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Date live: Jul. 25, 2025

Business Area: Wholesale Onboarding and Group FCO

Area of Expertise: Change

Reference Code: JR-0000059550

Contract: Permanent

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. You will be looking at the entire end to end systems, controls and processes and identify potential enhancements to the control landscape.

The Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio is a multi-faceted Financial Crime programme of change delivered via over 20 programmes to create a holistic, risk-based and effective Financial Crime environment, strengthen robustness and enhance automation of Financial Crime processes, develop and strengthen our skills and capabilities across all lines of defence and empower our partners, colleagues and customers to identify and prevent Financial Crime by raising awareness of the risks. 

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

  • Deep Knowledge in Financial Crime Regulations and Typologies - In-depth knowledge of UK Anti Money Laundering (AML) regulations, financial crime risks and typologies. You will need an 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.
  • Programme Collaboration and Influence - Experience working within or alongside delivery teams to shape financial crime solutions. Ability to influence design decisions and advocate for risk-based approaches within programme and product lifecycles.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

  • Broader Regulatory and Domain Knowledge - Familiarity with AML requirements across multiple jurisdictions and 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.
  • Regulatory Engagement and/or Remediation - Awareness of regulatory expectations related to traceability, evidencing and auditability of control design.
  • Change Management and Process Design - Experience supporting large-scale transformations or control design initiatives from a Compliance and/or Business Unit lens.

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.

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