Job Description

Join us to lead PBWM Financial Crime Risk Strategy & Transformation within our Private Bank and Wealth Management (PBWM) team based in London.

The successful candidate will be working directly to support the Global Head of PBWM Financial Crime Risk, providing expert input, direction and delivery across the Financial Crime agenda. This will include an ongoing need to define and optimise the Financial Crime Strategy for PBWM to ensure the control environment becomes one of continuous improvement, and leading on the Transformation activity required across the business and wider organisation to implement and maintain this.

The Financial Crime Risk team sit within the business and have presence across global locations, supporting the Front Office throughout the client lifecycle (from onboarding to exit), strengthening control design to meet growing internal and external expectations, overseeing the control environment working with business and functional partners, and performing risk and issue management. The role will include driving strategic initiatives, managing stakeholders and influencing both within and outside of the PBWM business – with a key need to coordinate more closely across the Enterprise. Governance reporting and management escalations, engaging with partners within Functions, and supporting the continued development of the team will also be key activities. To be successful in this role you must be able to demonstrate a strategic mindset, have a determination to continually improve every aspect of the Financial Crime control environment, be relentlessly focused on delivery, and show resilience and flexibility.

The role will be suitable for someone with an extensive Financial Crime background and recent working experience in strategy or transformation roles in a complex global organisation. Private Bank business knowledge is also highly desirable. An ability to take responsibility and accountability for decision making, evidenced through clear reporting and communication in order to manage risk, strengthen controls and support the business in achieving strategic goals will be required. Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work with a variety of stakeholders at all levels will also be important, including building relationships with key functional teams and other business divisions across Barclays. The role will require an ability to coordinate across the global geographies and business lines to ensure the appropriate consistency in controls and strategic direction, with synergies identified and explored to strengthen the Group position. This role offers flexibility and a dynamic portfolio of work covering multiple aspects of the PBWM business through the lens of Financial Crime Risk.

The role will also provide senior management support, including a need to represent PBWM in Exec-level settings and in Groupwide programmes. While there may not be direct people leadership responsibility initially, the successful candidate will be expected to support colleagues in location and across the Global teams through direct engagement and feedback. Experience of people leadership, both in-location and remotely, is preferred.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

Extensive Financial Crime background in global or complex financial organisations, operating under heightened regulatory scrutiny.
Demonstrable experience in Financial Crime strategy, transformation or change programmes with associated delivery outcomes.
Highly effective communicator with the ability to influence and operate credibly across all levels, from front‑line teams to senior management and external stakeholders.
Strong organisational capability, written communication skills and ability to manage competing priorities across wide portfolios of work.
Acts with integrity, confidence and accountability in managing Financial Crime risk and transformation.

Desirable Skills/Preferred Qualification:

Private Bank or Wealth Management business knowledge
People leadership experience, both in-location and remotely, supporting and developing talent.
Relevant external qualifications

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

Director Expectations

To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.