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Join us as a Sanctions Specialist at Barclays, where you will be responsible for supporting the Sanctions function to drive the effective delivery, oversight, and risk management for sanctions alerts escalations. Your role will involve assessing and reviewing sanction risks in respect of alerts escalated to Sanctions Compliance. This covers all the business units across Barclays and supports in the delivery of the Financial Crime objectives.

Job Responsibility:

  • Supporting the Sanctions function to drive the effective delivery, oversight, and risk management for sanctions alerts escalations
  • Assessing and reviewing sanction risks in respect of alerts escalated to Sanctions Compliance
  • To identify and conduct the appropriate analysis and due diligence on Sanctions alerts to ensure the appropriate action is taken against customers and payment activity as defined by the Sanctions Standards and Restricted Activity Matrix
  • Understanding the objectives of the Global Sanctions Function and the control frameworks and embed a culture of compliance with sanctions
  • Revision of escalated cases and confirm a True Match in line with regulations/policy accurately and in a timely manner, feeding back on instances of incorrect escalation
  • Management and provision of guidance in the completion of complex sanctions investigations, ensuring that matters are correctly managed and follow appropriate escalation routes, while involving the relevant stakeholders early and fully
  • Due diligence on Payment Screening alerts to determine the appropriate treatment and next steps for the payment in line with documented procedures following the defined governance process and approvals as required
  • Escalation of Customer Screening True Matches to appropriate Business Aligned Sanctions Team for assessment
  • Identification of opportunities to drive efficiencies in the alert management process and feed these back to the appropriate team(s) to implement

Requirements:

  • Excellent understanding of OFAC, OFSI, EU, and UN sanctions laws, regulations, regulatory expectations, and industry best practice
  • Sound judgement, attention to detail and the ability and confidence to make business critical decisions
  • Self-confidence to articulate opinions in the face of contrary views, where necessary
  • Sound knowledge of SWIFT messages

Nice to have:

  • Experience of FircoSoft and or OWS
  • A background in sanctions or financial crime
  • A solid understanding of the Barclays Group/Business Units and its major customer/payments processing systems
  • Should be willing to support UK hours
What we offer:
  • Hybrid working
  • Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed 'anchor' days
  • Supportive and inclusive culture and environment
  • Flexible working arrangements can be discussed

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 03, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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