BUK and BBI ILAAP Lead Author VP

The role holder will be accountable for leading the ILAAP for BBUK and BBI, ensuring a high quality, usable document for the Board and regulators. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate sound stakeholder management skills to support approval of the ILAAP, through all governance committees, including the Board Risk Committee and drive consistent excellence in the ILAAP processes.

Wider role responsibilities will involve supporting all aspects of regulatory engagement, including Liquidity Supervisory Reviews (LSREP), as well as contributing to specific Pillar 2A capital risk assessments and wider ICAAP deliverables and facilitating the embedment of the ICAAP and ILAAP into the firm's decision-making processes.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Experience with any of the following: funding, liquidity or capital management
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Regulatory engagement and communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to prioritise tasks and manage conflicting deadlines.
• Strategic thinking with the ability to drive execution.
• Strong planning and organisational skills.
• Ability to balance multiple critical requests with precision.
• Good understanding of adjacent functions and the wider Group including the Group's governance structures.
• Good commercial acumen and awareness.
• Resilient self-starter.
• Collaborative and able to work well at all levels of seniority.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• High level of experience in presenting to senior management committees, Board members and regulators.

Purpose of the role:

To verify that the bank has sufficient funds to meet its short-term and long-term obligations, and develop and implement strategies to manage the bank's liquidity position.

Accountabilities:

• Development and implementation of funding and liquidity strategies to efficiently manage the bank's liquidity position within regulatory requirements and risk appetite at favourable commercial outcomes with respect to funding costs.
• Analysis and quantification of the regulatory and behavioural liquidity risk impact of transactions undertaken by business units.
• Maintenance of strong relationships with key business units and working with the business units to manage liquidity within constraints.
• Monitoring of key liquidity metrics and trends and advising on actions to maintain funding and liquidity levels within tolerance.
• Managing intra-group funding arrangements to ensure subsidiaries are adequately funded and managed within balance sheet, large exposure and capital constraints.
• Design and implementation of stress testing methodologies to assess the bank's liquidity resilience under various financial shocks, economic downturns, and sector-specific crises, and analysis of stress testing results and development of mitigation strategies to address potential liquidity shortfalls.
• Development of new tools, models and data analysis to support and enhance the bank's funding and liquidity management capabilities.

Vice President Expectations:

• 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 escalate 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 a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, aligning with strategic and tactical priorities while balancing short and long-term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, 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.
• As an individual contributor, be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.