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Economic Crime Oversight and Development Manager

Northampton, United Kingdom; London, United Kingdom; Glasgow, United Kingdom

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Date live: 06/10/2026

Business Area: Economic Crime

Area of Expertise: Risk and Quantitative Analytics

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000117673

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Barclays Risk

In Risk Barclays develops, recommends, and implements controls and cost-effective approaches to minimise Barclay's risks, identifies and analyses potential sources of loss to minimise risk and estimate the potential financial consequences of an occurring loss.

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Join us as an Economic Crime Oversight & Development Manager, where you will play a key role in the design, enhancement, and oversight of financial crime controls across Screening and Transaction Monitoring (TM). You will ensure that economic crime risks are effectively identified, managed, and mitigated through a robust, risk-based control framework that complies with legal, regulatory, and internal policy requirements.

Working closely with stakeholders across Financial Crime, Risk, Operations, Technology and Compliance, you will drive continuous improvement in control effectiveness, support strategic change initiatives, and provide expert guidance on emerging economic crime risks, regulatory developments, and industry best practice.

Role Profile: Head of Transaction Monitoring & Screening Risk

Key Responsibilities


  • Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing team, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and colleague development.
  • Provide strategic oversight of Transaction Monitoring (TM) and Screening controls, ensuring they are effectively designed, operated, and deliver measurable reductions in Economic Crime risk.
  • Own and enhance the Economic Crime control framework, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, emerging threats, and industry best practice.
  • Identify, assess, and oversee the remediation of material Economic Crime risks and control issues, ensuring appropriate governance, escalation, and evidence of risk reduction.
  • Deliver clear management information, risk insights, and recommendations to senior leaders and governance forums to support informed decision-making.
  • Drive continuous improvement across controls, processes, methodologies, technologies, and operating models to strengthen risk management capabilities.
  • Ensure control strategies evolve in response to emerging risks, typologies, regulatory developments, and changes in the internal and external risk environment.
  • Influence and challenge senior stakeholders to drive ownership, accountability, and effective management of Economic Crime risks.

Essential Experience & Skills


  • Significant leadership experience with a proven ability to build, develop, and motivate high-performing teams.
  • Strong knowledge of Economic Crime risks and typologies, including money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, and terrorist financing.
  • Demonstrable experience designing, implementing, and overseeing Financial Crime control frameworks within a risk-based environment.
  • Comprehensive understanding of the UK regulatory landscape, including Money Laundering Regulations, POCA, sanctions requirements, and FCA expectations.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to convert complex data and risk information into actionable insights and recommendations.
  • Experience establishing assurance frameworks, performance indicators, and management information to demonstrate control effectiveness and risk reduction.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels and translate technical issues into business outcomes.
  • Knowledge and practical application of Transaction Monitoring and Screening technologies.

Desirable Experience & Skills


  • Experience supporting regulatory reviews, audits, and assurance activity.
  • Professional qualifications in Financial Crime, AML, Compliance, Risk Management, or a related discipline.
  • Experience setting strategic direction for a significant risk or control function and leading large-scale change initiatives.
  • Extensive experience assessing, designing, and enhancing TM and Screening controls, with a focus on control effectiveness and residual risk management.
  • Proven track record of delivering sustainable change across multiple teams and business functions.
  • Deep understanding of Economic Crime regulation, control frameworks, risk methodologies, and emerging threats.
  • Experience within Financial Crime, AML, Sanctions, Fraud, or Risk functions in a regulated financial services environment.
  • Ability to interpret complex intelligence, risk assessments, and emerging threats to support material risk decisions.
  • Strong experience engaging with senior leaders, governance forums, regulators, and control owners to drive action and accountability.

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 located in London, Glasgow or Northampton.

Purpose of the role


To support the Risk Function in delivering it’s objective of safeguarding the bank's financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.


Accountabilities


  • Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
  • Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
  • Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.

Vice President Expectations


  • 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 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
  • Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
  • Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
  • Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
  • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
  • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
  • Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
  • Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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 role may be subject to enhanced governance arrangements. If successful, you may be required to comply with additional regulatory and compliance obligations, such as disclosure of personal trading activities and external interest/affiliations.

Further information on these requirements will be provided at a later stage of the process.

This is Barclays Northampton

Northampton is one of our most important UK centres. We’re home to all card and payment services across the Barclays business; we’re also home to Barclaycard. This is a vast operation, with a huge influence and impact on the financial services industry and on the lives of millions of British people.

Unique initiatives to enhance your wellbeing like our colleague allotment, helping to build community through getting closer to nature.

You can experience a wealth of diverse and surprising career paths right here in Northampton, across Barclays UK or even globally.

Our building is environmentally friendly and people-friendly too, with excellent facilities designed to make work a pleasure.

Northampton is the perfect blend of town and country, a growing and thriving centre for business, and a wonderful place to live and work.

This is Barclays Northampton

Northampton is one of our most important UK centres. We’re home to all card and payment services across the Barclays business; we’re also home to Barclaycard. This is a vast operation, with a huge influence and impact on the financial services industry and on the lives of millions of British people.

Focus on wellbeing

Unique initiatives to enhance your wellbeing like our colleague allotment, helping to build community through getting closer to nature.

Big opportunities

You can experience a wealth of diverse and surprising career paths right here in Northampton, across Barclays UK or even globally.

The workplace of the future

Our building is environmentally friendly and people-friendly too, with excellent facilities designed to make work a pleasure.

Discover Northampton

Northampton is the perfect blend of town and country, a growing and thriving centre for business, and a wonderful place to live and work.

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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.

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Your assessment

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Next step

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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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