FCS people leader - Adverse media Screening

Barclays; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Gurugram, India is seeking an Assistant Vice President to lead Adverse Media Screening within Financial Crime Services. You will shape risk controls, ensure sanctions policy compliance, and guide a multi-disciplinary team across the bank.

You will partner with regulators and stakeholders, drive improvements, and embed a strong culture of risk awareness across the function. The role emphasizes leadership, data-driven decisions, and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial crime risk and compliance.
• Proven ability to build and maintain robust risk controls.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional leaders and regulators.

Responsibilities

• Identify trends to improve processes and develop new procedures.
• Manage operations for a business area and promote risk and compliance initiatives.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to align with objectives and SLAs.
• Lead and coach operational professionals to improve delivery quality.
• Develop KPIs to measure effectiveness of operational functions.
• Ensure regulatory and internal policy compliance in customer experience.
• Foster a safe environment and actively collect feedback to guide people agenda.
• Partner with HR to manage attrition and retention initiatives.

Skills

Risk & Controls

Change & Transformation

Business Acumen

Strategic Thinking

Digital & Technology

Leadership & People Management

Executive Communication

Job description

Step into the role of a FCS people leader - Adverse media Screeningat Barclays, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future. Join us in our mission to safeguard our business and our customers from financial crime risks.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role such as:

• Support various Financial Crime processes, which might include though not limited to payments / sanctions screening, adverse media screening and other AML related processes.

• Ensure compliance with Barclays Group Sanctions Policy and with Barclays Regulatory responsibilities in respect of the fight against Financial Crime.

• Establishing and maintaining robust compliance level and ensuring the effective use of controls, always ensuring an effective understanding of team adherence to data security standards and immediate resolution of identified issues, possibly working with others (Fraud/Police/Legal/HR Partner) where security breaches are identified, and disciplinary actions are called for.

• Identify, initiate, and execute enhancements and improvements across the business, driving culture of efficiency, whilst remaining effective against policy.

Desirable skills sets:

• Responsible for development, delivery, and maintenance of an effective Operational Risk Control environment to covering all aspects of Functional operational risk.

• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

• Proven experience managing and mentoring large, multi-disciplinary teams. Demonstrated ability to inspire, motivate, and influence at all levels of the organization.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present complex information to executive leadership, regulators, and diverse audiences.

• Track record of effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, executive stakeholders, and external partners.

• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex data, identify risks and trends, and drive effective risk mitigation strategies.

You may be assessed on key essential skills relevant to succeed 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 is based out of Gurugram.

Purpose of the role

To manage operations within a business area and maintain processes, risk management initiatives and compliance with relevant regulators.

Accountabilities

• Identification of trends and opportunities to improve areas and develop new process and procedures through the monitoring and analysis of operation data and performance metrices.
• Management of operations for a business area and promote efficient processes, risk management and compliance initiatives to support the bank's operations.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders (including business leaders, project manager and SMEs) and external stakeholders (including vendors and service providers) to support business operations and promote alignment with the bank's objectives and SLAs.
• Management of operational professionals and provide guidance, coaching and support to improve colleagues' delivery quality.
• Management and development of KPIs to measure the effectiveness of operation functions, utilising data and technology to support the identification of areas that require improvement.
• Compliance with all regulatory requirements and internal policies related to customer experience.
• Creation of a safe environment for colleagues to speak up, actively and regularly encourage and solicit feedback to ensure people agenda remains focused on the right areas.
• Management of attrition by working closely with HR in implementing retention initiatives for work force.

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.