Join as an Executive Assistant - Barclays Internal Audit , providing high-impact, trusted support to the department, including the Chief Internal Auditor and the Chief Operating Office. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure the effective management of priorities, including day-to-day operations, scheduling, and the production of meeting materials, enabling the department to operate at maximum effectiveness. You will proactively anticipate needs, manage calendars, and serve as a key point of contact for senior stakeholders across the Audit function. Managing competing priorities with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment is central to success in this role. You will work closely with the Americas Chief of Staff, departmental colleagues, and other Barclays Executive Assistants to deliver seamless, coordinated support. This includes providing coverage and contributing to a broad range of priorities and deliverables to ensure continuity, consistency, and effective execution across the function. The role requires flexibility in working patterns, including time in the office, to align with senior management schedules, office events, meetings requiring support, and evolving business needs.

To be successful as an Executive Assistant - Barclays Internal Audit , you should have:

• Experience supporting C-suite or ExCo-level executives within a corporate environment or similarly complex organization, with strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio)

• Ability to operate effectively under tight deadlines, manage multiple priorities while maintaining strict confidentiality, and remain flexible in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities

• Attention to detail

• A proactive, collaborative approach, combined with strong personal accountability and the ability to work independently

• Clear, professional communication skills, with experience handling executive-level correspondence while exercising sound judgment and discretion

• Partnership skills, including experience working alongside team members to deliver coordinated global support

• Flexibility and resilience to adapt working hours and office presence to align with executive schedules and evolving business needs

• Experience with global coordination, including complex travel arrangements and multi-time-zone scheduling

Highly valued skills:

• Experience using tools such as Concur, Coupa, Workday, and document management systems

• Experience using Microsoft Copilot or other AI productivity tools

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this 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 located in New York.

Salary minimum: $110,000

Salary maximum: $140,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the role

To provide administrative, analytical, and research support to the Internal Audit team, contributing to the overall effectiveness of the audit function.

Accountabilities

• Development and execution of operational practices to effectively manage internal audit functions.
• Guidance and support for internal audit functions, by providing technical support and assisting with audit administration, including planning, scheduling, and reporting.
• Development and execution of departmental training to support compliance with internal policies, including content development and training development sessions.
• Monitoring of compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.