Business Oversight Compliance - USCB Financial Crime VP

Archer; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for a pivotal compliance leadership role in the US. The VP will provide independent oversight across the financial crime framework, assess controls, and advise senior stakeholders on BSA/AML and sanctions within a Wilmington, DE context.

As a senior subject-matter expert, you will translate regulatory expectations into sustainable control improvements, support regulatory exams, and drive risk culture across

Qualifications

• Experience with AML transaction monitoring, alert/case investigations, and SAR filings.
• Ability to challenge risk assessments and identify sustainable remediation.
• Knowledge of OFAC sanctions screening, watchlist governance, and alert disposition.

Responsibilities

• Identify and assess compliance risks through reviews of activities, changes, processes, testing, and systems.
• Investigate potential market abuse and oversee corrective actions and preventive measures.
• Implement compliance policies aligned with regulatory requirements and international standards.
• Collaborate with 1LOD, legal, and risk management functions to support a comprehensive approach to compliance.
• Identify, investigate and oversee potential money laundering and other financial crimes.

Skills

AML experience

Fraud investigations

Sanctions controls

Risk assessments

Regulatory exams

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Archer is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Join Barclays as a Business Oversight Compliance - USCB Financial Crime VP, providing independent oversight and challenge across the financial crime framework. You will assess financial crime controls, emerging risks and remediation efforts across products, customers, and transactions. The role will advise senior stakeholders on BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, and other financial crime requirements. You will support risk assessments, regulatory and audit engagements, and help translate regulatory expectations into sustainable control improvements. As a senior subject-matter expert, you will influence key stakeholders and strengthen the organization’s financial crime risk culture.

To be successful as a Business Oversight Compliance - USCB Financial Crime VP, you should have:

• AML and fraud experience, including transaction monitoring, alert/case investigations, fraud-to-AML escalation, SAR referrals/filings, and QA
• Experience conducting gap analysis and thematic reviews, identifying control weaknesses, root causes, and sustainable remediation
• Knowledge of sanctions controls, including OFAC screening, watchlist governance, alert disposition, escalation, and potential matches
• Ability to challenge risk assessments, evaluate control effectiveness, and identify sustainable remediation
• Experience supporting regulatory exams, audits, assurance reviews, and executive responses

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Consumer banking experience across credit cards, deposits, lending, brokered deposits, and digital financial services
• Leadership in product approvals, material change assessments, third-party oversight, risk appetite, issue management, and regulatory change
• Financial crime investigations and SAR governance, including investigation quality, challenge, disposition, and escalation
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across Legal, Operations, Technology, Product, Audit, Assurance, and Compliance
• Excel and PowerPoint skills, including large data analysis, dashboards, trend identification, and executive reporting

You may be assessed on the key skills critical for success in this role, including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology expertise, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in Wilmington, DE.

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 preventive 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 expedite 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.