Anti Money Laundering Standards Specialist

Join us as an AML Standards Specialist VP, where you will lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of AML policies and standards across the organization. You’ll ensure our frameworks are robust, compliant with UK and international regulations, and adaptable to emerging risks. One of your key skills is to design and update AML standards, policies, and procedures in line with regulatory changes and collaborate with compliance, risk, and legal teams to ensure alignment across departments. You will provide expert guidance on complex AML issues and regulatory interpretation and lead internal audits and readiness assessments for external reviews.

To be successful as an AML Standards Specialist VP, the ideal candidate must have:

• Proven experience in global AML operations and advisory, with a solid grasp of international compliance standards

•  Deep knowledge of Customer Due Diligence (CDD) processes across jurisdictions

• Strong command of Transaction Monitoring (TM), AML screening, and risk assessment methodologies

• Demonstrated ability to assess and implement control frameworks, particularly how controls intersect with data analytics (DA) to identify and mitigate financial crime risks

• Excellent leadership capabilities with experience managing cross-functional or geographically dispersed teams

• Technologically focused mindset, with experience in leveraging digital tools to enhance AML operations and reporting

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

Location: Glasgow

Purpose of the role

To develop, implement and maintain Risk policies and standards across various business lines and risk types, working collaboratively with Senior Management across the organisation to develop and execute risk management practices that support the achievement of the Bank's strategic objectives.

Accountabilities

• Development of policies, standards and guidance, soliciting feedback from stakeholders across the Bank to deliver an approach that meets regulatory requirements, maintains the integrity of the Framework design and is practical and achievable for the organisation to implement and operate.
• Management of the Annual Refresh cycle for Frameworks, Policies and Standards, ensuring analysis of emerging risks and regulatory changes are identified, and the needs for new or updated policies are updated within the set timeframe.
• Impact assessments to ensure policies and standards can be implemented in adherence with set timeframes. Investigation and addressing of policy violations or potential issues and ensuring the dispensation, waiver and breaches process in invoked where required.
• Implementation and the execution of the Barclays Control Framework that align to Risk Policies, including engagement with the Chief Controls Office and monitoring adherence across the organisation.
• Management of key stakeholders in response to transformation projects, ad-hoc requests, regular dialogue and training and education.
• Maintenance of Framework components to ensure a clear lineage from Laws, Rules and Regulations through policies, standards and controls. Complete periodic Control Assessments, reviewing the design and operating effectiveness.
• Maintenance of a centralised repository of all risk policies and standards.
• Implementation of control lineage processes, responsible for approving controls mapped to control requirements within polices and standards.

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 escalate 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.