Financial Crime Compliance Expert

Barclays UK; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in London seeks a Financial Crime Compliance Expert to design and enhance financial crime controls. This role involves ensuring compliance, collaborating with stakeholders, and supporting change management activities. Ideal candidates will have in-depth knowledge of UK AML regulations and experience in control design. The position offers a dynamic environment focused on mitigating financial crime risks.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of UK AML regulations and financial crime risks.
• Strong understanding of control design principles.
• Experience with regulatory expectations and change management.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze business problems that require change.
• Develop business requirements to address issues.
• Support change management activities to ensure successful implementation.

Skills

Knowledge of UK AML regulations

Control design expertise

Ability to influence design decisions

Familiarity with AML requirements

Experience in regulatory engagement

Job description

Overview

As a Financial Crime Compliance Expert in our newly created Design Hub within the Integrated Financial Crime Programme, you will take a holistic view of the overall design of financial crime controls that we have in Barclays. You will look at financial crime control design particularly across Customer Due Diligence, Screening and Transaction Monitoring, and other enabling controls, identifying potential enhancements to the control landscape. With your effective engagement skills, you will bridge technical and regulatory concepts for delivery and business stakeholders. You will respond to regulatory findings and remediate identified issues.

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.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Compliance Expert, you should have experience in:

Deep Knowledge in Financial Crime Regulations and Typologies

• In-depth knowledge of UK AML regulations, financial crime risks and typologies.
• Up-to-date understanding of regulatory expectations and enforcement trends, with the ability to apply these practically during control design.

Control Design

• Designing, assessing and enhancing financial crime controls and frameworks across the customer life cycle.
• Embedding compliance by design principles within business and technology programmes.
• Robust understanding of how financial crime risks translate into systems and control requirements and be able to review the connectivity of controls, processes across multiple business units and jurisdictions.

Programme Collaboration and Influence

• Working within or alongside delivery teams to shape financial crime solutions.
• Ability to influence design decisions and advocate for risk-based approaches within programme and product lifecycles.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

Broader Regulatory and Domain Knowledge

• Familiarity with AML requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Working knowledge of Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC) and related financial crime areas.

Financial Crime Technology

• Understanding of how technologies such as screening tools, transaction monitoring platforms or machine learning models support control effectiveness.
• Experience contributing to the design or enhancement of tech-enabled financial crime controls.

Regulatory Engagement and/or Remediation

• Awareness of regulatory expectations related to traceability, evidencing and auditability of control design.
• Exposure to remediation programmes or regulatory engagements.

Change Management and Process Design

• Experience supporting large-scale transformations or control design from a Compliance and/or Business Unit lens.
• Ability to map and improve processes in ways that support risk mitigation and control effectiveness.

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 can be based in either London or Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

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.