Treasury Business Oversight Compliance

As a Vice President in Treasury Business Oversight Compliance, you will play a critical role in safeguarding the integrity of financial operations by identifying and assessing compliance and reputation risks across business activities, systems, and processes. You will engage with and advise senior business stakeholders on compliance-related matters, including with respect to the management and effective remediation of any identified compliance or reputation risks/issues.

You will contribute to the implementation of compliance policies aligned with global regulatory standards and ensure internal frameworks meet jurisdictional requirements. Collaborating closely with the First Line of Defence, Legal, and Risk teams, you will foster a unified approach to risk management and compliance oversight.

In this role, you will contribute to strategic planning, policy development, and continuous improvement initiatives. As a subject matter expert, you will guide others, influence cross-functional operations, and support the organisation’s control and governance agenda.

The successful candidate must have:

• Regulatory Expertise: You bring a strong understanding of technical regulations and compliance frameworks, enabling you to navigate complex regulatory environments with confidence and precision.

• Analytical Thinking: You apply structured, data-driven analysis to identify trends, assess risks, and support sound decision-making across compliance and business oversight functions.

• Attention to Detail: You demonstrate a meticulous approach to reviewing transactions, documentation, and processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and adherence to regulatory standards, as well as applicable Barclays Policy/Standard requirements.

• Problem Solving Skills: You have strong problem-solving skills and a demonstrated ability to take initiative, work independently and critically identify and analyse issues associated with sophisticated products and transactions

• Strong Stakeholder Management Skills: You develop and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with both key business stakeholders and colleagues from other functions, which supports your ability to function as a trusted compliance advisor and to effectively drive required issue remediation actions through to resolution.  You also have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to successfully convey sensitive or difficult information

Other highly valued skills to have:

• Tax Knowledge: A foundational understanding of tax principles and their implications within financial services enhances your ability to assess compliance and reputation risks holistically.

• Legal and/or Compliance Acumen: A background in legal or compliance studies or experience in legal, compliance or other control function environments supports your ability to interpret regulatory requirements. Contribute to policy development, provide solutions and check and challenge business stakeholders.

• Transaction Review Experience: Familiarity with reviewing financial transactions for compliance and reputation risk indicators strengthens your ability to detect potential issues or areas of concern and ensure alignment with both regulatory and Barclays Policy/Standard requirements.

This role is based in London.

You may be assessed on 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.

Purpose of the role

To provide data-led expert oversight and check and challenge on business and compliance matters to evidence that the organisation is operating in a compliance with Barclays legal, regulatory and ethical responsibilities. 

Accountabilities

• Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems to.
• Identification and investigation of potential market abuse, including but not limited to, Insider Dealing, Unlawful Disclosure, Market Manipulation or Anti-Competitive Conduct.
• Conduct investigation of compliance risk events or breaches. Oversight and check and challenge of corrective actions and preventative measures to avoid future occurrences.
• Implementation of compliance policies and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and ensuring that the bank’s internal policies are aligned with international standards, including jurisdictional requirements.
• Collaboration with 1LOD, other relevant Compliance teams and legal, and relevant risk management functions to facilitate a comprehensive approach to compliance and risk management.
• Identification, investigation and oversight of potential money laundering, terrorist financing or other financial crime.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.