Financial Crime Compliance Expert (Hub)

As a Financial Crime Compliance Expert (Design Hub), you will take a holistic view of the overall design of financial crime controls that we have in Barclays; looking at the entire end to end systems, controls and processes and identify potential enhancements to the control landscape.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Compliance Expert (Design Hub), you should have experience with:

Deep Knowledge in Financial Crime Regulations and Typologies-

• In-depth knowledge of UK AML regulations, financial crime risks and typologies.

• Up-to-date understanding of regulatory expectations and enforcement trends, with the ability to apply these practically during control design.

Control Design-

• Demonstrated ability to design effective financial crime controls across areas such as Customer Due Diligence, Screening and Transaction Monitoring.

• Evidence of embedding compliance by design principles within business and technology programmes.

• Robust understanding of how financial crime risks translate into systems and control requirements.

Programme Collaboration and Influence-

• Experience working within or alongside delivery teams to shape financial crime solutions.

• Able to influence design decisions and advocate for risk-based approaches within programme and product lifecycles.

• Effective communicator who can bridge technical and regulatory concepts for delivery and business stakeholders.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

Broader Regulatory and Domain Knowledge-

• Familiarity with AML requirements across multiple jurisdictions.

• Working knowledge of Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption (ABC) and related financial crime areas.

Financial Crime Technology-

• Understanding of how technologies such as screening tools, transaction monitoring platforms or machine learning models support control effectiveness.

• Experience contributing to the design or enhancement of tech-enabled financial crime controls.

Regulatory Engagement and/or Remediation-

• Awareness of regulatory expectations related to traceability, evidencing and auditability of control design.

• Exposure to remediation programmes or regulatory engagements.

Change Management and Process Design-

• Experience supporting large-scale transformations or control design initiatives from a Compliance and/or Business Unit lens.

• Ability to map and improve processes in ways that support risk mitigation and control effectiveness.

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.

This role can be based in either London or Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities. 

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

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.