IFC TM PMO Lead

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking an Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) TM PMO Lead to support the governance of end-to-end change across Transaction Monitoring. You will work with delivery partners, ensure controls and governance standards are met, and help mature PMO practices. Location can be Glasgow or London, with exposure to senior stakeholders.

You will apply Agile methods, maintain project documentation, and contribute to risk management and reporting to senior management.

Qualifications

• Experience with governance frameworks within banking environments.
• Experience in Agile change delivery governance including planning and oversight.
• Ability to build senior stakeholder relationships and communicate clearly at all levels.
• Proven capability to lead and coach delivery teams and manage risk.

Responsibilities

• Oversee governance of end-to-end change with delivery partners and PMs.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee programmes to ensure consistent outcomes.
• Support project documentation, plans, schedules and budgets, keeping records up-to-date.
• Provide change management framework training and drive continuous improvement.

Skills

Governance

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Navigator

MS Visio

MS Word

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role

To support change delivery managers in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that project management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives.

Accountabilities

Support to change delivery managers, ensuring their programme is compliant with the Barclays Control Framework, including oversight of controls and governance standards. Creation and implementation of standardised PMO processes and methodologies that are aligned with controls and governance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects. Monitoring of project performance, including tracking of project progress, identification of risks assumptions, issues and dependencies, and creation of report on project status to senior management. Support of project documentation, including maintenance of project plans, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that project documentation is up-to-date and accurate. Facilitation of project governance, including ensuring that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives, and that project risks assumptions, issues and dependencies are managed effectively. Provision of change management framework training to project managers and other stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to deliver successful projects. Continuous improvement of project management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve project delivery.

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.

Leadership Behaviours

• L – Listen and be authentic
• E – Energise and inspire
• A – Align across the enterprise
• D – Develop others

Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) TM PMO Lead

Join us as an Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) TM PMO Lead, to support the delivery of key financial crime Project activities within Transaction Monitoring and help strengthen Barclays’ governance environment. This role sits within a dynamic and collaborative environment; your work will directly support Barclays’ commitment to maintaining an effective financial crime framework and protecting clients and the organisation. You will benefit from working on high-impact programmes, gaining exposure to senior stakeholders, and contributing to meaningful change in a evolving regulatory environment. 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.

Key Responsibilities

To be successful as an Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) TM PMO Lead you should have experience with:

• Proven ability to oversee a team responsible for the governance of end-to-end change, working with delivery partners, supporting PMs with change delivery processes, and operating within governance frameworks while planning and coordinating activities
• Experience in Agile method of change delivery governance, including planning, coordination, and oversight of programmes to support consistent and effective outcomes using tools like Jira, Confluence and Navigator
• Proven ability to build senior stakeholder relationships, foster collaboration, enable informed outcomes, communicate clearly at all levels, and use MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio proficiently

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Demonstrated capability in structured assessment and review activities, including quality assurance, to support accuracy, consistency, and effective outcomes
• Detailed knowledge of governance frameworks within the banking environment, including involvement in internal and external audit processes related to governance oversight
• Transaction Monitoring experience would be an advantage

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.

Location

This role will be based in Glasgow or London.

Work Experience & Culture

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.