

Join us as a Head of IB COO Governance at Barclays, To provide operating and administrative support to senior leaders, simultaneously shaping and executing long-term strategic change, whilst helping to navigate complex challenges in the performance of their roles

To be successful as a Head of IB COO Governance, you should have:

• Extensive experience establishing and embedding governance, risk, and control frameworks within a regulated financial services environment, ensuring adherence to policy, standards, regulatory requirements, and effective organisational oversight.
• Proven ability to support executive leadership and governance forums through the delivery of high-quality management information, governance reporting, regulatory submissions, decision tracking, and cross-functional coordination to enable effective decision-making and accountability.
• Strong understanding of senior manager accountability and regulatory governance frameworks, including the Senior Managers Regime (SMR), with experience overseeing regulatory obligations, governance activities, and engagement across business, risk, compliance, and control functions.

• Experience operating in a Chief of Staff or Business Management capacity within Investment Banking, COO, Operations, or Technology organisations, supporting senior leadership through governance oversight, strategic execution, organisational effectiveness, and executive decision-making in a global financial services environment.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and govern commercial frameworks for external workforce and supplier engagement, ensuring effective demand management, sourcing discipline, spend optimisation, and delivery of cost and efficiency objectives.
• Track record of driving governance transformation through process simplification, reporting automation, data-led insights, and the adoption of technology and AI-enabled solutions to improve governance effectiveness, control outcomes, and decision-making.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Glasgow.

To provide operating and administrative support to senior leaders, simultaneously shaping and executing long-term strategic change, whilst helping to navigate complex challenges in the performance of their roles

• Implementation of Target Operating Model, business development, and financial and non-financial resource allocation, providing strategic insight and thought leadership.
• Strategic support to and oversight of demand pipeline and the book of work, including assistance in the development and execution of strategic initiatives, projects, research, and analysis to support decision-making.
• Support to and guidance for operational efficiency and colleague/customer/client experience within the organisation, including the identification of areas for improvement, streamlining of processes, and implementation of best practices to enhance productivity, effectiveness and experience.
• Management of of people plan, 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.
• Communication with internal and external stakeholders, management of communication channels and ensuring effective coordination across different departments and teams.
• Participation in compliance activities such as SMR and other regulatory registrations/certifications, as well as support for crisis management and risk mitigation, including the development of contingency plans, coordination of responses to emergencies, and business continuity.
• Management of all organisational/team requirements relating to technology, real estate, people and communications in conjunction with relevant partners across the firm.
• Enablement of oversight of risk management and compliance with internal and external requirements, including internal Governance on critical control activities in partnership with the CCO team, such as Records Inventory and RCSAs.
• Cost control and workforce management of the Business/Function, including involvement in financial analysis and planning, forecasting, and monitoring of financial performance against targets.

• To 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, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the…