Job Title - FCE (Financial Crime Execution) Governance & Control Manager
Location - London - Hybrid - 3 Days per week in the office
Contract - 6 Months - Potential to extend
Shift Pattern - Monday - Friday
PAYE only
Barclays OverviewBarclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.
Working FlexiblyWe’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs.Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager.
About Financial Crime ExecutionThe team was set up to provide dedicated support to Corporate & Investment Bank Colleagues on interpreting, guiding and Business as Usual (BAU) support of Financial Crime policy and regulations. This is to protect the bank, our clients and our shareholders while maintaining our licence to operate.
Overall purpose of roleThe role is a high profile role with responsibility for identifying, leading and delivering significant end to end improvements for Governance & Control key processes undertaken by UKC / IB colleagues.You will need to manage difficult discussions, drive decisions and make complex judgements. By the use of in-depth analysis, the role holder will define problems and develop innovative solutions including making priority calls as part of their lead role.
Key Responsibilities:
* Role holder is key to driving the Governance & Control agenda of the Financial Crime Execution team and wider UKC / IB Financial Crime controls.
* Plays a key role in supporting Financial Crime reporting and Financial crime oversight.
* The role holder is required to make critical judgements and come up with solutions based on critical analytical thinking, comparing and selecting complex alternatives as each situation requires.
* Duties include design and delivery of E2E process and policy improvements with demonstrable cost/benefit analysis
* The role holder is required to have a good understanding of financial crime policy, operational processes and AML regulations in order to consider and challenge any control issues.
Stakeholder Management and Leadership
* Build strong relationships and develop a network of ‘business partners’ across other parts of UKC / IB, Product Operations to ensure E2E governance and control requirements satisfy business/client strategy ( cost efficiencies etc.) and to drive cross function collaboration in order to deliver significant improvements to processes which have considerable impact on business units.
* Ability to communicate at a mid-senior level, with superior influencing and negotiating skills and the ability to challenge effectively and constructively
* Work with key stakeholders to define on-going frameworks for audit, control, governance and accountability
* Influence a wide-ranging audience to gain buy-in to changes in policy & process to ensure adherence to regulation.
* Manage and influence key stakeholders across UKC / IB, Financial Crime, KYC Operations and the wider Group and secure support of stakeholders/interested parties, both within UKC / IB and external, to achieve strategic goals and to drive performance improvements
Decision-making and Problem Solving
* Develop, and support decision making with senior representatives from key functions such as KYC
* Operations, Financial Crime, Compliance etc. To drive forward priority decisions required to address current governance issues and unblock policy/resource issues.
* High level of ability to assimilate multiple levels of data and information and identify key themes and opportunities. Uses initiative to understand / get to the root cause of the underlying issue – not just fix the immediate problem
* Strong decision making skills that will support and lead the strategic direction for process improvement in the business
* Manage and ensure all relevant governance, control, risk management and complian...