VP, NAPA and Product Review Full Time

Embark on a transformative journey as a VP, NAPA and Product Review at Barclays, where you’ll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You’ll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

Product Design and Review Risk is a Level 2 risk under the Compliance Principal Risk and forms part of the Compliance Risk Management Framework (CRMF). It relates to the risk of detriment to customers or clients, harm to market integrity, or inappropriate supply of products and services, including as a result of wilful or negligent misconduct.

The Product Review Team provides group‑wide oversight of Product Design and Review Risk for Products and Services, driving consistency in risk management activities and supporting the effective embedding of relevant Policies and Standards. The team operates as a horizontal second‑line capability across both in‑market / Traded Product Reviews and New, Amended or Withdrawn Product (NAPA) reviews.

Role Purpose

The Vice President role within NAPA and Product Review is a business‑critical senior position providing leadership, resilience, and continuity to the BUK Product Review portfolio, delivered from India.

To be successful in this role as a VP, NAPA and Product Review, you should possess the following skillsets:

You will be actively supporting the Director of Product Review in delivering activities, with specific focus on:

• Own the end‑to‑end delivery of mandatory Product Review activities (bi‑annual Health Checks and annual Detailed Reviews), applying strong technical and risk judgement to assess complex product and control risks and conclude on appropriate outcomes, including actions, monitoring, or escalation.
• Provide senior oversight, constructive challenge, and judgement across BUK Product Reviews and NAPA submissions, ensuring alignment with regulatory, risk, and governance expectations.
• Act as a senior escalation point for complex or high‑risk matters and represent Product Review at BUK, Risk, and Business governance forums.
• Drive delivery of NAPA and Product Review transformation outcomes, including NEOS‑related discussions and execution, translating strategic objectives into clear priorities and actions.
• Strengthen functional resilience, succession coverage, and India‑based ownership of the BUK Product Review portfolio, mitigating key‑person and knowledge concentration risk.
• Build and maintain effective senior stakeholder relationships across Risk, Business, and Functions, influencing outcomes and resolving issues.
• Provide leadership and direction to colleagues, embedding strong risk culture, accountability, and delivery discipline.

Key Skills Required For This Role (Basic/ Essential Qualifications)

• Good grounding in one or more of the following disciplines:
• Product Management and Governance
• Legal, Compliance, or Regulation
• Operations, Technology, and/or Operational Risk
• Finance and/or Treasury / Treasury Risk
• Working knowledge of banking control frameworks, preferably within Product Governance or Product Risk.
• Good understanding of banking product types across retail and/or wholesale banking.
• Demonstrates strong stakeholder management, with the ability to challenge constructively and influence outcomes.
• Proactive and self‑directed, with the ability to operate independently while collaborating effectively across teams.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills Include

• Practical experience of Operational Risk and Conduct Risk frameworks and regulations, gained within a leading bank, financial services organisation, or consultancy.
• Knowledge of Product Design & Review (PD&R) Policies and Standards, and how PD&R aligns with the wider Operational Risk Framework (e.g. RCSA).
• Exposure to Barclays NAPA and Product Review processes, including governance and review lifecycle activities.
• Experience of operating within a Risk and Controls environment, with a strong appreciation of control effectiveness and assurance.
• Working knowledge of Python, Power Automate, Tableau, Appian, or similar workflow and case‑management technologies, with the ability to leverage these tools to support process efficiency, reporting, and control transparency.

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 based in our Noida office.

Purpose of the role

To deliver data-driven oversight and constructive challenge on NAPA submissions raised by the Business, ensuring full alignment with Barclays’ functional, regulatory, and compliance standards. Evaluate the integrity and effectiveness of the bank’s internal control framework to proactively mitigate operational, financial, and reputational risks. Strengthen the Risk Function’s role in safeguarding the bank’s resilience by assessing control adequacy and identifying gaps. Lead governance across product design and review processes to uphold robust risk management discipline and control adherence. Champion a culture of accountability and transparency through rigorous oversight, enabling informed decision-making and sustainable risk mitigation.

Accountabilities

• Risk Assessment Expertise: Leverage deep knowledge of business areas, products, processes, and platforms to assess and manage risk effectively.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders across the bank to enhance control effectiveness through thorough documentation of assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Team Leadership & Oversight: Actively manage the team to deliver key activities, including technical reviews, stakeholder challenge, and quality assurance of NAPA/Product Review proposals.
• Due Diligence Review: Conduct rigorous reviews of due diligence performed by Functions, ensuring actions and conditions are addressed before proposal approval.
• Cross-Functional Engagement: Collaborate with BU NAPA teams, Employee Engagement, and NAPA Services Conformance to embed continuous improvement and maintain review continuity.
• Control Framework Evaluation: Execute reviews to assess the effectiveness of internal controls aligned with policies, regulations, and best practices.
• Governance & Delivery Oversight: Provide governance for managed, consumed, and BAU projects, translating requirements, removing blockers, and managing delivery risks.
• Data Quality Controls: Develop and implement procedures to ensure data quality and integrity across reporting and analytics.
• Strategic Risk Monitoring: Monitor and evaluate strategy effectiveness, investigate risk events, and oversee corrective and preventive actions.
• Regulatory Compliance & Integration: Implement policies aligned with regulatory and international standards, collaborating with 1LOD, Compliance, Legal, and Risk teams for holistic risk management.

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.