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About the Role
Support the Risk Function in delivering its objective of safeguarding the bank's financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities. Join us as a Delivery Lead responsible for delivering Business Banking's Economic Crime transformation agenda, leading complex change programmes across Technology and Operations to strengthen risk and controls in KYC, Sanctions, Transaction Monitoring and Fraud to lead the defence against key economic crime taxonomies. Working within a programme management structure, you will drive delivery through effective operating models, governance, and tools to reduce Financial Crime risk and achieve strategic outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Develop strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
- Manage the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
- Manage relationships with risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintaining the quality of external third-party services.
- Adhere to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintain a robust control environment.
- Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies.
- Manage and maintain policies/processes.
- Deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
- Define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
- Lead specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
- Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
- Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction.
- Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments.
- Identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
- Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists.
- Provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- Define problems and develop innovative solutions through in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
- Deliver Business Banking's Economic Crime transformation agenda.
- Lead complex change programmes across Technology and Operations to strengthen risk and controls in KYC, Sanctions, Transaction Monitoring and Fraud.
- Drive delivery through effective operating models, governance, and tools to reduce Financial Crime risk and achieve strategic outcomes.
Requirements
- Proven experience delivering complex change and transformation programmes, including operational changes, remediations, and technical builds, with considerable expertise in risk, controls, business and delivery management aligned to strategic objectives.
- Worked with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Been accountable for delivery standards and had delivery assured by Compliance or Audit.
- Extensive Economic Crime experience, with a deep understanding of AML, Screening, KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Fraud and Scam prevention, financial crime typologies, associated risks, and industry best practice.
- Experience leveraging Machine Learning and AI-driven enhancements to improve Economic Crime detection, prevention, and operational efficiency.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence matrix teams in a fast-paced environment, identifying risks and blockers, driving solutions, and escalating issues appropriately to ensure successful delivery against changing priorities.
- People leadership experience, with the ability to lead, coach, and develop high performing teams in a complex environment.
- Knowledge of Business Banking customers, sectors and products.
- Hold a PRINCE2 Project Management Certification.
- Recognised Financial Crime qualification, such as ICA AML Diploma, ACAMS or equivalent.
- Experience leading or contributing to deep-dive thematic reviews, risk assessments, or regulatory remediation activities.
- Control definition and design experience.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- Define problems and develop innovative solutions through in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
- Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
- Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Skills
- Risk management
- Methodology implementation
- Process improvement
- Stakeholder management
- Relationship management
- Risk policy adherence
- Control environment maintenance
- Strategic planning
- Resource planning
- Budget management
- Policy management
- Process management
- Continuous improvement
- Team leadership
- Performance management
- Employee development
- Subject matter expertise
- Technical direction
- Collaborative leadership
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Analytical thinking
- Problem-solving
- Research
- Influencing
- Negotiation
- Economic Crime transformation
- KYC
- Sanctions
- Transaction Monitoring
- Fraud prevention
- AML
- Screening
- Financial crime typologies
- Machine Learning
- AI
- Agile methodologies
- Waterfall methodologies
- Compliance assurance
- Audit assurance
- Scam prevention
- Matrix team leadership
- Risk identification
- Blocker identification
- Issue escalation
- Change management
- Transformation programmes
- Operational changes
- Remediations
- Technical builds
- Business acumen
- Strategic thinking
- Digital technology
- Job-specific technical skills
Location
- London
- Northampton
- Knutsford
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Vice President
- Senior
Education Level
- PRINCE2 Project Management Certification
- ICA AML Diploma
- ACAMS
About the Company
- Barclays is a global financial services provider engaged in banking and investment banking operations.