Financial Crime Data Lead

Join Barclays as a Financial Crime Data Lead. As a Financial Crime Data Lead, you’ll ensure adherence to Barclays’ data management standards within Financial Crime, focusing on Project Jeremiah and AML process transformation. You’ll lead data analysis, deliver business requirements, oversee data quality remediation, and provide data advisory services. A key aspect will be ensuring compliance with Barclays’ Data Strategy, Policy, and Standards while maintaining the accuracy and timeliness of core financial crime systems.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Data Lead, you should have:

• Knowledge of Financial Crime processes, such as Transaction Monitoring, Customer Screening, and Data Privacy.
• Experience in business analysis and successful project delivery in a data management environment.
• Proven ability to analyze complex data and deliver clear, actionable insights.
• Strong collaboration skills to work across diverse teams and geographies.
• Attention to detail and a strong commitment to data quality.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Markets or Investment Banking experience.
• Knowledge of data integration design strategies for internal and external customers.
• Expertise in data management, risk, and controls at a senior level within financial services.
• Regulatory experience (e.g., SEC, FINRA) or certifications like Lean Six Sigma or PRINCE.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

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

Purpose of the role

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.