Financial Crime Transformation Lead- 12 Month Contract/ Secondment) in Birmingham

Join us as a Financial Crime Transformation Lead where you will be a senior financial crime subject matter expert responsible for leading the business analysis and discovery for complex, multi-year financial crime change initiatives. You will ensure that financial crime change requirements are accurately captured, assessed, and delivered across multiple projects, with a particular focus on global regulatory alignment and operational impact throughout the end-to-end financial crime framework (including onboarding, ongoing due diligence, screening, suspicious activity reporting, investigations, and transaction monitoring as well as MI reporting & governance).

Operating at the intersection of business analysis and transformation, the Lead will drive the prioritisation, qualification, and successful delivery of financial crime change projects in the Investment Bank (IB).

• Lead business analysis & discovery: act as the senior SME for business analysis, ensuring robust, accurate, and actionable requirements are captured for all financial crime initiatives; ensure that all dependencies, risks and assumptions are captured early to set up delivery teams for success.
• Changes scoping & qualification: scope and define requirements for new and ongoing projects, rigorously assessing firm wide impacts; build business cases with clear and measurable outcomes that justify prioritisation and investment in change programmes.
• Global regulatory & operational alignment: work with the regulatory change lead and regional teams to align all change initiatives with the global regulatory standards (AML, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud) and ensure that those are translated into pragmatic and efficient operational solutions.
• Cross functional collaboration: partner effectively with business representatives, programme managers, product owners, compliance and data & technology teams to design, validate, and implement change solutions. Facilitate workshops and influence senior stakeholders to achieve consensus and drive tangible outcomes.
• Risk & issue management: proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks and issues associated with change programmes, ensuring dependencies are managed, and that programme integrity and compliance are maintained.
• Resource & financial management: Contribute to resource planning, budget management, and the efficient allocation of skills and capacity across projects, ensuring delivery of value and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Continuous Improvement & Change Management: Lead continuous improvement initiatives and ensure that change is delivered cohesively, with minimal disruption to business as usual activities.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Extensive experience in business analysis and transformation within financial crime, preferably in investment banking or high risk financial product areas.
• Deep subject matter expertise in the financial crime framework (onboarding, due diligence, screening, SARs, investigations, transaction monitoring, etc.) and solid understanding of global regulatory requirements (AML, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud).
• Proven ability to lead cross functional discovery and business analysis activities, ensuring operational and regulatory requirements are fully captured and translated into actionable change plans and clear outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience in building and qualifying business cases for complex change programmes, with a track record of influencing prioritisation and investment decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management, interpersonal, and communication skills, with the ability to operate and influence at all levels.
• Experience working in large, matrixed financial institutions and with regulatory change programmes.
• Familiarity with project management methodologies, and the ability to manage ambiguity and complexity.

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.

This role is located in London or Birmingham.

To provide data led expert oversight and check and challenge on business and compliance matters to evidence that the organisation is operating in compliance with Barclays legal, regulatory and ethical responsibilities.

• Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems.
• Identification and investigation of potential market abuse, including but not limited to, Insider Dealing, Unlawful Disclosure, Market Manipulation or Anti Competitive Conduct.
• Conduct investigation of compliance risk events or breaches.
• Oversight and check and challenge of corrective actions and preventative measures to avoid future occurrences.
• Implementation of compliance policies and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and ensuring that the bank's internal policies are aligned with international standards, including jurisdictional requirements.
• Collaboration with 1LOD, other relevant Compliance teams and legal, and relevant risk management functions to facilitate a comprehensive approach to compliance and risk management.
• Identification, investigation and oversight of potential money laundering, terrorist financing or other financial crime.

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escape breaches of policies/procedures. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.

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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions. 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.