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About the Role

Support the ongoing independent assessment of the Merchant Acquiring Financial Crime Control Framework, identifying control weaknesses and opportunities for enhancement. Deliver reviews and testing activities under the Financial Crime Monitoring Plan, assessing the design and effectiveness of key Financial Crime controls. Review and assess control performance, providing challenge and recommendations to strengthen the Financial Crime control environment. Support Financial Crime issue and event management activities, including remediation tracking, validation of actions and review of supporting evidence. Assist with the analysis of Financial Crime metrics, incidents, monitoring outcomes and management information to identify trends, emerging risks and potential control weaknesses. Assist with the preparation of high-quality oversight reports, review findings, management information and governance papers for senior stakeholders and governance forums. Support audit, regulatory and remediation activities through effective oversight, challenge and monitoring of agreed actions. Build effective relationships across the business, Risk, Compliance and operational teams to promote a strong and sustainable Financial Crime control environment.

Responsibilities

Development and refresh of the Compliance Assurance Annual Plan, ensuring focus on areas of highest risk and value.
Delivery of risk-based assurance activity to validate control and process effectiveness.
Identification of potential risks associated with non-compliance or control weaknesses.
Verbal and written communication of Compliance Assurance reports and issues.
Build, development and maintenance of effective relationships between Compliance Assurance and stakeholders.
Proactive adoption of Data Analytics capabilities to increase efficiency and effectiveness of Assurance work.
Continued focus on the Barclays Mindset and Consistently Excellent.
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.
Set objectives and coach employees, appraise performance and determine reward outcomes.
Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive.
Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments.
Identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects.
Consult on complex issues, providing advice to People Leaders.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls.
Perform work closely related to other areas, requiring understanding of coordination.
Collaborate with other areas of work for business aligned support.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively.
Communicate complex information.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Demonstrate Barclays Values and Barclays Mindset.
Strengthen Financial Crime oversight within one of the UK's leading Merchant Acquiring businesses.
Support the independent oversight and assessment of the Merchant Acquiring Financial Crime Control Framework.
Provide challenge, oversight and insight into the effectiveness of Financial Crime controls.
Play a key role in the delivery of the Financial Crime Monitoring Plan.
Conduct thematic reviews, control effectiveness assessments and Quality Assurance activities.
Identify emerging risks, monitor remediation activity and support the continuous enhancement of the Financial Crime control environment.
Support the ongoing independent assessment of the Merchant Acquiring Financial Crime Control Framework, identifying control weaknesses and opportunities for enhancement.
Deliver reviews and testing activities under the Financial Crime Monitoring Plan, assessing the design and effectiveness of key Financial Crime controls.
Review and assess control performance, providing challenge and recommendations to strengthen the Financial Crime control environment.
Supporting Financial Crime issue and event management activities, including remediation tracking, validation of actions and review of supporting evidence.
Assisting with the analysis of Financial Crime metrics, incidents, monitoring outcomes and management information to identify trends, emerging risks and potential control weaknesses.
Assisting with the preparation of high-quality oversight reports, review findings, management information and governance papers for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
Supporting audit, regulatory and remediation activities through effective oversight, challenge and monitoring of agreed actions.
Building effective relationships across the business, Risk, Compliance and operational teams to promote a strong and sustainable Financial Crime control environment.

Requirements

Experience within Financial Crime, Compliance, Risk or a related control function within banking, payments or financial services.
Merchant Acquiring experience preferred, including a strong understanding of merchant onboarding, customer due diligence, card acquiring and associated Financial Crime risks.
Strong knowledge of AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and wider Financial Crime regulatory requirements.
Experience operating within a Second Line Financial Crime, Compliance, Oversight or Assurance function.
Experience conducting monitoring reviews, quality assurance activities, control testing, assurance reviews or thematic assessments.
Strong understanding of KYC, Customer Due Diligence, Enhanced Due Diligence and ongoing monitoring requirements.
Excellent analytical skills with the ability to assess complex risks and identify meaningful insights.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing governance and management reporting.
Proven ability to build effective stakeholder relationships and provide constructive challenge.
Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality outputs within a fast-paced and evolving environment.
Experience supporting Financial Crime monitoring, oversight, assurance or control effectiveness programmes.
Knowledge of card scheme requirements, payment facilitator models, marketplaces and higher-risk merchant sectors.
Experience supporting regulatory reviews, internal audit activity or remediation programmes.
Use of Data Analytics tools and techniques.

Skills

Data Analytics
Financial Crime
Merchant Acquiring
Customer Onboarding
KYC
Due Diligence
Payment Facilitators
Marketplaces
High-Risk Merchant Sectors
Transaction Flows
Sanctions Exposure
Fraud Typologies
Regulatory Expectations
AML
Sanctions
Anti-Bribery & Corruption
Enhanced Due Diligence
Ongoing Monitoring
Risk Management
Control Testing
Quality Assurance
Thematic Reviews
Stakeholder Engagement
Reporting
Relationship Building
Challenge
Oversight
Monitoring
Assurance
ICA
ACAMS

Location

London
Northampton

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Assistant Vice President
Experienced professional

Education Level

Professional qualifications such as ICA, ACAMS or equivalent

About the Company

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.
In April 2025, we announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients.
Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve-outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long-term growth.
Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years.
Performance-linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long-term commitment to the transformation.
Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years.
For more information on our partnership with Brookfield (programme ‘Gaia’), please visit Barclays.com.