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Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Design SME

London
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The Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Design SME will operate within the second line of defence, providing deep Financial Crime subject matter expertise across the end-to-end CDD lifecycle.

You will work across the end-to-end CDD lifecycle, spanning global businesses, systems, controls, and processes, to design effective, risk-based CDD controls and enhance existing controls where required. You will translate regulatory expectations, policy requirements, risk principles, and control objectives into clear, practical, and implementable design solutions, that strengthen control effectiveness, support sustainable delivery, and drive measurable Financial Crime risk reduction.

This is a strong opportunity to join a team shaping the future design of Financial Crime controls across the bank. You will work on complex, high-impact issues, partner with experienced stakeholders across Compliance, business, technology, data, and change teams, and help deliver practical improvements to the Bank’s Financial Crime control environment.

To be successful as a CDD Design SME, you should have the following:

  • Regulatory and Risk Expertise: Advanced expertise in UK and international AML/Financial Crime regulatory requirements, regulatory expectations, industry guidance, and emerging risk typologies, with the ability to interpret complex requirements and translate them into practical, risk-based CDD control designs.
  • CDD Control Design Expertise: Proven ability to design, optimise, and govern CDD controls, translating Financial Crime risks into effective system and control requirements, and experience embedding compliance-by-design principles. Demonstrable experience shaping CDD design across complex programmes and control environments, managing interdependencies, identifying design risks, providing effective challenge, and supporting pragmatic, risk-based solutions that embed compliance-by-design principles.
  • End-to-End CDD SME Expertise: Deep practical expertise across the end-to-end CDD lifecycle, including Customer Risk Assessment, Identification & Verification, CDD/KYC, Enhanced Due Diligence, and Ongoing Due Diligence, with a strong understanding of how CDD interacts with Screening, Transaction Monitoring, Intelligence, Investigations, and Exits.
  • Requirements and Target State Design Expertise: Ability to define, review, and challenge business, risk, and control requirements, and target state solutions, ensuring clear traceability from regulatory expectations and risk drivers through to control outcomes and delivery.
  • CDD System Knowledge: Strong understanding of CDD systems, data flows, workflows, and technology architecture, with knowledge of technology solutions that support CDD controls and experience contributing to technology-enabled control design.

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Other Highly Valued Skills Include:

  • Broader Financial Crime exposure, including Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Anti-Tax Evasion, and other Financial Crime risk areas.
  • Effective communication and stakeholder management skills.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant to success in the role, including risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based out of our London or Glasgow office.

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To provide data-led expert oversight and check and challenge on business and compliance matters to evidence that the organisation is operating in compliance with Barclays legal, regulatory, and ethical responsibilities.

Accountabilities

  • Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing, and systems.
  • 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 1LOD, 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.

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 their 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 a 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.

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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.

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Skills

Regulatory Expertise
Risk Expertise
CDD Control Design
Compliance
Financial Crime
Customer Risk Assessment
KYC
Enhanced Due Diligence
Ongoing Due Diligence
Stakeholder Management
Data Flows
Technology Architecture
Sanctions
Anti-Bribery
Market Abuse
Investigations

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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