Transactional Monitoring Financial Crime Governance Lead

Help Us Strengthen Our Financial Crime Controls – Use your knowledge to enhance oversight, protect our customers, and support a resilient control environment. In your role as Transactional Monitoring Financial Crime Governance Lead, you will help us drive governance activities within a highly regulated environment, ensuring we maintain good oversight, effective controls, and sound risk management practices. You’ll play a key part in establishing and sustaining control environments that align with regulatory expectations and our internal policies. In this Vice President role, you’ll work closely with teams across the organisation, you will help us coordinate issues, track remediation progress, and deliver clear, transparent reporting to our Transaction Monitoring Governance forums. You will also support the identification and assessment of emerging risks, ensuring they are escalated appropriately and addressed in a timely manner so we can protect the firm and our customers.

To be successful in your role as Transaction Monitoring Financial Crime Governance Lead, you should have:

• Experience in financial crimes, including exposure to regulatory requirements and governance expectations

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly engage and influence stakeholders at multiple levels

• Established project management experience, including coordinating deliverables across teams and managing timelines

• Direct experience in transaction monitoring, including alert review, issue identification, escalation, and interaction with governance or oversight forums

Other highly valued skills include:

• Prior experience working in transaction monitoring, including exposure to alerts, typologies, and governance or oversight processes

• Relevant certifications such as CAMS (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist) or other recognized AML / financial crime credentials

• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in ambiguous or evolving environments, demonstrating a drive to action mindset, adaptability, and a self-starter mindset

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in New York, NY.

Minimum Salary: $135,000.00

Maximum Salary: $200,000.00

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and consult on the bank’s internal controls framework and supporting policies and standards across the organisation, ensuring it is robust, effective, and aligned to the bank’s overall strategy and risk appetite.  

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of emerging and evolving risks across functions to understand their potential impact, and likelihood.
• Communication of the purpose, structure, and importance of the control framework to all relevant stakeholders, including senior management and audit.
• Support to the development and implementation of the bank's internal controls framework and principles tailored to the banks specific needs and risk profile including design, monitoring, and reporting initiatives  .
• Monitoring and maintenance of the control's frameworks, to ensure compliance and adjust and update as internal and external requirements change.
• Embedment of the control framework across the bank through cross collaboration, training sessions and awareness campaigns which fosters a culture of knowledge sharing and improvement in risk management and the importance of internal control effectiveness.

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.