Financial Crime Remediation and Implementation - VP

Join us as a "Financial Crime Remediation and Implementation - VP" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Financial Crime Remediation and Implementation, as well as job-specific skillsets.

We are looking for an experienced Financial Crime Remediation and Implementation Vice President to lead financial crime policy implementation and business readiness across the UK Corporate Bank. This is a high-impact role for someone who can turn regulatory expectations and internal standards into practical, sustainable business outcomes.

Working within Financial Crime Execution, you will partner with the business, Compliance, Operations, and service providers to deliver change in a controlled and effective way, while helping maintain a strong first line control environment.

The role suits someone with strong financial crime knowledge, excellent delivery discipline with a remediation focus, and the confidence to work across senior stakeholders.

To be successful as a "Financial Crime Remediation and Implementation - VP", you should have experience with:

Driving policy implementation:

• Lead end-to-end implementation of financial change and remediation across the business.

• Translate regulatory and internal requirements into clear business processes, controls, and governance.

• Support the design and embedding of risk-based control environments.

Assessing business change:

• Lead Business Readiness Assessments for policy changes, new products, and strategic initiatives.

• Assess impacts across processes, systems, controls, and data, identifying gaps and remediation actions.

• Provide clear, risk-based recommendations to support implementation decisions.

Overseeing execution and remediation:

• Oversee and support delivery of financial crime, remediation activity, and control enhancements.

• Track progress against policy implementation and regulatory commitments, escalating issues through governance forums where needed.

• Support lessons learned and continuous improvement following control or delivery issues.

Partnering across the organisation:

• Partner across Front Office, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and internal service providers to deliver consistent financial crime change.

• Build effective relationships and provide challenge to support sustainable risk outcomes.

Leading change delivery:

• Lead financial crime change initiatives from inception through to delivery.

• Manage plans, risks, dependencies, and reporting to senior management.

• Delivering changes to support SME process updates.

Personal attributes:

• Clear communicator who can turn complex requirements into practical actions.

• Structured, proactive, and delivery-focused.

• Comfortable balancing strategic oversight with detailed execution.

Essential experience:

• Strong knowledge of financial crime frameworks, including AML, sanctions, CDD, and transaction monitoring.

• SME knowledge in the Money Laundering Regulations/JMLSG.

• Experience in process and policy implementation, regulatory change, or remediation delivery.

• Strong project or programme management capability within complex organisations.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge at senior levels.

Desirable experience:

• Experience leading Business Readiness Assessments or similar impact assessments.

• Experience within Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, or Payments.

• Relevant certification such as CAMS, ICA, or equivalent.

This role will be based out of Gurugram.

Purpose of the role

To support the Risk Function in delivering it’s objective of safeguarding the bank's financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.

Accountabilities

• Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
• Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.

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.