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TD Newton
About the role
Role Purpose
The role will lead and oversee the end‑to‑end regulatory Authorisation, licensing, cross‑border governance, and oversight framework across various global regulatory jurisdictions. The role is responsible for ensuring the organization maintains a robust license‑to‑operate environment, adheres to global regulatory standards, and implements strong control frameworks within Barclays global legal entities.
The leader will represent as a key person in the governance forums, regulatory interactions, policy and standard refresh cycles, readiness assessments, and oversight of key risk and control activities.
Key Responsibilities
1. Regulatory Authorisations & Licensing Oversight
- Lead governance of all global licenses, permissions, waivers, exceptions, and registrations.
- Oversee the end‑to‑end lifecycle of authorisations including applications, renewals, variations of permission, cancellations, and regulatory submissions.
- Oversee and manage periodic license attestation and related stakeholder communication
- Ensure accurate global license mapping and data integrity across compliance tools.
- Direct regional workshops to identify gaps in licensing coverage and manage decomposition of new or unidentified permissions.
2. Cross-Border Governance & Controls
- Act as senior compliance lead for all cross‑border working groups (Reach-in, Fly-in/Fly-out, Operating Model Working Groups).
- Oversee alignment of cross‑border controls with program deliverables.
- Review risk assessments for complex cross‑border activity across global jurisdictions.
- Provide expert challenge on country-level regulatory requirements, restrictions, and governance.
3. Policy, Standard & Control Framework Leadership
- Lead annual policy and standard refresh cycles
- Drive end‑to‑end refresh of standards including documentation review, Glossary refresh, Process write-up, control testing, F2B validation, pen testing, and readiness assessments.
- Ensure all controls and RCSA question sets relating to licensing/cross‑border are accurate, updated, and embedded across business units.
4. Governance Forums & Senior Stakeholder Management
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Represent in key governance forums including:
- License-to-Operate Governance Group Forums
- Periodic Compliance SteerCo
- Cross Border IGF
- Weekly Controls Working Group
- Global Governance Forums
- Legal Entity Booking Model Governance Forums
- Present regulatory updates to global stakeholders and interface with regulators as required.
- Build strong partnerships with Legal, Controls functions, Frameworks team, Business Oversight Compliance, Finance, and Business management.
6. Data Stewardship & Critical Data Governance
- Oversee and manage migration and uplift of complex data sets as a part of automation and system enhancement
- Ensure governance over critical data elements including regulator lists, triggers, mapping, and inventories.
- Maintain SharePoint governance and knowledge repositories.
7. Team Leadership & Operating Model Implementation
- Oversee the implementation of TOM & RACI models across compliance and business units.
- Provide training, upskilling and guidance to compliance team members across regions.
- Manage distribution lists, group mailboxes, and build operational clarity across global teams.
- Support transition planning and knowledge transfer during team changes.
Key Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience in regulatory compliance, preferably in licensing, cross‑border governance, and Entity Authorisation.
- Deep understanding of global regulatory frameworks in financial service segment.
- Proven ability to lead large governance programs and multi-region regulatory initiatives.
- Strong analytical capability to interpret complex regulatory datasets.
- Exceptional stakeholder management with senior executives and regulators.
- Experience leading policy/standard refresh cycles and control framework implementation.
- Ability to manage high volumes of data with accuracy and strategic insight.
- Strong communication, influence, and leadership skills across matrixed organizations.
Qualifications
- Extensive professional experience in regulatory compliance at VP having exposure to global regulatory activities.
- Professional compliance or regulatory certification desirable.
- Bachelor’s degree in law, Finance, Business, Risk or related field (Master’s preferred).