Join us as a Financial Crime Enhanced Due Diligence Manager, where you will conduct Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) reviews for Correspondent Banking clients. As a Financial Crime Enhanced Due Diligence Manager you will be required to have a thorough understanding of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) risks inherent to this high-risk sector. Including analysing complex documentation and drawing insights from a variety of Management Information (MI) sources to identify and assess risk factors. A key responsibility involves gathering and evaluating information from multiple sources and presenting the findings in a clear, concise, and well-structured manner. Based on this analysis, the role holder will make recommendations on whether to maintain or exit a client relationship, or to carry out additional due diligence to mitigate any identified risks.

You will collaboration with the compliance function, relationship teams, and Know Your Customer (KYC) Customer Due Diligence (CDD) delivery teams to ensure the production of high-quality EDD reviews. Operating at a senior level, the individual will deliver detailed reports that support informed decision-making by senior management regarding the onboarding and ongoing management of Corporate Bank clients. Playing a key presenter role in relevant Governance Forums within the business, with an important aspect of the role contributing to continuous improvements in the governance processes and procedures for the Correspondent Banking sector, ensuring effective escalation and closure of issues and supporting the broader alignment of CDD and EDD practices across the Corporate Bank Financial Crime Execution framework.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Previous experience of Enhanced Due Diligence or other risk management roles.
• Strong writing and presentation skills, ability to effectively summarise information from multiple sources into a concise and well-argued analytical assessment.
• In-depth knowledge of AML/Sanctions/ABC risks and ability to analyse those in a commercial banking context.
• Ability to work unsupervised, make informed judgements and be able to use initiative to solve several, often complex, cases simultaneously within deadlines.
• Ability to lead customer conversation on financial crime related topics.
• Ability to present complex subject matters concisely and confidently at Forum meetings and engage with internal and external stakeholders often at Managing Director level.
• Ability to make recommendations and respond to challenges and provide balanced analysis and reasoned arguments to support recommendations.
• Educated to Degree level
• Knowledge of financial crime and experience with conducting financial crime risk assessments.
• Interest in geopolitical events, regulatory landscape, and confidence in analysing risks in the context of financial flows.
• Previous experience using open-source research tools such as World-check.
• Ability to work using own initiative and come to conclusions and make recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills
• Excellent English language skills both verbal and written is essential
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to have difficult and often sensitive client discussions that do not impact overall client relationships.

Desirable skills include:

• Relevant AML/CTF or ABC qualifications i.e. ACAMs
• Knowledge of UK Financial Crime regulatory environment.

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

This role is based in London or Birmingham.

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 a 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 to.
• 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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.