Business Oversight Compliance - USCB Financial Crime VP

Barclays•Wilmington, DE

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Join Barclays as a Business Oversight Compliance - USCB Financial Crime VP, providing independent oversight and challenge across the financial crime framework. You will assess financial crime controls, emerging risks and remediation efforts across products, customers, and transactions. The role will advise senior stakeholders on BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, and other financial crime requirements. You will support risk assessments, regulatory and audit engagements, and help translate regulatory expectations into sustainable control improvements. As a senior subject-matter expert, you will influence key stakeholders and strengthen the organization’s financial crime risk culture.

Requirements

AML and fraud experience, including transaction monitoring, alert/case investigations, fraud-to-AML escalation, SAR referrals/filings, and QA
Experience conducting gap analysis and thematic reviews, identifying control weaknesses, root causes, and sustainable remediation
Knowledge of sanctions controls, including OFAC screening, watchlist governance, alert disposition, escalation, and potential matches
Ability to challenge risk assessments, evaluate control effectiveness, and identify sustainable remediation
Experience supporting regulatory exams, audits, assurance reviews, and executive responses
Excel and PowerPoint skills, including large data analysis, dashboards, trend identification, and executive reporting

Nice To Haves

Consumer banking experience across credit cards, deposits, lending, brokered deposits, and digital financial services
Leadership in product approvals, material change assessments, third-party oversight, risk appetite, issue management, and regulatory change
Financial crime investigations and SAR governance, including investigation quality, challenge, disposition, and escalation
Ability to influence senior stakeholders across Legal, Operations, Technology, Product, Audit, Assurance, and Compliance

Responsibilities

Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems.
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.
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.
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.