Financial Crime Agile Testing Specialist

Barclays; Pune District; Sur place; INR 1 400 000 - 2 200 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Barclays in Pune, India, is seeking a Financial Crime Agile Testing Specialist to drive testing, assurance, and oversight of financial crime controls. You will work with risk, compliance, and legal teams to strengthen controls and support regulatory alignment.

The role emphasizes data-led oversight, agile delivery, and effective communication with senior stakeholders across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Crime Assurance or Control Testing within a 2nd line function.
• Knowledge of compliance risk management, financial crime controls, and risk event handling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for senior-level materials.

Responsabilités

• Provide data-led oversight and check-and-challenge on compliance matters.
• Identify and investigate potential market abuse and financial crime.
• Lead implementation of compliance policies in line with regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with 1LOD, legal, and risk management functions.
• Support risk management through complex data analysis and clear reporting.

Connaissances

Risk & Controls

Change Management

Business Acumen

Strategic Thinking

Digital & Tech

Assurance Testing

Financial Crime

Agile Delivery

Stakeholder Management

Senior Communication

Formation

Outils

Salesforce

Workflow Tools

Data Handling

Description du poste

Join us as a Financial Crime Agile Testing Specialist at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our financial crime assurance and testing landscape, driving innovation, control effectiveness, and excellence. You'll harness data-led insights, agile delivery practices, and strong stakeholder engagement to strengthen Barclays' financial crime controls, support robust oversight, and help protect our customers, colleagues, assets, shareholders, and reputation.

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, digital and technology, as well as job-specific skillsets including assurance testing, financial crime investigations, agile delivery, stakeholder management, and senior-level communication.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Agile Testing Specialist, you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

* Experience in Financial Crime Assurance or Control Testing within a 2nd line function, with an understanding of investigative processes, control testing, and hypothesis testing.

* Strong knowledge of compliance risk management, financial crime controls, and the ability to identify, assess, investigate, and challenge risk events or control weaknesses.

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear testing outputs, senior-level materials, and communicate complex or sensitive information effectively.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

* Advisory or consulting experience, including the ability to create memos, pitch ideas, and support the insights, observations or outcomes.

* Project management and stakeholder management experience, including supporting day-to-day delivery, influencing stakeholders, and challenging constructively across the organisation.

* Familiarity with case management systems (such as Salesforce), workflows, data handling, agile ways of working, or digital tools that support testing and oversight activities.

This role will be based out of Pune, India.

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.

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.