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Director, Financial Crime Oversight (1LOD)

Wilmington, United States

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Date live: 12/16/2024

Business Area: See job description

Area of Expertise: Compliance

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000011394

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Barclays Compliance

Compliance is a broad, multidisciplinary function at Barclays that oversees our global business operations. We ensure the bank lives its values, meets regulatory requirements, and follows our codes of conduct. Compliance helps manage financial affairs safely, prevents crime, and eliminates bad practices, acting as guardians for customers, colleagues, assets, shareholders, and reputation. This vital, challenging, and rewarding role protects customers, defends our reputation, and defines our business practices. Without Compliance, Barclays could not operate.

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The US Consumer Bank (USCB) Director, Financial Crime Oversight is responsible for ensuring that Barclays Bank Delaware effectively manages its financial crime risks, covering money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions and bribery and corruption, in line with the BBDE Anti-Money Laundering/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) and Sanctions Compliance Program and related Barclays Group Financial Crime policies.  In doing so the role holder protects the Bank, its customers and its employees, as well as society at large, from the negative effects of financial crime.

  • Ensure the bank achieves compliance with all Financial Crime regulations, policies and standards, and manages Financial Crime within stated risk appetite, through

  • Overseeing the E2E processes that are primarily designed to manage financial crime risk or comply with financial crime regulations, policies and standards;

  • Acting as 1st line oversight representative for regulatory engagements on matters relating to financial crime

  • Collaborating with others to deliver effective risk management and compliance in related processes (e.g. customer on-boarding, suspicious activity monitoring and reporting, screening, customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence, etc.) in a fashion that also supports the business’s wider strategy

  • Ensuring ABC controls are operating effectively across the organization

  • Hold delegated authority from the first line of defence Responsible Executive for financial crime compliance and risk management

  • Work with second line of defence functions (primarily BBDE Bank Secrecy Officer (BSA) Officer) to influence and shape the bank’s policies and standards in a manner that reflects and is relevant to US Consumer Bank customers and partners

  • Responsible for working with all teams involved to ensure that the bank achieves satisfactory outcomes in related risk assessments, assurance reviews and audits, identifying and resolving issues that may preclude this and responding appropriately to assessments that do not meet this target

Essential Skills

  • A strong base of understanding of and experience in financial crime compliance and risk management within a financial services organization

  • 10+ years’ experience and skills in leading a team(s) with responsibility for delivering compliance with regulation and/or policies within a customer facing environment

  • 10+ years’ experience in regulatory change and skills in leading teams and functions through change and embedding continuous improvement, while also maintaining an effective control environment

  • Significant experience and skills in working with senior stakeholders across a business area and making sound risk-based decisions with important consequences

  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to influence through a matrixed organization

Purpose of the role

To design and execute the risk management framework for identifying and assessing compliance risks that may arise from the bank’s activities, products, or services. 

Accountabilities

  • Identification of changes to the level of risk exposure through the assessment of business activities, client base, products, geographies and thematic key risks including laws, rules and regulations.
  • Implementation of ongoing monitoring, review and challenge of risk assessments to verify that they remain relevant and effective considering changing circumstances arising from a control environment that is not designed and/or operating effectively.
  • Development and implementation of a framework to identify where the residual risk of a business requires risk mitigation strategies, policies, and procedures to bring the organisation's exposure to identified risks to within appetite.
  • Analysis of the likelihood and severity of identified risks to determine their overall impact on the organisation.
  • Utilisation of governance risk and control technology and data analytics to identify and measure patterns and trends related to compliance risk.
  • Collaboration with the business, Compliance and other risk functions to develop and maintain a risk assessment framework that meets Operational and Compliance Risk requirements.

Director Expectations

  • Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
  • Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
  • Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
  • Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
  • Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
  • Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
  • Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
  • Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
  • Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
  • Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
  • Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
  • Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.

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 a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

To find out more about Barclays' strategy please click here.

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.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

This is Barclays Wilmington

Wilmington is the headquarters of Barclays US Consumer Bank. To support our growth ambitions, we’re investing in a world-class campus that nurtures our culture and provides a fresh, modern and welcoming space for our colleagues and partners alike.

A historic building on the thriving Riverfront that we’ve renovated, and we’re proud of our contribution to the community’s growth.

The wellness experience at our campus is about opportunities for social connection, nourishing food and drinks, and dynamic working.

We bring the workplace to life for colleagues through bespoke events, initiatives, activities and growth opportunities.

We support future ways of working with thoughtfully planned spaces for individual work, collaboration, socializing, and wellbeing.

This is Barclays Wilmington

Wilmington is the headquarters of Barclays US Consumer Bank. To support our growth ambitions, we’re investing in a world-class campus that nurtures our culture and provides a fresh, modern and welcoming space for our colleagues and partners alike.

Hometown pride

A historic building on the thriving Riverfront that we’ve renovated, and we’re proud of our contribution to the community’s growth.

Focused on wellness

The wellness experience at our campus is about opportunities for social connection, nourishing food and drinks, and dynamic working.

Curated experiences

We bring the workplace to life for colleagues through bespoke events, initiatives, activities and growth opportunities.

Reimagining the workplace

We support future ways of working with thoughtfully planned spaces for individual work, collaboration, socializing, and wellbeing.

Be you. Be valued. Belong.

We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger and drive success. Our colleague networks offer connection, support, and growth, while our "This is Me" series shares the unique stories of our colleagues. Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, Barclays values you for who you are and ensures you truly belong.

You can learn more about our commitment to our colleague on our DE&I page.  

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Application Process

Your application

We’ll ask for information about you, your CV and cover letter.

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Your assessment

Covering your behaviours and ability at work.

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Your interview

Exploring your past experiences and skills.

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Next step

We’ll request additional information so that you can complete our screening process

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Working flexibly

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture and environment, that 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.

Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

Hybrid working: Our approach to hybrid working ensures there’s the right balance of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, as required for each role. For business areas that offer a hybrid working experience, this will be in a structured way, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week. Some roles may require full onsite working. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager.

We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with the needs of our business.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience.
And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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