Assistant Vice President - Legal Ops

Step into the role of Assistant Vice President - Legal Operations at Barclays, where you'll provide first-class support by conducting in-depth due diligence, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and safeguarding our clients and organization with expertise and care.

You will lead and coordinate the execution, streamlining, and automation of operational and process-oriented tasks within the Legal Operations team. You will drive process improvement, manage stakeholder relationships, and enable Legal professionals to focus on high-value activities by centralizing and optimizing routine tasks.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role such as :

• Lead the process of obtaining and validating approvals across stakeholders during document negotiation stages, leveraging orchestration tools and AI solutions.
• Oversee coordination of approval processes for various agreement types, ensuring efficiency and compliance.
• Supervise system updates for mergers, ensuring accurate reflection of surviving entities.
• Manage the setup of non-JB Arms AM / AH in relevant systems, optimizing workflows with orchestration tools.
• Oversee post-execution data capture for ISDA and local law equivalents, ensuring data integrity and quality control for downstream Treasury tracking.
• Support Legal Onboarding milestones, including product reviews, regulatory validation, and exception tracking for Jetbridge products.
• Lead data remediation activities (BAU and ad hoc), utilizing process enhancements, document repositories, and AI.
• Oversee bail-in and stay remediation, contributing to CCLT controls redesign and document repository management.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement orchestration tools, process enhancements, and AI solutions to automate and consolidate tasks.
• Collaborate with technology teams to enhance systems and workflows for improved efficiency and accuracy.
• Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop high-performing teams in a dynamic environment.
• Experience in managing cross-functional teams and driving accountability for deliverables.
• Skilled in coaching, mentoring, and supporting professional growth.
• Strong relationship-building skills with internal and external stakeholders, including Legal, Operations, Technology, and senior management.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly and influence decision-making at all levels.
• Expertise in process improvement, governance, and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize tasks, and deliver results under tight deadlines.
• Experience in leading change initiatives, including process redesign and technology adoption.
• Ability to coordinate change processes for data models and documentation standards.
• Commitment to maintaining high standards of data quality, compliance, and confidentiality.

Desirable Skills Sets

You may be assessed on 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 Pune.

Purpose of the role

To support business areas with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution.

Accountabilities

Assistant Vice President Expectations

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.

Skills Required

Data Management, Process Improvement