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EDD Operations Lead

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Date live: Jun. 27, 2024

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Compliance

Reference Code: 90390395

Contract: Permanent

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Enhanced Due Diligence Operations Lead
Glasgow

As a Barclays Enhanced Due Diligence Operations Lead, your role will include leading service delivery for the Operations Lead and Exits, helping single business and cross-Business Operations Lead processes across the Barclays Group. You will also have the opportunity to be overseeing the Politically Exposed Person and High-Risk Financial Crime Reviews carried out by the Enhanced Due Diligence Teams on behalf of other BUs, and providing assistance to the coordination of multi-BU reviews across the Barclays Group.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Managing Risk effectively, deliver on our Group strategy by implement a solid control culture within the Operations teams
• Assisting Group wide initiatives by providing the framework for implementation, working with the AE and, enhance EDD and AML processes within the Operation
• Taking ownership of all EDD & Exit owned actions end-to-end to committed actions within committed timeframes
• Representing EDD & Exits as the primary escalation point for control remediation & enhancement
• Delivering on critical business priorities while evolving platform towards its strategic vision
• Creating an environment of effective delivery by empowering the Operations teams, leveraging their knowledge and expertise, learning lessons from past delivery

What we’re looking for:

• Awareness of banking front to bank infrastructure and Financial Crime processes
• Good organizational skills and ability to work to tight deadlines
• Will have previously worked in an environment that has enabled them to gain a broad understanding of Financial Crime
• Will be, or have the ability to be, a subject matter expert in FC Operations and to have or built a wide knowledge of Financial Crime regulations and policies

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Good knowledge of operational risk requirements and standards applicable to the relevant processes and procedures

Where will you be working?

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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More about working at Barclays

Barclays offices across the UK are designed to be places where our people can come together to do their best work, surrounded by excellent facilities for both work and leisure. These are warm, diverse, supportive communities in some of the UK’s best locations, where everyone can thrive.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business.

Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a Carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

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Barclays offers a diverse, inclusive and engaged culture. A place where people can bring their whole selves to work and be respected for who they are, valued for what they do and celebrated for their contribution to our business and our community.
We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

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