Financial Crime Data Lead

Data Lead - Financial Crime

As a Data Lead within a team of data partners and analysts, you will be responsible for ensuring adherence to Barclays’ data management standards in the area of Financial Crime, specifically focusing on Project Jeremiah and the transformation of end-to-end AML processes. This role requires strong project delivery experience and a willingness to investigate business challenges in detail across data sets, operational processes, business controls, and applications. You will lead detailed data analysis, deliver business requirements, and oversee data quality remediation, aiming to provide best-in-class data advisory services to the Financial Crime project.

You will also need to develop a strong understanding of data governance standards within Barclays, sustaining and strengthening the Control Environment, and ensuring adherence to the Group Data Strategy, Policy, and Standards. Your key accountabilities will include ensuring that data received into core financial crime systems is accurate, complete, and timely, meeting the Group’s required standards. You will manage data quality as a core component of the overall data compliance and architecture framework, driving end-to-end management of data quality uplift activities.

Key Skills and Experience

• Understanding of Financial Crime Processes (onboarding, Transaction Monitoring, Customer Screening, Data Privacy, etc).
• A broad and deep knowledge of technologies (including infrastructure technologies) that are used by financial service providers.
• Experience in business analysis within a data management capability.
• Demonstrable track record of successful project and change delivery whilst dealing with competing priorities.
• Dedicated team player who is results-oriented with proven and effective leadership and line management.
• Strong collaboration skills to be able to engage, influence and work across different geographies with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience in analysing data to draw business relevant conclusions and summarising succinctly to stakeholders.
• Business/Data analysis and storytelling methods to present complex data issues in a simple and engaging manner.
• Passion for and commitment to ensure data quality; meticulous attention to detail.

Additional Valued Skills

• Markets or Investment Banking experience.
• Exposure to data integration design strategies both for internal and external customer usage.
• Data management, risk and controls within a financial services organisation, at a senior level.
• Delivery within a regulatory environment e.g. SEC, FINRA etc.
• Process improvement or Lean Six Sigma certification.
• Project Management qualification (e.g. PRINCE, PMI).
• Excellent communicator, both in written reports and verbal briefings, and excellent stakeholder management skills.

Role Purpose

To enable effective data governance, risk management, and compliance within the bank, acting as a liaison between business units and the Data & Records Management (DRM) function, translating business needs into actionable strategies and ensuring efficient implementation of DRM.

Accountabilities

• Partnership with the local business unit to ensure successful implementation of data & records governance frameworks as appropriate to the needs of the business unit.
• Provision of guidance and support on records classification, retention, storage, retrieval, and disposal to business units.
• Monitoring local data quality and records metrics and identify areas for improvement.
• Identification of opportunities for data improvement and optimisation.
• Partnership with the relevant business unit to support their data priorities and ensure appropriate decisions related to data & records are embedded in their BAU decision making and change programs.

Vice President Expectations

• 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.