PBWM Fin Crime Risk Manager

Join us as a PBWM Financial Crime Risk Manager and become part of a dynamic, high-impact team at the center of PBWM’s Financial Crime Risk function. In this role, you’ll be key to protecting the business from threats such as money laundering, bribery and corruption, tax evasion facilitation, and sanctions risk. Based in Jersey, you’ll represent the First Line of Defence locally, working closely with global colleagues to maintain a consistent financial crime control environment.

You’ll serve as a subject matter expert, supporting front office teams throughout the client lifecycle. Your work will involve establishing and maintaining governance frameworks and clear risk management standards, offering guidance and training to ensure compliance with both internal policies and external regulations. You’ll monitor key risk indicators and help improve financial crime controls, while collaborating with teams across Compliance, Shared Services, and the wider Barclays Group. You’ll also support the delivery of key financial crime projects and programmes that help strengthen controls and improve how risks are managed.

To be successful as a PBWM Financial Crime Risk Manager, you should bring:

• A deep understanding of financial crime risks and the regulatory landscape.
• Practical experience in governance, risk, or compliance within financial services.
• The ability to collaborate across teams and influence stakeholders at different levels.
• Clear communication skills and a sharp, structured approach to analysis.
• A thoughtful, improvement-oriented mindset with a focus on delivering meaningful outcomes.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Attention to detail and accuracy in reviewing information.
• Clear communication across different audiences.
• Critical thinking and sound judgment when assessing multi-layered situations.

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 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

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• 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.