Financial Crime Risk, Control & Transformation Oversight Advisor

Join us as an AVP Financial Crime Risk, Control & Transformation Oversight Advisor.  You will play a pivotal role in safeguarding the firm against financial crime. With your strategic oversight, you will help ensure products and services aren’t misused for money laundering, terrorism financing, or other illicit activities. You will lead risk assessments, guide control governance, and manage regulatory reporting with precision. Your ability to interpret complex data and present clear insights empowers senior stakeholders to make informed decisions. You will thrive in dynamic environments, collaborate across diverse teams, and bring a forward-thinking mindset to every challenge. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact in financial crime risk management, this role is built for you.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Risk, Control & Transformation Oversight Advisor you must have:

-A strong foundation in Financial Crime or Compliance oversight, with hands-on experience in control and governance reporting.

-Experienced working with stakeholders at all levels and skilled in presenting insights through Excel, PowerPoint, and BI/MI tools.

-In depth understanding how to track and interpret KPIs and SLAs, and you know how to turn data into decisions.

-Experience with internal systems and Issue resolution or oversight to help maintain operational integrity helps you maintain operational integrity, and you’re comfortable preparing governance packs that support strategic conversations.

-The ability to work flexibly in a dynamic and fast past regulatory environment.

Location: Glasgow with 3 anchor days in the office.

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.

Overall purpose of role

The purpose of this role is to contribute to effective oversight of the firm’s compliance to Financial Crime risk management. Ensuring the business effectively mitigate the risks of products and services being abused for the purposes of money laundering, terrorism financing, or other financial crime.  This role provides strategic oversight across Financial Crime through the facilitation and oversight of the annual risk assessment cycle, control governance, issues management and adherence to regulatory reporting requirements.

Key Accountabilities

• The role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities across Financial Crime oversight, MI reporting, risk assessment, and control governance. Key deliverables include:

• Producing weekly and monthly reports on overdue, new and coming-due issues for BOC BU Directors, including horizon scanning packs and stakeholder coordination for issue materiality reviews and new issue forums.

• Providing Check & Challenge on data across a number of key business processes including Key Indicator submission, issue accuracy and annual organisational risk ratings.   

• Creating and maintaining dashboards and slide packs that track open issues, breaches of standards and trends across the Financial Crime lifecycle. 

• Reviewing and approving control amendments submitted via Sentinel and participating in governance forums such as the CSO Control Gaps and Enhancements Monthly Governance Forum.

• Supporting the delivery of Local Uplifts across jurisdictions, including Business Readiness Assessments, stakeholder engagement, and documentation of uplift actions and controls.

• Supporting the One Risk Assessment (ORA) programme through weekly Design Authority and Working Group meetings, bi-weekly Scrum updates, and annual cycles of Inherent, Residual, and Controls Risk Assessments.

• Acting as a central point of contact for ORA-related operational support, stakeholder queries, and communications across 1LOD, 2LOD, and policy teams.

• Producing monthly dashboards across all BBPLC businesses covering reportable Key Indicators (KIs), including commentary on metrics outside tolerance and remediation steps.

• Leading the quarterly and annual REPCRIM submission to the FCA, including performance reviews and trend analysis.

• Overseeing the KI Tool, managing input and review queries, and approving data amendments to ensure data integrity and governance.

• Engaging with IFC Working Groups to shape proposed changes to Financial Crime KIs and attending monthly FCOM meetings to review business unit performance.

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.