PBWM Fin Crime Risk Manager

Join us as a PBWM Financial Crime Risk Manager and become part of a dynamic, high-impact team at the center of PBWM’s Financial Crime Risk function. In this role, you’ll be key to protecting the business from threats such as money laundering, bribery and corruption, tax evasion facilitation, and sanctions risk. Based in Isle of Man, you’ll represent the First Line of Defence locally, working closely with global colleagues to maintain a consistent financial crime control environment.

You’ll serve as a subject matter expert, supporting front office teams throughout the client lifecycle. Your work will involve establishing and maintaining governance frameworks and clear risk management standards, offering guidance and training to ensure compliance with both internal policies and external regulations. You’ll monitor key risk indicators and help improve financial crime controls, while collaborating with teams across Compliance, Shared Services, and the wider Barclays Group. You’ll also support the delivery of key financial crime projects and programmes that help strengthen controls and improve how risks are managed.

To be successful as a PBWM Financial Crime Risk Manager, you should bring:

• A deep understanding of financial crime risks and the regulatory landscape.
• Practical experience in governance, risk, or compliance within financial services.
• The ability to collaborate across teams and influence stakeholders at different levels.
• Clear communication skills and a sharp, structured approach to analysis.
• A thoughtful, improvement-oriented mindset with a focus on delivering meaningful outcomes.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Attention to detail and accuracy in reviewing information.
• Clear communication across different audiences.
• Critical thinking and sound judgment when assessing multi-layered situations.

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 and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in Isle of Man.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and consult on the bank’s internal controls framework and supporting policies and standards across the organisation, ensuring it is robust, effective, and aligned to the bank’s overall strategy and risk appetite.  

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of emerging and evolving risks across functions to understand their potential impact, and likelihood.
• Communication of the purpose, structure, and importance of the control framework to all relevant stakeholders, including senior management and audit.
• Support to the development and implementation of the bank's internal controls framework and principles tailored to the banks specific needs and risk profile including design, monitoring, and reporting initiatives  .
• Monitoring and maintenance of the control's frameworks, to ensure compliance and adjust and update as internal and external requirements change.
• Embedment of the control framework across the bank through cross collaboration, training sessions and awareness campaigns which fosters a culture of knowledge sharing and improvement in risk management and the importance of internal control effectiveness.

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.