Head of Advisory - Financial Crime

Job Description

About Barclays Barclays is a transatlantic consumer, corporate and investment bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in our two home markets of the UK and the US. Ourgoal is to become the bank of choice by providing superior services to customers and clients and supporting our stakeholders via a commercially successful business that generates long-term sustainable returns. Our two clearly defined divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, provide diversification by business line, geography and customer, enhancing financial resilience and helping to contribute to the delivery of consistent returns through the businesscycle. We have a strong core business with exciting prospects, well positioned to deliver long-term value for our shareholders. The businesses are supported by The Group Service Company. This delivers critical infrastructure services and enhances operationalcontinuity for our business units, it is a centre of excellence for services required by the business, such as fraud management and cyber security, reducing duplication and promoting best practice across our businesses. Consistent with the objective of delivering long-term sustainable value for all our stakeholders, we have developed our Shared Growth Ambition - our approach to citizenship and the sustainability of the business model we operate. The aim is to make decisionsand do business that provides our clients and customers, and the communities which we serve, with access to a prosperous future. The delivery of our strategy is underpinned by the energy, commitment and passion of our people, and we are clear on our common purpose: creating opportunities to rise. We are a company of opportunity makers working together to help people rise - customers,clients, colleagues and society. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law. Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager. ------------------We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds. About Financial Crime Execution The CIB Financial Crime Execution (CIB FCE) team manages all elements of the financial crime agenda within the Front Office. The team works across a global footprint and is responsible for driving the financial crime goals and objectives of the bank withinthe relevant business units, working on helping to mitigate the risks of products and services being abused for the purposes of money laundering, terrorism financing, or other financial crime. The CIB FCE remit covers Investment Banking, Global Markets, UK Corporate Banking as well as International Corporate Banking within Investment Banking. The emphasis is on execution of the policies and standards put in place by the Financial Crime Complianceteam within the second line of defence. Responsibilities include the day to day management of the financial crime agenda as it impacts the client lifecycle (onboarding, review and exit decisions) as well as oversight on behalf of the responsible executiveof the day to day controls and execution of risk appetite, with particular focus on good governance of high risk sector clients and special customer types. CIB FCE also ensure good oversight on driving continuous process improvement in the execution of risk control activities, which includes ensuring that relevant KRIs are met and working closely with colleagues in Financial Crime Compliance and in BX to managethe whole lifecycle of the customers interaction with the bank. CIB FCE is made of up four distinct teams: the Risk Assessment Unit, the Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) team, Governance & Control and Business Implementation. These teams are responsible for various elements of the lifecycle, such as subjective decision makingon financial crime processes as impacts individual clients (NOT exceptions to policy), the management of Client and Colleague experience, building towards Barclays being best in class for KYC and onboarding experience and the oversight of financial crimetraining for all front line staff and management of communications for the front line relating to the financial crime agenda. Compliance is a critical part of our business: changes to economic conditions and regulatory requirements make our compliance department a busy place. Many of our compliance team members work with senior business leaders, helping to keep Barclays up to datewith the latest thinking on control and regulation. Overall purpose of role Barclays seeks a Director within CIB Financial Crime Execution, based in the UK, who will support the front office business with expertise in financial crime policy and regulation across the investment banking, corporate banking and payments industries. Fundamental to the role will be an ability to actively contribute to and collaborate with counterparts in the wider organisation to achieve consistency and the sharing of knowledge. The successful candidate will also work very closely with other Complianceand Legal colleagues in order to deliver a coordinated approach that is proactive and preventive. The role will ensure that the CIB FCE team and the broader businesses that it supports has detailed knowledge and advice on a wide range of financial crime matters. The nature of the role requires a demonstrated ability to work effectively across a range ofstakeholders at all levels. Key Accountabilities Reporting into the CIB Head of Financial Crime Execution, the role holder will: