BBPLC MLRO Office Lead

Join us at Barclays Bank PLC to support the MLRO in discharging responsibilities through governance, oversight and leading on key initiatives. The successful candidate will also represent the MLRO in key meetings in a delegate capacity as well as coordinate functional matters across the Leadership Team.

Essential Skills

• Creative and forward thinking, striving to improve and find solutions through effective innovation and ability to manage project and programmes of work end to end.
• Highly organised and structured with excellent written communications skills, with the ability to prioritise and manage competing deliverables for themselves and the team.
• Skilful co-ordination in working across a wide range of stakeholders both within and beyond the function.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to identify themes and trends from large volumes of data; aligned with financial crime risk management
• Have sufficient knowledge to be able to challenge risk-based judgements on all aspects of the Financial Crime Control Environment including, but not limited to, client portfolio risk, transaction monitoring risk mitigation strategies, framework and controls, risk assessments and regulatory responses.
• Driving outcomes-based focus through the businesses we oversee, ensuring businesses are adapting to evolving landscape and technologies to mitigate the evolving financial crime landscape.
• Lead ad-hoc projects, independently and or with the team which look to determine and assess current or historic client exposure.
• Drive regulatory responses to industry changes and investigations, ensuring accuracy and completeness in our responses.

Stakeholder Management & Leadership:

• Capable of building and maintaining productive, collaborative and positive working relationships with the colleagues in the first and second line of defence (other Financial Crime SMEs).  The individual will however need to a strike a careful balance and be comfortable in holding an independent yet and objective stance when necessary.  The individual should be comfortable in providing advice and challenge that will ultimately enable an appropriate and measured approach to the issue/case/risk at hand.
• Initiates early engagement with key stakeholders to ensure effective partnership with the business which includes openness to giving and receiving challenge at all levels. Provides guidance to the Business where collective action (where controls are allocated appropriately between the 1LOD controls with oversight from FC specialists) result in a stronger risk and control environment.
• Be comfortable in influencing a variety of stakeholders across 1LOD and 2LOD, utilising data insights to support their case.

Decision Making & Problem Solving Skills:

• Highly analytical with the ability to analyse large volumes of data and information to make a sophisticated and informed assessments of risk.
• Ability to operate and drive activity autonomously or collectively as a team. Be able to consider multiple options from different perspectives in order to identify pragmatic and effective solutions.
• Be confident and comfortable in articulating rationale and approach for decision making to senior stakeholders in a succinct and concise manner.

Purpose of the role

To enable the success of senior executives by helping navigate complex challenges, make informed decisions and deliver against their strategic objectives.

Accountabilities

• Strategic support to senior executives, such as the CEO or other top-level leaders including assistance in the development and execution of in year and multi-year business strategy, research, and analysis to support decision-making and act as delegate for the senior executive in specific situations.
• Management of Colleague engagement planning in line with the strategic direction, managing communication channels and ensuring effective coordination across different departments and teams.
• Management of key projects and strategic initiatives on behalf of senior executives, ensuring strategic projects are on track, monitoring of progress, and provision of regular updates to the executive team.
• Improvement of operational efficiency, alongside functional partners, within the organisation including the identification of areas for improvement, streamlining of processes, and implementation of consistently excellent best practices to enhance productivity and effectiveness.
• Development of performance reporting for key metrics that reinforce the strategic objectives of the division and support the external commitments made. Analyse and draw insight to drive performance. Involvement in aspects of financial analysis and budget management, including assistance in financial planning, forecasting, cost management and monitoring of financial performance against targets.
• Support to senior leadership to ensure appropriate resourcing across the business/function including planning and forecasting, partnering with HR to drive talent development and succession planning including the identification of high-potential employees, provision of mentorship and guidance, and support to leadership development and diversity initiatives.
• Support to the senior executive with risk and control oversight, escalation, crisis management and risk mitigation, support the development of contingency plans, coordination of responses to emergencies, and ensure business continuity.
• Implementation of a robust governance framework which supports the board of directors, executive forums and governance committees through the preparation of board materials, organisation of meetings, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors 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.

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.