Financial Crime Risk Execution

This is a 12 month secondment.

Step into a role in Financial crime execution and provide risk management support and guidance to the business areas operating out of the Crown Dependencies. Areas of expertise and advice will include areas such as Customer Due Diligence (CDD), anti-money laundering and the Combating Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT)  supporting the Fraud Team in delivering Thematic awareness and ensuring that relative stakeholders have oversight of Operational Risk activity, so ensuring that all key objectives are met and therefore supporting internal assurance  to business management as well as externally to areas such as Financial Crime, Compliance and Internal Audit. The role holder will provide support in ensuring the business’ core AML/CFT risk objectives are met, managing scheduled activity, specific risk situations, providing management information, cascading new AML/CFT related risk policies and procedures and supporting staff in the business with AML/CFT related training and managing their own risk responsibilities.

Essential Skills:

• Interpersonal and stakeholder management including verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate and communicate technical information in a user friendly manner.

• Role model in the management and leadership of people.

• High levels of integrity and a strong influencer.       

Desirable Skills:

• Developing and maintaining appropriate Risk, Governance & Control frameworks.

• Building positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders and regulators.

• Dealing with complex business analysis and decision-making, demonstrating intellectual and analytical capability. 

• Working in a large, challenging and complex matrix organisation.

Jersey

Purpose of the role

To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.  

Accountabilities

• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

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.