Economic Crime Delivery Lead

Job Description

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.

Join us as Delivery Lead where you will be responsible for delivering Business Banking's Economic Crime transformation agenda, leading complex change programmes across Technology and Operations to strengthen risk and controls in KYC, Sanctions, Transaction Monitoring and Fraud to lead the defence against key economic crime taxonomies. Working within a programme management structure, you will drive delivery through effective operating models, governance, and tools to reduce Financial Crime risk and achieve strategic outcomes.

To be successful as an Economic Crime Delivery Lead, you must have the following essential skills:

• Proven experience delivering complex change and transformation programmes, including operational changes, remediations, and technical builds, with considerable expertise in risk, controls, business and delivery management aligned to strategic objectives.
• Worked with both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• Been accountable for delivery standards and had delivery assured by Compliance or Audit.
• Extensive Economic Crime experience, with a deep understanding of AML, Screening, KYC, Transaction Monitoring, Fraud and Scam prevention, financial crime typologies, associated risks, and industry best practice.
• Experience leveraging Machine Learning and AI-driven enhancements to improve Economic Crime detection, prevention, and operational efficiency.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and influence matrix teams in a fast-paced environment, identifying risks and blockers, driving solutions, and escalating issues appropriately to ensure successful delivery against changing priorities.
• People leadership experience, with the ability to lead, coach, and develop high performing teams in a complex environment.

Some other highly valued skills may include

• Knowledge of Business Banking customers, sectors and products.
• Hold a PRINCE2 Project Management Certification.
• Recognised Financial Crime qualification, such as ICA AML Diploma, ACAMS or equivalent.
• Experience leading or contributing to deep-dive thematic reviews, risk assessments, or regulatory remediation activities.
• Control definition and design experience.

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 can be based in our London, Northampton, or Knutsford office.