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Date live:
Apr. 22, 2026
Business Area:
International Corporate Banking
Area of Expertise:
Legal
Reference Code:
JR-0000105530
Contract:
Permanent
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Join us at Barclays as an Investment Banking Financial Crime Advisory where you will be responsible for supporting and executing First Line Financial Crime program across Banking, Markets and the International Corporate Bank.
This role will work closely with the business, the second- and third-line stakeholders, to ensure the business is compliant with all internal Financial Crime standards, policies, procedures and applicable laws and regulations.
As part of Barclays Europe Financial Crime Execution Team, you will be responsible for executing the strategic direction of the Financial Crime program in Europe and performing advisory, governance and other oversight responsibilities.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
Experience in Financial Crime risks and regulation (Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, Sanction and Anti-Bribery & Corruption).
Ability to use financial crime tools and analytical results to identify risk patterns, anomalies, and control gaps.
Effectively address second line feedback and challenges to the risk and controls strategy implementation.
Experience to take risk decisions, define action plans, implement control enhancements, and manage escalation for senior management and/or governance and oversight forums.
Desirable skills include:
Strong capacity to analyse, summarise, and communicate effectively
Risk management judgment, ability to make risk-based decisions that balance regulatory integrity with operational practicality to drive global consistency
Ownership mindset with the aim to resolve issues, remove blockers, and maintain execution pace across multiple initiatives.
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 located in Paris, Frankfurt or Dublin.
Purpose of the role
To ensure that the institution’s activities are conducted in compliance with applicable financial crime laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with its activities.
Accountabilities
- Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance.
- Legal advice and support to the business on financial crime laws, regulations, and rules, including anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) laws and regulations.
- Support other legal teams in representation, of the bank in legal proceedings that raise financial crime issues, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
- Advising on financial crime compliance policies and procedures including to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws and regulations that may impact the bank's financial crime compliance practices.
- To support Compliance, contributing to and delivering training to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to financial crime.
- Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders 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.
