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Financial Crime Transformation Lead

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Job Description:

Compliance is a broad, multidisciplinary function at Barclays that oversees our global business operations. We ensure the bank lives its values, meets regulatory requirements, and follows our codes of conduct. Compliance helps manage financial affairs safely, prevents crime, and eliminates bad practices, acting as guardians for customers, colleagues, assets, shareholders, and reputation. This vital, challenging, and rewarding role protects customers, defends our reputation, and defines our business practices. Without Compliance, Barclays could not operate.

Job Responsibility:

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

Requirements:

  • Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive
What we offer:
  • Hybrid working
  • Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed 'anchor' days
  • Supportive and inclusive culture and environment
  • Commitment to flexible working arrangements
  • Encouragement to embrace mobility and explore operations to build career
  • Opportunity to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 07, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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