VP, Financial Crime Compliance – UK Corporate Bank

Barclays; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a VP for Financial Crime Business Oversight Compliance. This role involves providing oversight, driving compliance, and managing financial crime risks across the UK Corporate Bank. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in financial crime compliance, strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to navigate complex regulatory environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Financial Crime experience in a UK or global financial institution.
• Relevant certifications (ICA, ACAMS, etc.) required.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial crime oversight and advisory support.
• Identify and assess compliance risks through thorough reviews.
• Conduct investigations of compliance risk events or breaches.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Risk Resolution

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Financial Crime Compliance

Corporate Banking

Job description

Barclays is seeking a VP, Financial Crime Business Oversight Compliance to support the UK Corporate Bank, ensuring regulatory excellence and strengthening financial crime prevention efforts. This role requires collaboration across Compliance functions and business stakeholders to drive consistency and proactive risk management. You will provide financial crime oversight and advisory support to the first line of defense and assess financial crime risks related to UK Corporate Bank products, including Barclaycard Payments. You will represent financial crime in governance forums, escalating key risks proactively. You will lead thematic workstreams to enhance financial crime prevention across Barclays International and evaluate any challenge financial crime risk assessments and controls, ensuring consistent implementation of financial crime policies and procedures and advise on emerging risks and contribute to strategic risk mitigation efforts.

To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate must have:

Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across various business functions, fostering collaboration and ensuring alignment with financial crime compliance objectives.

Communication & Decision-Making: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to convey complex regulatory and risk-related matters clearly and effectively. Adept at navigating difficult conversations and making informed, strategic decisions in high-pressure situations.

Escalation & Risk Resolution: Ability to stand firm in the face of escalations, ensuring regulatory integrity while balancing business needs. Skilled in providing independent oversight and challenging decisions where necessary to mitigate financial crime risks.

Essential skills:

- Bachelor’s degree.

- 8+ years of Financial Crime experience in a UK or global financial institution.

- Relevant certifications (ICA, ACAMS, etc.).

- Strong expertise in Corporate Banking, transaction banking, and financial crime compliance.

This role is based in London.

You may be assessed on 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.

Purpose of the role

To provide data-led expert oversight and check and challenge on business and compliance matters to evidence that the organisation is operating in a compliance with Barclays legal, regulatory and ethical responsibilities.

Accountabilities

• Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems to.
• Identification and investigation of potential market abuse, including but not limited to, Insider Dealing, Unlawful Disclosure, Market Manipulation or Anti-Competitive Conduct.
• Conduct investigation of compliance risk events or breaches. Oversight and check and challenge of corrective actions and preventative measures to avoid future occurrences.
• Implementation of compliance policies and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and ensuring that the bank’s internal policies are aligned with international standards, including jurisdictional requirements.
• Collaboration with 1LOD, other relevant Compliance teams and legal, and relevant risk management functions to facilitate a comprehensive approach to compliance and risk management.
• Identification, investigation and oversight of potential money laundering, terrorist financing or other financial crime.

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 escalate 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.