Job Description

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.

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: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within 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 comprehensive understanding of the organisation 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.

Join us as a Product: Trade and Working Capital Specialist, where you will be a financial crime product specialist who can provide expert advice on the Trade & Working Capital product suite, supporting mainly product teams on the design, suitability and delivery of financial crime mitigation solutions across receivables finance, supply chain finance, payables finance, inventory finance, trade loans, documentary trade, structured trade and related working capital solutions. The role requires someone with deep technical product knowledge, strong commercial judgement, and the ability to advise on inherent financial crime risk, mitigating controls and outcomes This is a senior advisory role for someone who combines deep Trade & Working Capital product expertise with the confidence to advise internal teams on financial crime risk . The successful candidate will be commercially minded, technically credible, and able to operate across business, product, and control functions to deliver practical, client-focused, and well-governed outcomes. You will thrive in this role having product expertise, strategic thinking, commercial judgement, solution design, executive communication, risk awareness, problem solving, collaboration and client focus.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Act as the subject matter expert for Trade & Working Capital products and financial crime risk
• Work with Coverage, Product, Credit Risk, Legal, Compliance, Financial Crime, Operations and Client Service teams to ensure TWC product solutions adequately mitigate financial crime risk.
• Support product teams in their process of developing products to ensure that financial crime risks are considered mitigated and governed (NAPA, Product Review and Change Governance).

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Significant experience advising on Trade Finance and Working Capital products within a banking, corporate banking, or transaction banking environment.
• Strong understanding of trade products and structures, including receivables, payables, supply chain finance, documentary trade, trade loans and working capital optimisation.
• Stakeholder management, influencing, communication and commercial judgement, with the ability to operate as a trusted advisor to Coverage, Product, and control partners.
• Desirable experience includes trade digitisation, fintech-enabled trade solutions, ESG-linked trade or sustainable supply chain solutions, and relevant professional qualifications such as CDCS, CITF, ACT or equivalent.
• Deep understanding of financial crime risk.

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

This role is in London.