Job Description

Purpose of the role

To provide a primary liaison service between the business, technology, and security functions to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information, and support the mitigation of security risk.

Accountabilities

- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their security requirements in business processes and IT projects to enhance overall risk management.

- Execute risk assessments to identify and prioritize potential cybersecurity threats that could impact the bank's operations and data, guide the implementation of mitigation strategies, and communicate findings to relevant senior stakeholders.

- Work with business units to develop and implement security policies and procedures for the bank's operations aligned with the risk management framework.

- Manage the implementation, testing, and monitoring of security controls across the bank's IT systems to ensure the effectiveness of controls and risk mitigation.

- Execute training content and sessions to educate employees, enhance cybersecurity awareness, and provide guidance on safe online practices.

- Manage complex cybersecurity incidents by collaborating with IT teams and response experts to effectively resolve cases through analysis, expertise support, and project supervision.

- Identify emerging cybersecurity trends, threats, and new technologies to address potential risks by advocating the adoption of new security solutions.

Analyst Expectations

- Impact the work of related teams within the area.

- Partner with other functions and business areas.

- Take responsibility for end results of a team's operational processing and activities.

- Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.

- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.

- Advise and influence decision-making within own area of expertise.

- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to.

- Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.

- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organization's products, services, and processes within the function.

- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the organization's sub-function objectives.

- Make evaluative judgments based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.

- Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience, guided by precedents.

- Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.

- Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function while building a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organization.

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.