Financial Crime Programme Director

Barclays UK; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job description

Required Skills and Knowledge

Strong knowledge of Financial Crime Prevention processes, policies and procedures including Anti Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, and Know Your Customer (KYC). Up to date with evolving financial crime regulations and industry standards. Ability to analyze complex data and draw meaningful conclusions. Familiarity with developing and implementing financial crime prevention technologies such as screening tools, transaction monitoring systems, and analytical platforms. Experience in managing complex portfolios including financial crime compliance initiatives from inception to completion. Ability to build, motivate, and lead a team of financial crime programme managers. Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate with stakeholders including internal teams and regulators. Ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes in financial crime prevention. Ability to make sound decisions under pressure. Ability to focus on detail, accuracy, and critically analyze complex information.

Purpose of the Role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control, and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage, and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business-wide.
• Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. For individual contributors, lead organisation-wide projects and act as deep technical experts and thought leaders, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross-functionally. Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate, and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed and relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/group to achieve overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector/functional knowledge and insight into external market developments/initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as the principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/business divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

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.