Vice President - Business Oversight Compliance - Transaction Banking

Step into your next role as a VP - Business Oversight Compliance - Transaction Banking where you will support the transaction banking local build in Singapore and Hong Kong. This role is critical in ensuring the bank’s transaction banking products and services comply with regulatory requirements and internal policies, while supporting business growth across the region.

In this role you will provide support to identification and management of compliance risks, trainings and ongoing advice and check and challenge. This is a great opportunity to be part of a dynamic team driving compliance excellence in a fast-evolving transaction banking landscape and work closely with senior leadership and shape strategic compliance initiatives

Key Responsibilities include

• Providing day-to-day advice on compliance, conduct and reputational risks, including advice on Compliance Policy and Standards and related regulations for the Transaction banking business in APAC in accordance to our Business Oversight Compliance Target Operating Model.
• Providing technical advisory in relation to regulatory information request, incident reporting and supporting any regulatory inspection and remediation.
• Provide a high standard of conduct and reputational risk assessment and management to the Singapore Transaction Banking business. Provide timely, clear and technically sound advice, check and challenge where necessary, demonstrate prudence and sound judgement and report and escalate conduct and reputational risks in a clear and timely manner.
• Identify and manage internal stakeholders in the three lines of defence and be proactive and responsive in your engagement and collaboration. Identify and manage external stakeholders, representing Barclays in a professional manner. Cultivate relationships such that they are mutually beneficial.
• Remain aware of internal, industry and regulatory developments and take steps to ensure that your technical, sector and market knowledge is up to date, and work with business and/or project teams to interpret their impact and support their implementation.
• Reviewing product documentation and marketing materials and providing guidance on product and service development, launches and modifications, as well as ensuring a robust product governance environment through attendance at internal governance meetings and working groups.
• Developing and delivering training on relevant conduct risk topics to the business.
• Carrying out periodic Compliance Risk reviews/verification checks of processes and controls in these teams to ensure adherence Compliance Risk Standards.
• Represent compliance in key control and governance forum
• Interacting with relevant industry bodies on rules and regulations.

To be successful in the role, the role , you should have  the following:

Essential skills/ Basic Qualifications

• Compliance professional with previous Corporate Bank experience, ideally within a regulated firm in Singapore
• Sound and demonstrable knowledge of Singapore or Hong Kong regulatory and financial services environment and the spectrum of financial products used by the Corporate Bank (including Transaction banking)
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to engage front office, operations, and regulator
• Ability to work independently and influence across functions.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to multi-task and prioritise accordingly
• Post graduate degree will be preferred
• Knowledge of key global and/or APAC regulatory rules and regulations
• Pragmatic in problem-solving, adopting a flexible, consultative work style

The Role is based in Singapore

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success of the role including job-specific technical skills and interpersonal skills.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific, and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time

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.