Senior Financial Crime Advisory Training Manager (Gurugram Location)

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Financial Crime Advisory Training Manager Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

About Financial Crime & Fraud Advisory

The role of the team of policy experts for their respective area, first point of contact for all business support activities related to Policy, RCSA / FCRA oversight and completion, risk appetite decisions and education and training.

Overall purpose of role

The Economic Crime Education Awareness Leadwill produce and lead 1LOD Financial Crime ('FC') and Fraud Awareness, Training and Education Programme for Corporate Banking, this will include managing a team that will lead Economic Crime campaigns to train and educate our clients and colleagues. This role will evaluate the success of campaigns and training ensuring they reflect the latest business and industry threats.

Key Accountabilities

Lead, produce and manage 1LOD Financial Crime ('FC') training across FC and Fraud (Scams) education, awareness for Corporate Banking.

•Responsible for leading the overall training and communications activity aligned to Corporate Banking’s Economic Crime risks. These include delivering the Financial Crime, Fraud and Scams training and education plan for the business to clints and colleagues.

•Using insights and knowledge to produce effective communications to ensure senior leaders, internal and external stakeholders are briefed in relation to the latest threats, to gain buy in to support mitigation through budget, changes in process.

•Fully responsible for running the ongoing review of controls with regards to training materials as well as the identification, ratification and production of all training relating to Fraud and Financial Crime.

•Create and embed an impact assessment process to ensure that all tools available for risk mitigation are assessed for relevance before being added to the overall approach.

•Engage and align with change landing in the area, creating the opportunity to integrate Economic crime risk mitigation across Corporate Banking.

•Establish the team as the go to team for risk awareness, education and controls development. Nurture relationships across a large proportion of stakeholders internally and externally across compliance and risk management functions.

•Manage and lead with guidance and clear direction for controls oversight ensuring alignment to minimum requirements and constant evaluation of the control profile in 1LoD & Fraud.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

·Lead and maintain relationships across Financial Crime, Fraud and functional partners across all lines of defence and all levels of seniority.

·Act as an advisor to Financial Crime and their teams, to enable the facilitation of control management practices

·Develop and maintain excellent relationships with working groups across multiple teams and organisational units, to ensure achievement of common business goals

·Inspire and drive high performance amongst peers

·Demonstrate strong influencing skills

·Lead team to delivery key workstreams and support them individually through regular 121’s and coaching sessions

Decision-making and Problem Solving

This section should describe the extent and level to which the job requires evaluative judgement and analytical skills. Detail should be provided as to the type and complexity of problems and the impact the role has on developing or enhancing existing systems or processes.

 To be successful in this role as a “Senior Financial Crime Advisory Training Manager ", you should possess the following skillsets:

·Knowledge of Financial Crime and Fraud.

·Strong and well-practiced interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to operate at all levels throughout the organisation

·Proven clear and honed organisational skills

·Must be able to work autonomously with an aptitude for making sound decisions and escalating matters in a timely fashion

·Ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, using gained influencing skills with the assistance of clear and well-articulated data to present sound arguments

Some other highly valued skills include:

·Leadership Skills.

·Excellent Communication skills, high level of PowerPoint and Excel proficiency.

·ICA Diploma in relevant Financial Crime discipline.

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 is based in our Gurgaon office.

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.