Transaction Monitoring Controls & Strategy

Barclays UK; Northampton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a Transaction Monitoring Controls & Strategy professional in Northampton. This role entails supporting governance and oversight of Transaction Monitoring and Financial Crime risks. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Financial Crime risk management and the ability to influence senior stakeholders. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and development in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Crime risk management and controls.
• Proven ability to manage governance frameworks.
• Experience in producing risk-level reporting.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support governance of Transaction Monitoring and Financial Crime risk.
• Produce risk-level reporting and conduct risk impact assessments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance control effectiveness.

Skills

Experience in Financial Crime risk management

Ability to manage governance frameworks

Experience producing risk-level reporting

Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders

Job description

Join us at Barclays for a Transaction Monitoring Controls & Strategy role within the Chief Controls Office (CCO). In this role you will support the governance and oversight of Transactional Monitoring (TM) and Financial Crime (FC) risk across the business. You will act as a subject matter expert in financial crime governance, managing issues, incidents, and risk impact assessments. You’ll be responsible for producing risk-level reporting, engaging with senior stakeholders, and ensuring that TM controls are effectively governed and aligned with the bank’s policy.

You will be providing assurance and oversight across Transaction Monitoring related activities. This role requires a understanding of Financial Crime risk management, the ability to influence senior stakeholders, and a proactive approach to driving governance outcomes. Your background in assurance or audit will be very beneficial in this role.

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 Transaction Monitoring Controls & Strategy you should have experience with:

• Experience in Financial Crime risk management and controls, particularly in Transactional Monitoring, Screening, or Sanctions.
• Ability to manage governance frameworks, including issue and incident management.
• Experience producing risk-level reporting and conducting risk impact assessments.
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders, including MLROs and Risk Owners.

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 out of Northampton or Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.

Accountabilities

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc). to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.