VP, Americas Financial Crime Business Oversight Compliance

Overview

Join us as a VP, Americas Financial Crime Business Oversight Compliance, Payment Clearing Oversight, where you’ll play a critical role in leading regulatory oversight and supporting strategic business initiatives for Barclays’ Americas operations. In this senior leadership position, you’ll provide expert challenge on financial crime compliance matters, ensuring alignment with legal, regulatory, and ethical standards. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across the branch and Barclays, driving AML advisory, regulatory exam readiness, and assurance activities.

This is a high-impact role designed to strengthen oversight and compliance across multiple business lines operating at full capacity.

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

• Experience in financial crime oversight or AML advisory covering the Financial Technology and Money Service Business sectors
• Experience in financial crime investigations and/or SAR filings
• Ability to lead regulatory initiatives and provide strategic advisory at a senior level
• Knowledge of both US and global regulatory frameworks, with hands-on experience navigating complex compliance requirements

• Writing skills and proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and maintain credibility with executive leadership
• Ability to work effectively across multiple locations and time zones, exercising sound judgment and managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in this 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 New York.

Minimum Salary: $145,000

Maximum Salary: $200,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

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.

• 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, 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…