Controls Business Partner

Best Egg, now part of Barclays, is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through innovative lending solutions and financial health tools. As a Barclays company, we combine the agility and customer focus of a fintech with the global reach, stability, and purpose of a leading financial institution—working together to create a better financial future for our customers and communities.

At Best Egg, you’ll find a culture grounded in our core values—putting people first, creating clarity, delivering with excellence —enhanced by Barclays’ commitment to integrity, inclusion, and long-term impact. Together, we empower our colleagues to challenge, innovate, and take ownership while making a meaningful difference in people’s financial lives.

With the strength of Barclays behind us, we offer expanded opportunities for growth, development, and career mobility across a global organization—while continuing to build the products and experiences that make Best Egg unique.

We’re looking for collaborative, curious problem-solvers who are excited to make an impact and grow with us.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

The job:
To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the Bank’s internal control framework in supporting Best Egg’s Consumer Loan business, with a focus on either Operations or Capital Markets, Finance, and Accounting, to support the mitigation of operational, financial, and reputational risks and the protection of the Bank and its stakeholders.

• Knowledge of business areas (Operations or Capital Markets, Finance, and Accounting), Best Egg products, processes, and platforms to be able to assess risk
• Support integration of Best Egg’s Consumer Loan business into Barclays’ risk and control environment by assessing current-state processes, risks, controls, governance, and reporting against Barclays requirements and identifying actions required to achieve the target state.
• Facilitate end-to-end process and control mapping with business and functional subject matter experts, documenting key process activities, risks, controls, ownership, systems, evidence, dependencies, and governance to establish a complete and sustainable control environment.
• Perform current-state and gap assessments to identify differences between existing Best Egg practices and Barclays policies, standards, frameworks, and control requirements, document gaps, and support development of appropriate remediation plans.
• Partner with business process and control owners to identify key risks, define and document appropriately designed controls, establish control ownership, and ensure controls are supported by clear procedures, evidence, and governance.
• Identify control gaps and deficiencies and partner with accountable stakeholders to develop practical remediation plans, establish milestones, monitor progress, and provide effective challenge through closure.
• 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 set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Perform complex tasks and issues using well-developed professional knowledge, judgment, and skills to deliver high-quality work that impacts the broader business function. Independently establish priorities and objectives, provide subject matter expertise and guidance to key stakeholders, and influence outcomes through collaboration, effective challenge, and sound decision-making.
• Independently execute complex, collaborative assignments, engaging appropriate areas of…