Director Financial Crime Transformation for Investment Bank

Purpose of the role: Financial Crime Transformation lead - enhancing an organization's financial crime risk management frameworks, designing technologies for customer onboarding, transaction monitoring and ongoing client risk management, and ensuring compliance with regulations related to financial crime.

Accountabilities:

• Lead the advancement and implementation of the Target Operating Model for financial crime.
• Design, progress and generate clear framework documents and product papers to formalise our controls.
• Review and challenge commentary provided by Operations Service Delivery Management, Risk Operations and Financial Crime to ensure the quality of delivery.
• Ensure an efficient flow of information across the organisation and across IB.
• Manage internal information requests from stakeholders including the business and the second line of defence.
• Help move team to design, risk management and oversight of outsourced financial crime controls, whilst keeping a lens on client experience, cost, and the move towards automation and machine learning where appropriate.
• Support the IFC program; Transformation lead is needed to drive the program forward.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensuring regulations are observed and relevant processes are in place to facilitate adherence.
• 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/business 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.