Financial Crime Risk Transaction Monitoring Control Owner

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

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Glasgow is seeking a Financial Crime Risk Transaction Monitoring Control Owner to shape banking's future at the intersection of risk, data integrity, and technology. Candidates should possess expertise in Transaction Monitoring and Financial Crime Risk, alongside strong data analysis and stakeholder management skills. The role involves designing, developing, and implementing statistical and machine learning models while ensuring robust monitoring controls across business lines. Experience in coding and project management is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in Transaction Monitoring and Financial Crime Risk.
• Strong data analysis capabilities to resolve data integrity issues.
• Exceptional stakeholder management across senior levels.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain statistical and machine learning models.
• Acquire and clean data from various internal and external sources.
• Monitor model performance in real-time and identify biases.

Skills

Transaction Monitoring

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Coding proficiency (Python, SQL)

Project management

Education

Financial crime qualifications (IFC, ACMAS)

Job description

Join us as a Financial Crime Risk Transaction Monitoring (TM) Control Owner, where you will shape the future of Banking at Barclays. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of financial crime risk, data integrity, and technology delivery. You’ll be responsible for ensuring robust TM controls across multiple business lines, driving strategic tech initiatives, and managing complex data challenges.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Risk Transaction Monitoring (TM) Control Owner, you should have:

• Proven expertise in Transaction Monitoring and Financial Crime Risk.
• Strong data analysis capabilities and experience resolving data integrity issues.
• Exceptional stakeholder management across senior levels.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Coding proficiency (e.g., Python, SQL).
• Project management experience in financial crime or risk domains.
• Familiarity with machine learning or AI tools in TM or fraud detection.
• Recognized financial crime qualifications (e.g., IFC, ACMAS).

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 is based in Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop, implement, and maintain various statistical, mathematical and machine learning models to support decision‑making by analysis and solving complex problems.

Accountabilities

• Acquisition and collection of data from various sources, including internal databases, external datasets, and real‑time feeds.
• Performing data cleaning and pre‑processing tasks to ensure data quality and suitability for model development.
• Design and implementation of data management strategies for model maintenance and future development.
• Designing, development, and implementation of statistical and machine learning models for various applications, including credit risk assessment, fraud detection, customer segmentation, and marketing optimisation.
• Monitoring model performance in real-time and identify any potential issues or biases.
• Leading training, mentoring, and knowledge‑sharing sessions to uplift ML capability across the organisation.
• Evaluating and piloting emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks to ensure the organisation remains at the forefront of AI innovation.

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 elevate 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.