Financial Crime Advisory Manager

Financial Crime Advisory Manager

Join us as a Financial Crime Advisory Manager where you will be working in the CIB Financial Crime Execution team, based in the UK, to report to the Senior Financial Crime Manager, who will support the front office business with their expertise in financial crime policy and regulation across the Barclaycard Payments (issuing and acquiring) business.

The primary duties of this role will be to support the Advisory and Policy Senior Manager and the Head of the function to deliver detailed advice and guidance to the Barclaycards payments business and to the wider business in respect of anti-money laundering, sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption. This will involve working closely with operational teams and supporting complex reviews, assessments, and investigations with expert staff.

Day to day could involve giving advice to teams preparing financial crime risk management processes, supporting business change initiatives, overseeing the performance of financial crime risk management functions, supporting new product approval processes, reviewing AML controls, giving advice on live CDD/EDD or investigations cases to support the best outcomes for Barclays.

The skills we find make for great AVPs in our financial crime advisory and policy function are the ability to make connections with colleagues in challenging circumstances, the ability to take in a lot of information in a short space of time, understand the relevant risks and support explaining those to non-expert audiences under pressure, a good understanding of how enterprise AML and sanctions functions are meant to work, and a gift for clarity in communication.

Essential Skills:

• Experience in Financial Crime in a global financial institution.
• Strong technical knowledge of financial crime risk management frameworks.
• Experience of working in complex matrix structure that requires strong stakeholder management.
• Strong verbal and written communication, presentation, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Strong stakeholder management at Senior Executive Committee level with ability to create and maintain highly engaging relationships, challenging the status quo, and driving strategic, innovative, and competitive solutions.
• Outstanding ability to effectively prioritise changing business needs and drive results with a diverse and inclusive style, which promotes advocacy.

Desired Skills:

• Recognized Financial Crime/ Anti-Money Laundering risk management qualification or equivalent - e.g., ACAMS, IRM, CIIA, ICA, etc.
• Experience supporting strategic direction incorporating a values-aligned performance culture.
• Experience focusing on developing and implementing consistent risk and control global frameworks within a financial organization.
• Skilful coordination in working across a wide range of stakeholders both within and beyond the function, seeking feedback from the business about effectiveness of risk and controls.
• An ethical track record with proof of values and behaviours in action, consistent with Barclays stated Purpose and Values.
• Ability to deal with high levels of ambiguity and simplify outputs and recommendations.
• Comfortable in fast growing and complex environments and ability to move effortlessly between strategic topics to day-to-day regulatory risks.

Purpose of the Role

To provide oversight of prudential regulatory compliance across in relation to our advanced Model permissions and 2nd LoD review and challenge of regulatory rule that impact regulatory capital and liquidity returns.

Accountabilities

• Advising on Regulations; owning the interpretation of specific parts of the Prudential Rulebook, and escalation for queries relating to prudential regulatory compliance.
• Communication of key Regulatory themes to senior Risk management including:
  • Concerns raised by regulators
  • Themes and areas of focus arising through meetings and communications
  • Guidance on regulator expectations
• Management of internal governance for adherence to regulatory permissions through oversight of Risk owned Permissions and maintenance of a central Permissions library.
• Coordination, review and challenge of the Model and Rating System Applications/Notifications; Drives delivery of certain Risk-led regulatory deliverables, providing robust review and challenge of constituent parts provided by internal stakeholders.
• Provision of comprehensive, accurate and consistent information to Regulatory supervision teams, supporting Risk in providing transparent communication with regulators via face to face meetings, regulatory letters or applications; and tracking and delivering commitments to regulators.

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.