BBPLC TM Correspondent Banking Subject Matter Expert

Join us at Barclays as a BBPLC TM Correspondent Banking Subject Matter Expert. In this role, you will act as a subject matter expert within Correspondent Banking, supporting Transaction Monitoring (TM) and wider Financial Crime functions to deliver robust, risk-sensitive investigation outcomes in line with Barclays policies, standards, and global regulatory expectations. You will ensure effective oversight of correspondent banking activity, enhance detection of financial crime risks, and drive continuous improvement across monitoring, investigations, and control frameworks.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders across the bank, including Compliance, TM Operations, FCC Advisory, Product, and front-office teams, to ensure correspondent banking risks are well understood and appropriately managed. This role demands strong analytical skills, an ownership mindset, and the ability to manage complex investigations while influencing change across processes and controls. Additionally, this role will support with training and development within the team.

To be successful as a Correspondent Banking SME you should have:

• Proven expertise in correspondent banking and financial crime risk management.

• Strong understanding of transaction monitoring systems, typologies, and regulatory expectations.

• Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Some other highly valued skills/experience include:

• Knowledge of nested relationships, shell banks, U-turn transactions, and other correspondent banking typologies.

• Experience in model calibration, rule tuning, and threshold setting for TM scenarios.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and change delivery in financial crime environments.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the 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 Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To support business areas with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution. 

Accountabilities

• Support various business areas with day-to-day initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate operational processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations in operational processes.
• Development and implementation of operational procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on operational performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in banking operations.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and 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.