Intelligence & Investigations Project Manager VP

Barclays; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays seeks an Intelligence & Investigations Project Manager VP to lead the delivery of critical projects within the IFC portfolio. You will work with business analysts and stakeholders to define requirements and deliver both technical and operating model solutions using an agile approach.

Based in Glasgow or London, you will manage change programmes, drive risk and controls, and mentor teams, ensuring delivery on time, within budget, and in compliance with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Extensive project delivery experience, preferably in Financial Crime.
• Proven stakeholder management skills at senior levels.
• Experience working in an international financial institution.

Responsibilities

• Manage change projects delivering on time, within scope and budget.
• Develop and manage project plans with timelines and resources.
• Communicate with senior management, project teams and external partners.
• Lead project teams and ensure proper resourcing and skills.
• Create progress reports showing delivery against budgets.
• Identify and mitigate project risks and dependencies.
• Facilitate change management activities, including training.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder management

Financial Crime

Job description

Join us as an Intelligence & Investigations Project Manager VP, where you will lead the delivery of key projects within the Intelligence and Investigations Programme, as part of the Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio. You will work closely with business analysts and Intelligence and Investigations stakeholders to define and deliver both technical and operating model based solutions, gathering and refining requirements using an agile approach to support both management and investigative processes.

To be successful as an Intelligence & Investigations Project Manager VP, you must have the following essential skills:

• Extensive Project Management delivery (Financial Crime preferred).
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in an international financial institution.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Experience working on a transformation / change project.
• Experience of working on a large programme.
• Financial Crime intelligence, investigations, oversight or law enforcement project delivery

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the 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 Glasgow or London.

Purpose of the role

To manage change projects that help the organisation achieve its strategic objectives, while ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within budget, in control and in compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Management of change projects within the organisation, ensuring that they are delivered on time, within scope, budget, and to the required quality standards.
• Development and management of project plans that outline the scope, objectives, timelines, and resource requirements for change projects.
• Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure they are informed about project progress and that their needs and expectations are being met.
• Management of project teams, ensuring that they are properly resourced and that they have the necessary skills and expertise to deliver on project objectives.
• Management of project budgets, ensuring that projects are delivered within the agreed budget.
• Creation of reports on project progress to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Management of project risks, ensuring that risk, assumptions, issues and dependencies are identified, assessed, and mitigated as necessary.
• Facilitation of change management activities, including training and communication, to ensure that change projects are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

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.