Business Oversight Compliance BPL - VP

Purpose of the role: 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.

Accountabilities:

• 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.

Vice President Expectations:

• 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.

Leadership Behaviours:

• Listen and be authentic
• Energise and inspire
• Align across the enterprise
• Develop others

Role Context: Join Barclaycard Payments as a Business Oversight Compliance Vice President and play a pivotal role in helping a leading payments business grow safely, confidently and responsibly. In this high‑impact role, you will provide expert compliance oversight, shape practical guidance on policy, controls and regulatory expectations, and support smart commercial decisions in an evolving environment. You will review business design and operations, advise on regulatory requirements, support remediation, deliver targeted training and undertake focused monitoring to test that controls are effective and sustainable. This is an exciting opportunity to influence outcomes, build trusted relationships and make a visible contribution to an ambitious business.

To be successful as a Business Oversight Compliance VP, you should have:

• Second line of defence experience with a comprehensive understanding of a Compliance function and its role, Compliance risks and an ability to help and influence the design and implementation of new Compliance processes.
• Direct experience and practical knowledge of applicable payment products, market and regulations preferred to be able to provide technical direction, training, oversight and support to the business.
• An ability to deal with high levels of organisational and business change, including driving requirements and making recommendations.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to understand the business and regulatory environment and use influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
• Strong communication, writing and presentational skills and digital savvy to be able to deliver messages across the organisation, through different channels and to any audience.
• Effective execution skills to proactively set compliance actions and deadlines, monitor progress and escalate as needed to deliver on time.

Benefits and Investment: This role can be located in London or Northampton. Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients. In April 2025, we announced a long‑term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients. Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve‑outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long‑term growth. Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance‑linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long‑term commitment to the transformation. Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years.

Why Join Us: Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self‑disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.