Americas Financial Crime Transformation Lead - VP

Barclays•New York, NY

10d•$145,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Join us as an Americas Financial Crime Transformation Lead - VP, providing senior oversight and strategic leadership to ensure financial crime programs align with regulatory, legal, and ethical standards across the U.S. and broader Americas region. This role serves as a critical bridge between global Financial Crime initiatives and regional execution, ensuring global frameworks are appropriately interpreted and applied to U.S. regulatory expectations. You will partner closely with Compliance, Risk, and Business stakeholders to deliver data-led oversight, effective challenge, and continuous improvement across AML, sanctions, and financial crime transformation efforts. Success in this role requires governance expertise, regulatory acumen, and the ability to influence senior leaders across a complex, highly regulated environment.

Requirements

Experience in Financial Crime, Compliance, AML, and/or Sanctions within a financial institution
Proven ability to lead complex, cross-regional transformation initiatives, supported by project management expertise
Understanding of U.S. financial crime regulations and regulatory expectations

Nice To Haves

Deep knowledge of risk management, governance frameworks, and operating across first and second lines of defense
ACAMS certification (or equivalent) preferred, demonstrating subject matter expertise in financial crime
Advanced PowerPoint and executive communication skills, with the ability to present clearly to senior leadership

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.