Financial Crime Risk Manager

Join us as a Financial Crime Risk Manager at Barclays where you will help shape the future of banking by operate within the 1st Line Retail Financial Crime Frameworks Team, responsible for the design and operation of controls that protect over 20 million customers. The role focuses on designing, enhancing, and maintaining the financial crime strategy and associated framework documentation that underpin the bank’s approach to mitigating financial crime risk. You will contribute to shaping and articulating the financial crime risk appetite for Retail Banking, supporting the design and continuous improvement of the financial crime operating model. They will also ensure that control design and documentation align with internal policy requirements, second line of defence expectations, and regulatory best practice.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Risk Manager, you must have:

• Good working knowledge of Financial Crime Risk Management frameworks – Familiarity with key concepts such as Financial Crime risk appetite , risk rating, and policy governance, with the ability to assess financial crime threats and recommend appropriate control responses in a Retail Banking context.
• Excellent analytical and written communication skills - Ability to interpret regulatory and policy requirements and translate them into clear, actionable strategy and frameworks documentation for Retail Banking.
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills - Comfortable engaging (and working collaboratively) with senior stakeholders across 1LOD and 2LOD, with the ability to challenge constructively and drive consensus.
• Experience in drafting or owning Financial Crime policies or standards - Especially beneficial if you have worked on artefacts and owned policy-related/strategy/procedure artefacts.
• Knowledge of regulatory expectations and Regulatory reviews - Familiarity with FCA and Policy expectations and experience contributing to regulatory responses or remediation programmes
• Data analysis and insight generation- Ability to interpret and present financial and customer data to identify trends, assess risk exposure to support decision-making.

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 London, Northampton, Manchester or Glasgow.

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.

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.