Operational Readiness, AVP

Deliver Meaningful Change Across Our Operations – Bring your knowledge to help us deliver smarter, simpler, and more resilient ways of working. Join Barclays Operational Readiness and Transformation team as an Operational Readiness, AVP. where you will play a central role in overseeing and delivering change projects that keep our organization moving forward. In your role,, you'll help us ensure projects are completed on schedule, within scope and budget, and to the highest quality standards. You will support strategic Operational Readiness and Transformation work across US Corporate Bank Operations, driving continuous improvement by assessing current processes, shaping future state operating models, and ensuring that change is effectively embedded across the organization. To succeed, you should bring considerable banking operations experience—from day to day functional processing and risk mitigation to compliance and issue management—along with a documented ability to manage multiple projects at once. Your focus on simplification, automation, and operational excellence will help us deliver meaningful, lasting impact for our colleagues and customers.

To be successful in your role as Operational Readiness, AVP, you should have:

• Overseeing internal change programs driving on time execution while maintaining scope and quality control

• Demonstrated experience working with Fintech companies, including understanding their unique needs as a client base to drive innovative solutions and strengthen strategic partnerships

• Confirmed proficiency in real-time or faster payment methods, showcasing knowledge of industry trends and direct experience implementing advanced payment solutions

Other highly valued skills include:

• ACH accreditation (or equivalent experience) to overseeing and driving projects and ensure sound operational practices and compliance with NACHA rules

• Overseeing support processes for legal/contractual agreements or similar documentation and workflows (e.g., DACA; Deposit Account Control Agreements)

• Operations, Technology, or other COO area experience

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

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.

Minimum Salary: $70,000.00

Maximum Salary: $135,000.00

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures. 

Accountabilities

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.

USD 70000 to 135000