Project Manager - Financial Crime

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Project Manager - Financial Crime based in Knutsford or Glasgow to lead large-scale transformation across technology and financial crime programmes. You will coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure delivery of strategic outcomes while enhancing operational effectiveness.

The role requires proven experience in managing complex programmes, knowledge of the financial crime landscape, and ability to implement change with Agile methods.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in large scale project management and delivery transformation.
• Experience in the financial crime landscape, including regulatory change initiatives.
• Experience delivering change with Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex change delivery and coordinate cross-functional teams across technology and business areas.
• Ensure strategic outcomes and governance alignments while managing risks and issues.
• Engage with senior stakeholders to drive requirements and secure buy-in for delivery plans.

Skills

Project management

Financial crime knowledge

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role Focused on delivering individual projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget with a more immediate focus. Accountabilities Scope Management: Manages a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget. Strategic Focus: Operates more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project. Time Horizon: Works with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end. Stakeholder Management: Primarily manages stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project’s deliverables. Risk and Issue Management: Focuses on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project’s scope. Resource Management: Manages resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work. Financial Management: Focuses on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints. Metrics: Measures success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget. Change Management: Manages changes that directly impact their specific project, including scope changes, timelines, or resource allocation adjustments. 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. Join Barclays as a Project Manager - Financial Crime and play a pivotal role in driving large-scale transformation initiatives across technology and financial crime programmes. You will lead complex change delivery, coordinate cross-functional teams, and ensure strategic outcomes are achieved while enhancing operational effectiveness and supporting business objectives. This role operates within Integrated Financial Crime (IFC), a function dedicated to driving a safer and stronger Barclays through effective financial crime prevention, risk management, and technology-enabled solutions.

To be successful as a Project Manager - Financial Crime, you should have experience with:

• Proven experience in large scale Project mgmt. and delivery transformation – delivering complex programmes on time while driving measurable business outcomes
• Experience working in and understanding of the financial crime landscape – enabling effective delivery of regulatory and financial crime change initiatives
• Experience in delivering change and Agile ways of working – supporting adaptive delivery models and continuous value creation

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• A continuous improvement and change mindset, with a focus on delivering process optimisation, control effectiveness, and sustainable solutions
• Experience managing complex dependencies across business, ops & technology teams while maintaining project governance
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders across Business, Technology, Operations, Architecture, Data, Risk, Compliance, and senior leadership teams

This role is based in Knutsford or Glasgow. 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.