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Join us as a Senior Project Manager at Barclays
Where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Project Manager, you will lead the delivery of complex financial crime change initiatives, driving transformation across processes, technology, and operating models. Working across business, operations, and technology teams, you will:
- Manage programme dependencies
- Shape delivery strategies
- Ensure change is implemented effectively and sustainably
Your leadership will be critical in aligning stakeholders, managing risks, and delivering strategic outcomes that strengthen Barclays’ financial crime capabilities and regulatory compliance framework.
Requirements
To be successful as a Senior Project Manager, you should have:
- Extensive project planning and delivery experience across regulatory or compliance programmes, ideally in financial crime
- Risk and issue management expertise with the ability to navigate regulatory scrutiny and tight timelines
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication across compliance, technology, and operations teams
Additional Skills
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Familiarity with CDD/KYC lifecycle and ID&V controls, including digital onboarding and trigger-based reviews
- Experience in delivering in fast-paced and iterative delivery environments
- Agile & Waterfall Delivery Expertise
- Knowledge of financial crime technology platforms or tooling (e.g., onboarding systems, workflow tools)
Assessment
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as:
- Risk and controls
- Change and transformation
- Business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology
- Job-specific technical skills
Location
We will consider applications from those able to work from either our Northampton, Glasgow, or London office.
Purpose of the Role
Focused on delivering individual projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget with a more immediate focus.
Accountabilities
Scope Management
Manages a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget.
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Strategic Focus
Operates more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project.
Time Horizon
Works with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end.
Stakeholder Management
Primarily manages stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project’s deliverables.
Risk and Issue Management
Focuses on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project’s scope.
Resource Management
Manages resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work.
Financial Management
Focuses on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints.
Metrics
Measures success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget.
Change Management
Manages changes that directly impact their specific project, including scope changes, timelines, or resource allocation adjustments.
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:
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- L – Listen and be authentic
- E – Energise and inspire
- A – Align across the enterprise
- D – Develop others
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's 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.
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