FCS SME

Embark on a transformative journey as a Subject Matter Expert for Financial Crime Screening at Barclays, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future. In this role, you will be responsible for preventing financial crimes, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Join us in our mission to safeguard our business and customers from financial crime risks. With competitive benefits and opportunities for career advancement, Barclays is a great place to grow your career in the banking industry.

Key critical skills required for this role include:

• Financial crime compliance with regulations and risk management. Experience to prevent, detect and respond to illegal activities.

• In-depth knowledge of Anti-money laundering framework and regulation, customer due diligence and suspicious activity reporting.

• Know your customer screening, conduct customer screening against sanctions lists.

• Knowledge of sanctions screening, to conduct regular screening for transactions, customers and counterparties.

• Payment screening and monitoring, screen outgoing and incoming payments for potential matches with sanctioned individuals.

You may be assessed on key essential skills relevant to succeed in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based out of Noida.

Purpose of the role

To support Screening with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution, making decisions in line with comply with relevant regulatory and industry standards. 

Accountabilities

• Support with day-to-day screening initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution through lending technical expertise.
• Execution of screening checks on customers, transactions, and other activities to identify potential risks and comply with regulatory requirements.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate screening processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations for change in screening processes.
• Development and implementation of screening procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on screening performance.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in screening Services.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve screening efficiency and effectiveness.

Analyst Expectations

• To meet the needs of stakeholders/ customers through specialist advice and support
• Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard which will impact both the role itself and surrounding roles.
• Likely to have responsibility for specific processes within a team
• They may lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources. They supervise a team, allocate work requirements and coordinate team resources.
• 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 manage own workload, take responsibility for the implementation of systems and processes within own work area and participate on projects broader than direct team.
• Execute work requirements as identified in processes and procedures, collaborating with and impacting on the work of closely related teams.
• Check work of colleagues within team to meet internal and stakeholder requirements.
• Provide specialist advice and support pertaining to own work area.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how all teams in area contribute to the objectives of the broader sub-function, delivering impact on the work of collaborating teams.
• Continually develop awareness of the underlying principles and concepts on which the work within the area of responsibility is based, building upon administrative / operational expertise.
• Make judgements based on practise and previous experience.
• Assess the validity and applicability of previous or similar experiences and evaluate options under circumstances that are not covered by procedures.
• Communicate sensitive or difficult information to customers in areas related specifically to customer advice or day to day administrative requirements.
• Build relationships with stakeholders/ customers to identify and address their needs.

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.