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• Please note this is a job posting for our 2024 Internship cohort, please do not apply to this position if you have not recently completed an Internship with Barclays. For those interested in our 2025 internship or graduate opportunities, those applications will be opening soon. If you're a recent graduate or soon-to-be graduate, join us and unlock a world of carefully curated experiences, knowledge, and connections to shape your career. Along the way, you can expect all the training and support you need to make your mark on the world. Put simply, we’ll empower you to help determine how we do things and where we go next. Our graduates are a vital part of our success, and we welcome applications from people from all walks of life. Whoever you are and wherever you want to join us, if you’re curious, creative, and ambitious, this is a world in which you can truly belong. 1-2 year targeted, fast-track program focused on developing specialist technical expertise. Why the Internal Audit Graduate program? At Barclays, our reputation means everything. Internal Audit assists the Board and Executive Management to protect the assets, reputation, and sustainability of Barclays. Barclays Internal Audit (BIA) aims to provide independent, reliable, valued, insightful and timely assurance to the Board and Executive Management over the effectiveness of governance, risk management and control over current and evolving risks, in the context of the current and expected business environment and in accordance with the International Standards definition of internal auditing. Sound like the place for you? Join us as an analyst to find out. The chance to make an impact You’ll start out with several weeks of intense training, covering product and business knowledge as well as essential skills you’ll need for a successful start with BIA. Then, you’ll begin the first of two 12-month rotations spending time with different audit teams covering a variety of business and functional areas. Along the way, you’ll build excellent foundational knowledge while getting to know our business and our people. You will be responsible for:
• Planning audits, including documenting the scope, process understanding, risk and control identification and testing strategies
• Completing audit fieldwork by testing key controls and drawing conclusions about their design and effectiveness
• Discussing and agreeing the factual accuracy of audit issues with the audit team
• Writing high quality issues and recording management’s action plans
• Testing to ensure corrective steps have been taken by auditees
• Keeping up-to-date with risks, issues and changes across relevant business units
• Challenging others, including auditees, where appropriate to make sure the right conclusion is reached
• Ensuring all work is carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements and Barclays’ policies and procedures
• Contributing to risk assessment activity Internal Audit at Barclays Internal Audit is an independent control function that’s critical to our business right around the world. You'll join a team that provides independent, reliable, insightful, and timely assurance to the whole business about effective governance, risk management and how we can control current and evolving risks. We’ve built a reputation across financial services for our innovative thinking and approach — Barclays Internal Audit are market leaders in Data Analytics and other specialisms, frequently providing speakers at conferences and events. This is your chance to work with industry experts who will help you build your knowledge and support with your career. Our structured program will give you the skills you need to be a successful auditor but will also provide a strong foundation in Risk and Controls knowledge that will prove invaluable for any career in Financial Services. Start your career in the only place which can provide you with a broad picture of the whole of the bank and how Barclays operates at a strategic level. To be considered for this program, you must: Be an undergraduate student with an anticipated graduation date between December 2024 – June 2025 and a GPA of 3.2 or above. Ideally, you would also have: An analytical mind, with the ability to build relationships, an eagerness to learn and willingness to take on new challenges, as well as an ability to manage your time and resources efficiently. Working in Wilmington The Wilmington campus boasts a recently renovated office space featuring a cafe, coffee bar, wellness breakout spaces, and more. The campus is located along the historic Wilmington Riverfront where a glance out our windows reveals a scenic look at the Christina River and a growing riverfront community of luxury apartments, shops, and restaurants. Additionally, the Wilmington train station is a short walk away, making travel from New York and Washington, DC fast and convenient. To be eligible, applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Barclays will not sponsor applicants for work visas or offer any employment-based immigration sponsorship for any internship, post-graduation program or permanent employment, including assistance with or execution of any documentation in support of optional practical training (OPT) or curricular practical training (CPT).

_It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law._ Purpose of the role To support the day-to-day operations of the internal audit division providing insights and expertise that help more senior colleagues make informed decisions, develop new products and services, and identify new market opportunities
Accountabilities

• Participation in the planning of audits, including documenting the scope, process understanding, risk and control identification and testing strategies.
• Completion of audit fieldwork by testing key controls and drawing conclusions about their design and effectiveness.
• Discussion and agreement relating to the factual accuracy of audit issues with the audit team.
• Writing of high quality issues and recording management’s action plans.
• Keeping up to date with risks, issues, and changes across relevant business units.
• Challenging others, including auditees, where appropriate to make sure the right conclusion is reached.
• Execution of all work in full compliance with regulatory requirements and Barclays’ policies and procedures. Recommend additional Accountability - Contributing to risk assessment activity. Analyst Expectations
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation. 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.