Job Description

Purpose of the role

To provide strategic advice and guidance on all aspects of regulatory engagement, while managing and coordinating the bank’s interactions with regulators, ensuring open and constructive regulatory relationships.

Accountabilities

• Central co-ordination point for all regulatory requests/ reviews/ examinations/ responses/ notifications and collaboration with relevant Accountable Executives to ensure timely and high quality delivery.
• Advising /briefing internal stakeholders for regulatory engagement, recording of all regulatory engagement and forwarding actions arising to relevant internal stakeholders.
• Provision of insightful and timely MI on regulatory engagement and priorities to internal stakeholders.
• Identification of emerging themes and issues and escalation to the appropriate stakeholders for resolution.
• Role model of Firm ambitions of Consistently Excellent are evidenced in all regulatory engagement.
• Information sharing across regions to ensure that the Firm is optimising global regulatory profile.
• Monitoring and evaluation of regulatory relationships, ensuring timely advice, escalation and execution where remedial action is required.

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, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will 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 in order 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.

In this role, you will work within the Barclays Europe Regulatory Relations team, reporting to the Head of Government and Regulatory Policy and Relations, Europe within Paris. You will support the core Businesses and Functions to effectively deliver a programme of work for EU regulators and manage senior-level relationships with those regulators. As Barclays Bank Ireland plc is a Significant Institution under the comprehensive supervision of the European Central Bank, the Central Bank of Ireland, ACPR and AMF in France, you will ensure that regulators have access to the necessary people and information to discharge their supervisory responsibilities. You will develop and communicate insights on Barclays’ regulatory relationships and specific issues, as well as broader industry-wide themes. Utilising client relationship management technology, you will record and facilitate the reporting of regulatory engagement, issues, and commitments. Acting as a trusted adviser to business and Functions on regulatory and supervisory developments, you will execute regulator exam management, including oversight and coordination of logistics, attendees, presentation content, meeting preparations, and follow-ups. You will liaise with regulators to confirm exam timelines and agendas, coordinate requirements, and update regulators and stakeholders on recent developments.

You will autonomously coordinate and draft internal communications and briefs for regulator meetings, attend meetings with regulators, draft meeting notes, and ensure the completion of any follow-up actions. By developing and maintaining close working relationships with internal stakeholders, you will assist in the production of MI and other internal reporting, provide consistent best practices, identify areas for process improvement, and take ownership of assigned tasks from start to finish.

To be successful as a Vice President Regulatory Relations, you should

• Ideally have previous experience in regulatory relations gained either in a financial institution and/or a European regulatory authority or exposure to regulatory implementation or interpretation
• Demonstrate an interest in and awareness of regulation, politics, and finance
• Be qualified to degree level/professionally qualified in a relevant discipline
• Have excellent planning and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task, quickly respond to requests, and work at a high pace while maintaining accuracy
• Have experience working in a blue-chip financial services organization
• Fluent in English and in the relevant local language for the region of work, ensuring clear and effective communication with stakeholders

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

This role is a fixed term contract which is due to end in February 2027.

The role is located in our Paris office.

Minimum: €75,000

The minimum salary information above includes only annual full-time equivalent base salary and typically represents the lowest level of pay for this role. The actual pay rate will reflect the responsibility level of the role and experience level of the individual. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are also eligible for a suite of competitive country-specific benefits.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.