Customer Care Leader

Join us as Customer Care Leader, where you will be responsible to manage operations within a business area and maintain processes, risk management initiatives and compliance with relevant regulators. 

To be successful as Customer Care Leader,  you should have experience with:

•  Proven expertise in Corporate/Commercial Banking KYC (UK market experience preferred).
•  Strong understanding of CDD, EDD, KYC Remediation, and Periodic Review processes.
•  Experience in reviewing and approving high-risk customer profiles.
•  Strong track record in error trend analysis, feedback loops, and process improvement.
•  Experience in driving compliance adherence while balancing operational efficiency.
•  Working knowledge of UK regulatory requirements (FCA, JMLSG, FATF) and global AML/KYC standards.
•  Awareness of PEP, Sanctions, Adverse Media, Source of Funds/Wealth checks.
•  Hands-on experience with KYC workflow platforms (e.g., Salesforce, Fullserve, Sharepoint).
•  Strong proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and data analysis tools.

•  Graduate/Post graduate degree in Commerce, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.

Desirable Skills & Attributes

•  Ability to lead a mid-sized QC team with a coaching and mentoring approach.
•  Strong stakeholder engagement skills across Operations, Compliance, Risk, and Client-facing teams.
•  Ability to identify root causes of errors, implement corrective actions, and monitor results.
•  Skilled in data interpretation, trend reporting, and risk mitigation strategies.
•  Experience in Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement projects.
•  Ability to work on process standardization, customer journey improvements, and automation opportunities.
•  Excellent verbal and written English communication, with an ability to prepare senior management reports.
•  Skilled in presenting findings and recommendations in an executive-friendly manner.

Preferred Certifications (Good to Have)

•  CAMS / ICA Diploma in AML / ACAMS-KYC Certified / CKYCA.
•  Lean Six Sigma Green Belt / Black Belt.

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.

This role will be based out of Chennai.

Purpose of the role

To lead and develop a highly engaged team, pioneering an omni channel experience to achieve consistently excellent customer outcomes. Build and maintain your team’s capability to deliver excellent customer outcomes through identifying, understanding, and meeting customer needs both internally and externally, using available tools and enablers to grow business performance. 

Accountabilities

• Customer service to create excellent customer satisfaction and positively influence NPS (Net Promoter Scores), act as an ambassador for Barclays externally and internally, creating connections and growth for customers.
• Identification and maintenance of active performance management standards across the team, communicating to and inspiring colleagues to be commercially minded, achieve goals and expectations, measure them frequently and honestly to ensure personal growth and support early identification and intervention where required.
• Day to day running of the business, using internal and external insights to develop an effective business plan, making evaluative judgments to support customers with their financial needs and drive long term sustainable revenue growth in your area.
• Market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.
• Cultivation of a resolution culture where leaders and colleagues are customer advocates and are empowered to deal with customer requests fairly at first point of contact.
• Creation of an empowering environment, bringing together and supporting a community of colleagues who care about Customers, Colleagues and Outcomes.
• Operational performance of allocated sites and surrounding touchpoints. Ensuring operational and risk frameworks are adhered to for all direct reports, including observations.
• Creation of a culture which enables focus on building deeper relationships with customers and contribute to the overall success of Barclays.

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.