Financial Crime Compliance Design Lead

Purpose of the Role

To provide data‑led expert oversight and check and challenge on business and compliance matters to evidence that the organisation is operating in compliance with Barclays legal, regulatory and ethical responsibilities.

Accountabilities

• Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems.
• Identification and investigation of potential market abuse, including but not limited to insider dealing, unlawful disclosure, market manipulation or anti‑competitive conduct.
• Conduct investigation of compliance risk events or breaches.
• Oversight and check and challenge of corrective actions and preventative measures to avoid future occurrences.
• Implementation of compliance policies and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and ensuring that the bank’s internal policies are aligned with international standards, including jurisdictional requirements.
• Collaboration with 1LOD, other relevant compliance teams and legal, and relevant risk management functions to facilitate a comprehensive approach to compliance and risk management.
• Identification, investigation and oversight of potential money laundering, terrorist financing or other financial crime.

Vice President Expectations

• 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 escape breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, 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 a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, aligning strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short‑ and long‑term goals, and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours (listen and be authentic, energise and inspire, align across the enterprise, develop others) to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards.
• As an individual contributor, be a subject matter expert within own discipline, guide technical direction, lead collaborative multi‑year assignments, train, guide and coach less experienced specialists, and 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, supporting 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’s 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 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.
• 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 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.

Key Skills and Qualifications

• Advanced expertise in UK AML regulations, financial crime risks and typologies, with up‑to‑date knowledge of regulatory expectations and enforcement trends applied effectively in control design.
• Proven ability to design financial crime controls across CDD, screening, transaction monitoring or intelligence & investigations, with a strong understanding of how risks translate into system/control requirements and experience embedding compliance‑by‑design.
• Experience shaping financial crime solutions within delivery teams, influencing design strategies with a risk‑based approach, and communicating technical/regulatory concepts clearly to stakeholders.
• Familiarity with multi‑jurisdictional AML requirements and working knowledge of sanctions, anti‑bribery and related financial‑crime areas.
• Understanding of screening tools, transaction monitoring platforms and machine‑learning technologies that support financial‑crime controls, with experience contributing to tech‑enabled control design.
• Experience engaging with regulators or supporting remediation programmes.

Additional Highly Valued Skills

• Strong analytical, research and data‑interpretation skills.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder‑management abilities.
• Business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology aptitude.
• Experience with regulatory reporting and regulatory change management.
• Ability to work effectively in cross‑functional teams and in a fast‑changing environment.
• Demonstrated project management and transformation experience.

Location

This role will be based out of our Glasgow office.

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