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Date live:
Jul. 10, 2025
Business Area:
Compliance
Area of Expertise:
Compliance
Reference Code:
JR-0000058691
Contract:
Permanent
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Explore locationAs a Senior Sanctions Escalations Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and maintaining Barclays’ sanctions framework. You will act as a central escalation point for complex sanctions queries, providing specialist guidance to internal teams and ensuring alignment with both Barclays’ internal standards and evolving international regulatory expectations. A key part of your role will involve maintaining sanctions policy documentation drafting, reviewing, and refreshing policies to ensure they remain robust, compliant, and fit for purpose.
You will also support governance processes and regulatory reporting, ensuring the bank meets its obligations with precision and integrity.
In this high-profile position, you will support the Head of Sanctions for the Investment Bank Advisory Team by advising on technically complex business initiatives and contributing to the design and effectiveness of the sanctions risk management framework. You will engage with industry bodies, monitor regulatory developments, and help shape responses to changes in the sanctions landscape. Your ability to build partnerships across Compliance, Risk, and Financial Crime teams will be essential, as will your experience in policy development and regulatory interpretation. This is a unique opportunity to influence the strategic direction of sanctions compliance within a global financial institution.
To be successful as a Senior Sanctions Escalations Manager, you should have experience with:
Sanctions Expertise – experience in sanctions advisory within a large financial institution.
Policy Development – ability to draft, review, and update regulatory and policy documents.
Regulatory Knowledge – Deep understanding of UK and international sanctions regimes.
Experience in regulatory reporting and governance processes.
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
Your role will be located form our London office.
Purpose of the role
To identify and conduct the appropriate analysis and due diligence on Sanctions alerts to ensure the appropriate action is taken against customers and payment activity as defined by the Sanctions Standards and Restricted Activity Matrix, ensuring that the organisation adheres to all applicable sanction’s laws and regulations and internal governance, such that client accounts are not held and transactions are not processed in breach of application laws and regulations.
Accountabilities
Vice President Expectations
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.