Financial Crime Compliance Design Lead

Overview

The Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio is a multi-faceted Financial Crime programme of change delivered via over 20 programmes to create a holistic, risk-based and effective Financial Crime environment, strengthen robustness and enhance automation of Financial Crime processes, develop and strengthen our skills and capabilities across all lines of defence and empower our partners, colleagues and customers to identify and prevent Financial Crime by raising awareness of the risks.

As a Financial Crime Compliance Design Lead within the Central Portfolio Team, you will be a subject matter expert with deep technical knowledge of one of the key Financial Crime control pillars e.g. Customer Due Diligence, Screening, Transaction Monitoring and Intelligence and Investigations. You will take a holistic view of the overall control landscape that we have in Barclays; including the end to end systems, controls and processes throughout the customer lifecycle to design new, or enhance existing, controls.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Compliance Design Lead, you should have experience with:

• Advanced expertise in UK AML regulations, financial crime risks and typologies, with up‑to‑date knowledge of regulatory expectations and enforcement trends applied effectively in control design.
• Proven ability to design financial crime controls across CDD, Screening, Transaction Monitoring or Intelligence & Investigations, with a strong understanding of how risks translate into system/control requirements and experience embedding compliance‑by‑design.
• Experience shaping financial crime solutions within delivery teams, influencing design strategies with a risk‑based approach, and communicating technical/regulatory concepts clearly to stakeholders.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Familiarity with multi‑jurisdictional AML requirements and working knowledge of Sanctions, ABC and related financial‑crime areas.
• Understanding of screening tools, transaction monitoring platforms and machine learning technologies that support financial‑crime controls, with experience contributing to tech‑enabled control design.
• Experience engaging with regulators or supporting remediation programmes.

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 will be based out of our Glasgow office.

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 a 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 to.
• 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 1
  
  LOD, 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 escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations,…