Barclays
Financial Crime Investigations
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Financial Crime Investigations Role
Join us as an Investment Bank Financial Crime Investigations professional, where you will be responsible for handling:
- Money laundering
- Bribery
- Corruption
- Sanctions investigations carried out as part of the first line of defence.
This exciting role is accountable for ensuring compliance with global financial crime regulatory standards while enabling sustainable business growth.
You will:
- Perform financial crime investigations across:
- Banking
- Markets
- International Corporate Bank
- Ensure the bank meets regulatory expectations and internal standards
Key Accountabilities:
- Executing financial crime investigations across a range of financial crime typologies
- Conducting manual reviews (including):
- Negative media referrals
- Referrals from internal/external sources
- Contributing to:
- Design and maintenance of investigative procedures
- Quality assurance frameworks
- Risk-based methodologies
- Ensuring:
- Adherence to AML and Global Sanctions requirements
- Compliance with internal policies and standards
- Driving continuous improvement in investigative controls by leveraging:
- Data analytics
- Emerging technologies
- Managing stakeholder relationships effectively
Success Criteria:
Experience & Knowledge
- Demonstrable experience within:
- The banking industry
- Broader financial services sector
- Significant investigations experience with financial crime investigations
- Robust understanding of:
- Investment banking products
- Stock markets
- Developed communication skills for interacting with diverse stakeholders
Desirable Skills & Qualifications
- Experience with trade surveillance systems
- Understanding of:
- Investment Banking
- International Corporate Banking
- Experience in handling and assessing complex datasets
- Project change delivery and transformation experience
- Qualifications such as:
- ACAMS
- ICA
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About the Role
Purpose: Provide data-led expert oversight and challenge business/compliance matters to evidence compliance with Barclays’ legal, regulatory and ethical responsibilities.
Accountabilities:
- Identification & assessment of compliance risks through rigorous reviews of:
- Business activities
- Changes
- Processes
- Testing
- Systems
- Investigation for potential market abuse, including:
- Insider dealing
- Unlawful disclosure
- Market manipulation
- Anti-competitive conduct
- Investigation of compliance risk events or breaches
- Oversight and challenge of corrective actions and preventive measures
- Implementation of compliance policies/procedures aligned with:
- Regulatory requirements
- International standards (including jurisdictional requirements)
- Collaboration with:
- 1LOD teams
- Relevant Compliance teams
- Legal departments
- Risk management functions
- Investigation and oversight of:
- Money laundering
- Terrorist financing
- Other financial crimes
VP-Specific Expectations:
For Contributors Without Leadership Responsibilities:
- Subject matter expertise within specialism
- Guide technical direction on relevant assignments
- Collaborate to lead multi-year projects
- Identify gaps requiring expertise from other disciplines
- Train & coach less experienced specialists
- Provide insights impacting long-term strategy, risks, and profits
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For Senior Specialists With Leadership Responsibilities:
Strategic Management Duties:
- Contribute or define strategy, drive requirements and recommend changes
- Manage:
- Resources
- Budgets
- Policies
- Processes
- Deliver continuous improvements
- Escalate breaches of policies/procedures
Team Leadership Behaviour Framework (LEAD):
- L – Listen & be authentic
- E – Energise & inspire
- A – Align across the enterprise
- D – Develop others
Key Stakeholder Leadership (All Levels):
- Advise decision-makers on alignment of priorities
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment (supporting control & governance agendas)
- Assume leadership/ownership for managing risk and enhancing controls within the team
- Demonstrate comprehensive organisational knowledge to support business goals
- Collaborate with adjacents to align support areas with business activity and strategy
Analytical Problem-Solving Requirements:
- Choose between complex, sophisticated options
- Conduct in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking
- Compare alternatives to define challenges and develop innovative responses
- Research-based solutions to inform decision-making
Relationship Development:
- Establish trust across internal/external partners to advance business objectives
- Apply influencing & negotiation skills to deliver desired outcomes
Role Location Options: Birmingham, Knutsford, Glasgow, London
Barclays Commitments:
All colleagues are expected to embody: Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship – the moral compass Mindset: Adopt behaviours to Empower, Challenge, and Drive – the operational guide.
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