AML Transformation Lead

Anti-Money Laundering Transformation Lead

London, Glasgow, Northampton

As a Barclays Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Transformation Lead, you will lead the development of policy, guidance and procedure defining requirements for CDD and EDD, including High Risk Industry/Sector and High-Risk Products. In this role, you will also focus on drafting risk appropriate documentation to support the development of controls to manage financial crime risk across the Bank, including developing business risk appetite statements and QA/QC requirements.

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?

• Driving Transformation Strategy & Program Management for the CDD (customer due diligence) function in the second line

• Leading the development of policy, guidance and procedures relating to anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing (AML/CTF)

• Acting as a subject matter expert across the spectrum of high-risk client, sector, and products in relation to CDD and EDD requirements

• Translating applicable international and national legislation and market practice into actionable control requirements across Barclays Business Units

• Collaborating with the Group Financial Crime leadership team to develop coherent and consistent CDD and EDD requirements across all Business Units

• Partnering with key stakeholders to ensure CDD and EDD initiatives are successfully tracked to deliverables, timeliness and expected outcomes

• Supporting the delivery of oversight responsibilities of the Business Oversight Compliance function with a focus on AML/CTF

What we're looking for:

• Experience in programme management and/or delivering and embedding change

• Subject matter expertise in AML/CTF, with a focus on higher risk sectors, products, and industries

• First class written and oral communication skills

• Knowledge of regulatory environment globally and risk management with exposure to anti-money laundering and/or Financial Crime matters

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Strategic mindset and ability to translate high level requirements into practical, proportionate, workable solutions at the operations level

• Experience of working in a global organisational environment

• Financial Crime-related qualification

• Ability to work in a programme led environment

Where will you be working?

In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as: a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.

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.

Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we've been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997. This state-of-the art energy efficient building holds up to 2,500 staff. The office location is perfect for travel from the midlands and London alike as we are based just off the A45, it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.

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