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About the Role

This role supports the Chief Risk Officer(s) in implementing and maintaining the bank's risk management framework across business units and functions. It focuses on financial crime client risk governance, ensuring material risk matters are escalated, challenged, and resolved in alignment with risk appetite.

Responsibilities

Implement and support risk management policies, standards, procedures, and controls.
Assess and promote risk management awareness, controls, and culture.
Review, challenge, and monitor existing risk management practices for improvement.
Identify new and emerging risks, assess their impact, and recommend mitigation strategies.
Manage associated committees, forums, and meetings.
Maintain risk inventories and governance documentation.
Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
Plan resources, budgets, and policies.
Manage and maintain policies and processes.
Deliver continuous improvements and escalate policy/procedure breaches.
Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment to support the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organizational functions to achieve business goals.
Collaborate with other work areas to stay updated on business activity and strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought.
Define problems and develop innovative solutions through in-depth analysis.
Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving.
Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with stakeholders.
Lead and evolve client risk governance and escalation frameworks.
Lead and develop a high-performing governance team.
Oversee Financial Crime Risk Appetite governance and exceptions management.
Produce executive-level committee reporting and risk insights.
Drive governance transformation, control enhancement, and regulatory readiness.
Partner with senior stakeholders to influence complex risk decisions.
Act as the principal 1LoD governance contact for senior Business stakeholders, Financial Crime Responsible Executives, Compliance, MLROs, Legal, and relevant control functions.
Prepare senior leaders for material forum decisions and executive governance discussions.
Lead simplification and enhancement of the client risk governance landscape.
Design and embed sustainable operating processes and metrics for escalation initiation, case tracking, prioritization, breach management, decision implementation, and evidence retention.
Define requirements for supporting technology, workflow, and document repositories.

Requirements

Significant experience in Financial Crime, risk, controls, compliance, governance, or a related discipline within a complex financial services organization.
Demonstrable experience designing, leading, or enhancing senior governance forums and producing executive-level committee reporting.
Considerable knowledge of client risk governance, financial crime risk appetite, escalation, risk acceptance, and decision-making frameworks.
Experience operating across Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, and/or Markets, with an understanding of complex client, product, and jurisdictional risk.
Proven ability to provide credible challenge and influence senior stakeholders across the first and second lines of defence and partner functions.
Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to convert complex risk information into succinct executive narrative and decision-ready materials.
Experience managing multiple recurring governance cycles alongside transformation, remediation, or control enhancement activity.
Experience leading and developing teams in a high-accountability environment.
Experience developing or refreshing Financial Crime Risk Appetite Statements and associated escalation criteria (desirable).
Experience responding to Internal Audit, assurance, or regulatory reviews concerning governance, client risk, or financial crime controls (desirable).
Knowledge of KYC/CDD, sanctions, adverse information, PEP, suspicious activity, and high-risk sector governance (desirable).
Experience with governance workflow, reporting automation, document management, and committee collaboration tools (desirable).
Relevant professional qualification in financial crime, compliance, risk, law, accountancy, or governance (desirable).
If based in Birmingham, travel to London once per month would be desirable.

Skills

Risk management
Financial Crime
Governance
Compliance
Risk appetite
Escalation frameworks
Committee reporting
Stakeholder management
Influencing
Negotiating
Analytical thinking
Problem-solving
Team leadership
KYC/CDD
Sanctions
Adverse information
PEP
Suspicious activity
High-risk sector governance
Workflow tools
Reporting automation
Document management
Committee collaboration tools

Location

Birmingham
London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Vice President
Senior

Education Level

Relevant professional qualification in financial crime, compliance, risk, law, accountancy or governance

About the Company

Barclays is a global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management services.

Equal Opportunity

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.