Principal Onboarding Manager

Join us as a Principal Onboarding Manager. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and develop innovative solutions. The Principal Onboarding group operates within the investment banking division, delivering high-touch onboarding support for both internal and external stakeholders. This team facilitates onboarding requests for new markets entities and new products as principal, ensuring requests are fully completed in our onboarding systems and are ready to trade. You’ll play a key role in maintaining operational excellence by ensuring precision in documentation, client data, and regulatory compliance. The team collaborates globally, supporting investment banking and market desks across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

To be successful as a Principal Onboarding Manager, you should have:

• Extensive experience in onboarding, client lifecycle management, KYC, or regulatory compliance, particularly in client-facing or service-oriented environments

• Proven ability to manage high volumes of complex tasks, with a sharp focus on prioritization, organization, and timely execution

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to convey information clearly, professionally, and with impact across diverse audiences

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Broad knowledge across AML/KYC, regulatory frameworks, credit, legal, operations, and technology, supporting the ability to identify inefficiencies and drive process enhancements

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, especially Excel and Outlook, to manage workflows and communicate effectively

• Familiarity with regulatory obligations in derivatives trading, including ISDA documentation and compliance with global standards such as Dodd-Frank and EMIR, contributing to effective risk and control management

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, NJ.

Minimum Salary: $70,000

Maximum Salary: $135,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

Purpose of the role

To support Wholesale Onboarding with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, and issue resolution. 

Accountabilities

• Support with day-to-day Wholesale Onboarding initiatives including KYC processing, reviewing (which can include Quality Checking), reporting, trading and issue resolution.
• Collaboration and engagement with clients/front office to gather Customer Due Diligence information/evidence in order to onboard or refresh a clients KYC in line with documented policy.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate Wholesale Onboarding processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations for change in Wholesale Onboarding processes.
• Development and implementation of Wholesale Onboarding procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on Wholesale Onboarding performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in Wholesale Onboarding.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve Wholesale Onboarding efficiency and effectiveness.

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.