Senior Manager - Northern Audit Survey

About the role

Barclays is recruiting a Senior Manager for its Northern Audit Survey within Relationship Management, under the Trade & Working Capital business area. The role provides senior leadership and oversight of the audit and survey agenda, assessing risks in a client's receivables and other asset classes, maintaining the bank's security and supporting the sales and relationship management functions. It is a hybrid position open to Manchester, Leeds or London.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of audit and survey professionals, and manage workloads and resources so audits and surveys are delivered to the required quality standards.
• Oversee complex client audits, surveys and reviews, ensuring robust risk identification and effective client due diligence.
• Build stakeholder relationships across Sales, Relationship Management, Credit Risk and Operations.
• Maintain technical standards, professional accreditations and adherence to policies and governance requirements.
• Provide expert challenge and insight to support risk-based decision making and drive continuous improvement in audit and survey processes.
• Promote a strong control environment and assess client systems, credit control capabilities, contracts and sales terms, and prepare survey and audit findings.
• Manage customer information and enquiries, coordinate with sales, risk, legal and compliance, and carry out market research on risks and competitive intelligence.

Required profile

• Considerable invoice discounting and ABL experience, with a sound understanding of receivables finance products, client risk management, audit requirements and portfolio oversight.
• Proven people management experience, including coaching, performance management, resource planning, employee engagement and succession planning.
• Technical audit and survey expertise, including knowledge of methodologies, collateral controls and risk identification, and the ability to challenge findings and drive remedial action.
• Experience in a robust risk and control environment, with good stakeholder management and communication skills.