Cyber Security Standards & Oversight Manager

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Join Barclays as a Cyber Security Standards & Oversight Manager
, leading delivery of High Risk Assets, governance across cyber standards, and M&A integration. The role ensures compliance with Barclays standards and controls, manages issues, provides insights to senior forums, and oversees both standard and non-standard environments. Additional responsibilities include bi‑annual identification of critical assets, aligning acquired businesses to Barclays’ frameworks, and delivering board‑level reporting in a highly regulated environment.

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the bank’s internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the bank’s operational, financial, and reputational risk.

• A deep understanding of external cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, and MITRE, with the ability to demonstrate how these frameworks support measurement and maturity of our cybersecurity controls and overall security posture.
• Proven line management and collaborative leadership experience, with a strong track record of leading and developing high‑performing teams. You will excel in stakeholder engagement, building trusted relationships across internal teams, audit functions, and regulators to drive the adoption of security standards, governance, and continuous improvement practices.
• Strong communication and reporting capabilities, including proven experience in translating complex framework and control performance into clear, actionable insights for senior management, the board, regulators, and risk and audit functions, enabling informed decision‑making and driving the effective adoption of controls.

• Strong understanding of cyber threats and security principles, including IT risk management, control environments, and governance structures, with the ability to articulate how controls mitigate risk and support regulatory compliance.
• Experience in cyber risk assessment, including identifying vulnerabilities and defining appropriate remediation actions to reduce exposure and strengthen security posture.
• Working knowledge of effective end‑to‑end security management, particularly the application and lifecycle management of controls for high‑risk assets, as well as within mergers and acquisitions (M&A) environments.

Knutsford (Radbroke Hall).

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes, and platforms to assess 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 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 setting appropriate methodology for assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

• 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, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. Lead specialists to influence the operations of a department in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short‑ and long‑term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet…