Economic Crime Governance and Control Manager

Barclays UK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution in London is seeking an Economic Crime Governance and Controls Manager. This role involves strengthening governance frameworks, overseeing risk management, and ensuring effective issue resolution. The ideal candidate will have experience in financial crime governance and possess strong communication skills, influencing stakeholders to mitigate risks. Join a dynamic team in a critical role that shapes the bank's approach to economic crime.

Qualifications

• Experience of Governance and Control across Financial Crime.
• Detailed understanding of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
• Ability to influence peers and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support the Risk Function in safeguarding bank's financial and operational stability.
• Manage the risk department, oversight of colleagues and their performance.
• Develop strategic direction for risk and implement methodologies.

Skills

Governance and Control across Financial Crime

Enterprise Risk Management Framework

Influencing skills

Communication skills (verbal and written)

Data analysis using PowerPoint, Excel, Word

Job description

Join us as an Economic Crime Governance and Controls Manager where you will be supporting the Economic Crime team within Barclays UK. In this role, you will strengthen the governance framework, oversee risk management, and ensure effective issue oversight, escalation and resolution. You will take ownership of creating and coordinating content for a monthly Risk & Control Oversight meeting, providing ongoing support to senior stakeholders and leaders across the business. You will be responsible for delivering insightful reporting on key metrics and control performance, highlighting trends, emerging risks, and the overall effectiveness of the control environment. In addition, you will establish and lead regular issue management oversight meetings, helping to assess, manage, and elevate risk events where required. This includes evaluating the materiality and impact of issues on the business to ensure a clear understanding of the risk profile. Your expertise will drive governance, clear accountability, and effective controls across Economic Crime.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Governance and Controls Manager, you should have:

• Experience of Governance and Control across Financial Crime.

• Detailed understanding of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework and the operation of activities as part of the Barclays Control Framework or similar including OneRA (One Risk Assessment), Control testing and CERPA (Control Environment and Risk Profile Assessment).

• Ability to influence peers and senior stakeholders by highlighting risks and recommending mitigation strategies.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, leveraging PowerPoint, Excel, and Word to analyse large datasets, derive insights, and deliver impactful presentations.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience of RICM (Risks and issues classification matrix) or similar.

• Experience of ORAC or similar.

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.

This role will be based in London or Northampton.

Purpose of the role

To support the Risk Function in delivering it’s 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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.