Financial Crime Compliance Design Lead

Barclays; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a Financial Crime Compliance Design Lead to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory responsibilities. This role involves oversight of compliance risks, conducting investigations, and collaborating with teams to align with regulations. Candidates should have expertise in AML regulations, proven ability to design effective financial crime controls, and strong communication skills. This position will be based in Glasgow.

Qualifications

• Experience with AML regulations and financial crime risks.
• Proven track record designing controls across compliance areas.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight on compliance matters and evidence compliance.
• Identify and assess compliance risks through reviews.
• Conduct investigations of compliance events and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with teams to align compliance with regulatory standards.

Skills

Advanced expertise in UK AML regulations

Proven ability to design financial crime controls

Experience shaping financial crime solutions

Familiarity with multi-jurisdictional AML requirements

Understanding of screening tools and transaction monitoring

Job description

Overview

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, strengthen robustness and enhance automation of Financial Crime processes, develop and strengthen our skills and capabilities across all lines of defence and empower our partners, colleagues and customers to identify and prevent Financial Crime by raising awareness of the risks.

As a Financial Crime Compliance Design Lead within the Central Portfolio Team, you will be a subject matter expert with deep technical knowledge of one of the key Financial Crime control pillars e.g. Customer Due Diligence, Screening, Transaction Monitoring and Intelligence and Investigations. You will take a holistic view of the overall control landscape that we have in Barclays; including the end to end systems, controls and processes throughout the customer lifecycle to design new, or enhance existing, controls.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Compliance Design Lead, you should have experience with:

• 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.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Familiarity with multi‑jurisdictional AML requirements and working knowledge of Sanctions, ABC 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.

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 out of our Glasgow office.

Job Details

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 a 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 to.
• 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

• To 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 escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will 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, 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.
• 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 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.