Financial Crime Compliance Design Governance

Barclays UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in London is seeking a Vice President in the Financial Crime Compliance Design Governance team. This role focuses on enhancing financial crime governance frameworks, stakeholder management, and requires strong expertise in financial crime regulations. Candidates should possess excellent leadership qualities and the ability to analyze business requirements, ensuring effective solutions align with strategic priorities. Competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth are available.

Qualifications

• Experience with designing financial crime risk governance frameworks.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze business problems and client requirements.
• Develop business requirements for proposed solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders for solutions alignment.

Skills

Financial Crime Regulations and Typologies

Risk Governance and Control Frameworks

Stakeholder Management & Communication

Knowledge of Sanctions and Anti-Bribery & Corruption controls

Financial Crime Technology and Data Literacy

Change Management and Process Design

Job description

The Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio is a multi-faceted Financial Crime programme of change delivered via over 20 programmes to create a holistic, risk-based, and effective Financial Crime environment. It aims to strengthen robustness, enhance automation of Financial Crime processes, develop skills across all lines of defence, and empower partners, colleagues, and customers to identify and prevent Financial Crime by raising awareness of the risks.

Join the Financial Crime Compliance Design Governance team, where you'll be a member of the Strategic Transformation & Change Team, working within IFC and reporting to the Head of Design Governance. The team sits within the Central Portfolio Team (CPT) and is responsible for facilitating the design governance process and embedding the Accountabilities and Responsibilities within IFC.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience with:

• Financial Crime Regulations and Typologies: Expertise in AML in the UK, understanding of regulatory expectations and enforcement trends.
• Risk Governance and Control Frameworks: Ability to design, assess, and enhance financial crime risk governance frameworks and processes, including systems related to onboarding, screening, transaction monitoring, and wider governance.
• Stakeholder Management & Communication: Capable of influencing senior stakeholders and translating technical risk concepts into business-relevant language.

Additional valued skills include:

• Knowledge of Sanctions and Anti-Bribery & Corruption controls
• Financial Crime Technology and Data Literacy
• Experience with transaction monitoring and machine learning in supporting financial crime controls
• Change Management and Process Design

You may be assessed on key skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, along with technical skills.

This role will be based in either our London or Glasgow office.

Purpose of the role

To support the organization in achieving its strategic objectives by identifying business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Identify and analyze business problems and client requirements requiring change.
• Develop business requirements to address these problems and opportunities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure solutions meet their needs.
• Support the creation of business cases for investment in solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies on proposed solutions.
• Support reports on project progress to ensure timely and within-budget delivery.
• Create operational and process designs to ensure solutions are delivered within scope.
• Support change management activities, including developing a traceability matrix for successful implementation.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to strategy, requirements, and recommendations for change; manage resources, budgets, and policies; deliver improvements; escalate breaches.
• Manage teams, define roles, plan for future needs, and lead specialists to influence operations aligned with strategic and tactical priorities.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energize and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For individual contributors, act as subject matter experts, guide technical direction, lead assignments, and coach others.
• Advise stakeholders on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignment.
• Manage risks and strengthen controls related to team activities.
• Demonstrate understanding of organizational functions to contribute to business goals.
• Collaborate across areas to stay aligned with business strategies.
• Create solutions based on complex analytical thinking and extensive research.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with stakeholders, using influencing skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.