PBWM Financial Crime MI

Financial Crime MI | Barclays | Glasgow

We are seeking a highly motivated and analytically minded individual to join our Financial Crime team as a Management Information (MI) Assistant Vice President (AVP). The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in producing clear, consistent, and value-adding MI and data insights to support robust risk management in line with regulatory expectations, group frameworks, and business strategy.

This role demands a combination of technical expertise, data analytics capability, and a strong understanding of financial crime risk management. You will be responsible for transforming complex datasets into actionable insights, identifying patterns, and making recommendations that drive decision-making and strengthen the control environment. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the organisation, using your expertise to identify opportunities for innovation, automation, and continuous improvement in financial crime monitoring and controls.

Working within the 1st line of defence, the successful candidate will contribute to a broad range of financial crime risk areas, such as Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC), Anti-Tax Evasion Facilitation (ATEF), Know Your Client (KYC), and risk appetite frameworks. You will combine your analytical skillset with effective stakeholder engagement to influence outcomes, support governance, and enhance oversight of high-risk clients and related processes.

Essential Skills / Basic Qualifications

• Proven experience working with data and MI, including extraction, formatting, and analysis.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to prioritise, maintain thoroughness, and meet deadlines.
• Good time management with a proactive approach to planning and organising workload.
• Ability to take direction well while also working independently as a self-starter.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present insights clearly to stakeholders.
• Proficiency in PC literacy and relevant software tools.

Desirable Skills / Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a risk/control, quality control, or audit environment, with the ability to interpret risk, compliance, and operational procedures.
• Strong knowledge and experience of financial crime regulation and related policies, standards, and procedures.
• Understanding of Private Banking and/or Wealth Management businesses.
• Familiarity with financial crime transformation programmes and risk methodology frameworks.

This role is based in Glasgow.

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.

Purpose of the role

To implement data quality process and procedures, ensuring that data is reliable and trustworthy, then extract actionable insights from it to help the organisation improve its operation, and optimise resources. 

Accountabilities

• Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification.
• Execution of data cleansing and transformation tasks to prepare data for analysis.
• Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
• Development and application of advanced analytical techniques, including machine learning and AI, to solve complex business problems.
• Documentation of data quality findings and recommendations for improvement.

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.