Financial Crime Transformation Manager

As a Financial Crime Transformation Manager, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Barclays UK Retail Banking Financial Crime team to protect both Barclays and our customers from the social and economic impact of Financial Crime. This will involve developing, maintaining, managing the Financial Crime risk and control responsibilities and oversight across Barclays UK Customer including suppliers. You will be working within either the Frameworks pillar (designing and maintaining control outcomes and threat mitigation frameworks) or the Approvals team (running a team of specialists managing the most complex financial crime cases). In this role, you will be a core part of the first line financial crime team.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Transformation Manager, you should have experience with:

• Experience in Leadership as you will be managing and working with various stakeholders.
• Experience and strong understanding of financial crime compliance and risk management within a financial services organization.
• The ability to use internal and external data and insight to develop strategic approaches and make recommendations for risk management improvements.
• Significant experience and skills in working with senior stakeholders across a business area and making sound risk-based decisions with important consequences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to influence through a matrixed organisation.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Financial Crime qualifications – International Compliance Association (ICA) or Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMs) at Post-Graduate diploma or Diploma level.
• Experience in a consultancy capacity (ideally in a financial crime or regulatory compliance area).
• Experience of managing a senior management decision forum with representation across advisory functions.

You may be assessed on the 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.

Purpose of the role:

To 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.

Accountabilities:

• Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
• Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.

Vice President Expectations:

• 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. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• 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.

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.