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Financial Crime Risk, Control & Transformation Oversight Advisor

Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Date live: 02/10/2025

Business Area: Compliance

Area of Expertise: Compliance

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000071747

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Barclays Compliance

Compliance is a broad, multidisciplinary function at Barclays that oversees our global business operations. We ensure the bank lives its values, meets regulatory requirements, and follows our codes of conduct. Compliance helps manage financial affairs safely, prevents crime, and eliminates bad practices, acting as guardians for customers, colleagues, assets, shareholders, and reputation. This vital, challenging, and rewarding role protects customers, defends our reputation, and defines our business practices. Without Compliance, Barclays could not operate.

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Join us as an AVP Financial Crime Risk, Control & Transformation Oversight Advisor.  You will play a pivotal role in safeguarding the firm against financial crime. With your strategic oversight, you will help ensure products and services aren’t misused for money laundering, terrorism financing, or other illicit activities. You will lead risk assessments, guide control governance, and manage regulatory reporting with precision. Your ability to interpret complex data and present clear insights empowers senior stakeholders to make informed decisions. You will thrive in dynamic environments, collaborate across diverse teams, and bring a forward-thinking mindset to every challenge. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact in financial crime risk management, this role is built for you.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Risk, Control & Transformation Oversight Advisor you must have:

-A strong foundation in Financial Crime or Compliance oversight, with hands-on experience in control and governance reporting.

-Experienced working with stakeholders at all levels and skilled in presenting insights through Excel, PowerPoint, and BI/MI tools.

-In depth understanding how to track and interpret KPIs and SLAs, and you know how to turn data into decisions.

-Experience with internal systems and Issue resolution or oversight to help maintain operational integrity helps you maintain operational integrity, and you’re comfortable preparing governance packs that support strategic conversations.

-The ability to work flexibly in a dynamic and fast past regulatory environment.

Location: Glasgow with 3 anchor days in the office.

You may be assessed on 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.

Overall purpose of role

The purpose of this role is to contribute to effective oversight of the firm’s compliance to Financial Crime risk management. Ensuring the business effectively mitigate the risks of products and services being abused for the purposes of money laundering, terrorism financing, or other financial crime.  This role provides strategic oversight across Financial Crime through the facilitation and oversight of the annual risk assessment cycle, control governance, issues management and adherence to regulatory reporting requirements.

Key Accountabilities

  • The role encompasses a broad range of responsibilities across Financial Crime oversight, MI reporting, risk assessment, and control governance. Key deliverables include:

  • Producing weekly and monthly reports on overdue, new and coming-due issues for BOC BU Directors, including horizon scanning packs and stakeholder coordination for issue materiality reviews and new issue forums.

  • Providing Check & Challenge on data across a number of key business processes including Key Indicator submission, issue accuracy and annual organisational risk ratings.   

  • Creating and maintaining dashboards and slide packs that track open issues, breaches of standards and trends across the Financial Crime lifecycle. 

  • Reviewing and approving control amendments submitted via Sentinel and participating in governance forums such as the CSO Control Gaps and Enhancements Monthly Governance Forum.

  • Supporting the delivery of Local Uplifts across jurisdictions, including Business Readiness Assessments, stakeholder engagement, and documentation of uplift actions and controls.

  • Supporting the One Risk Assessment (ORA) programme through weekly Design Authority and Working Group meetings, bi-weekly Scrum updates, and annual cycles of Inherent, Residual, and Controls Risk Assessments.

  • Acting as a central point of contact for ORA-related operational support, stakeholder queries, and communications across 1LOD, 2LOD, and policy teams.

  • Producing monthly dashboards across all BBPLC businesses covering reportable Key Indicators (KIs), including commentary on metrics outside tolerance and remediation steps.

  • Leading the quarterly and annual REPCRIM submission to the FCA, including performance reviews and trend analysis.

  • Overseeing the KI Tool, managing input and review queries, and approving data amendments to ensure data integrity and governance.

  • Engaging with IFC Working Groups to shape proposed changes to Financial Crime KIs and attending monthly FCOM meetings to review business unit performance.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

  • To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.

  • Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes

  • If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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.

  • OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.

  • Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.

  • Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.

  • Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

  • Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.

  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.

  • Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.

  • Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.

  • Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

To find out more about Barclays' strategy please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

This is Barclays Glasgow

Barclays Glasgow is the engine of the Corporate and Investment Bank, and Shared Technology, delivering vital services to clients across the world. With c.5,500 talented people in a whole range of roles, the work we do touches millions of lives every day.

Our campus is a safe environment for neuro-diverse colleagues or anyone who, from time to time, may need calm, controlled spaces.

We work hard to make our Glasgow campus a centre of citizenship, community integration and social impact. We make a real difference.

Our campus features excellent facilities such as our Fitness Suite, fitness classes, an on-site GP, a bicycle store and so much more.

Connect with your colleaguesJoin one of many clubs and societies like our working parents club, or catch up with your colleagues at our rooftop bar, The Beacon.

This is Barclays Glasgow

Barclays Glasgow is the engine of the Corporate and Investment Bank, and Shared Technology, delivering vital services to clients across the world. With c.5,500 talented people in a whole range of roles, the work we do touches millions of lives every day.

Designed for diversity

Our campus is a safe environment for neuro-diverse colleagues or anyone who, from time to time, may need calm, controlled spaces.

At the heart of the community

We work hard to make our Glasgow campus a centre of citizenship, community integration and social impact. We make a real difference.

Focus on health and wellbeing

Our campus features excellent facilities such as our Fitness Suite, fitness classes, an on-site GP, a bicycle store and so much more.

Connect with your colleagues

Connect with your colleaguesJoin one of many clubs and societies like our working parents club, or catch up with your colleagues at our rooftop bar, The Beacon.

Multicultural ERGs at Barclays

Be you. Be valued. Belong.

We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger and drive success.

You can learn more about our commitment to our colleague on our Inclusion and Opportunities page.

Learn more

Application Process

Your application

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Your assessment

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Your interview

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Next step

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Working flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. If you'd like to explore flexible working arrangements, please discuss this with the hiring manager. Your request will be reviewed in-line with the requirements of the role/business needs of the team.

Hybrid working

We have a structured approach to hybrid working, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days, as set by the business area. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience.
And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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