Business Oversight Compliance - USCB Financial Crime VP

Barclays•Wilmington, DE

About The Position

The Business Oversight Compliance - USCB Financial Crime VP provides independent, data-led oversight and challenge across the financial crime framework. The role assesses financial crime controls, emerging risks, and remediation efforts across products, customers, and transactions, and advises senior stakeholders on BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, and other financial crime requirements. It supports risk assessments, regulatory and audit engagements, and translates regulatory expectations into sustainable control improvements. As a senior subject-matter expert, the role influences stakeholders and strengthens the organization’s financial crime risk culture. The position also provides expert oversight and challenge on business and compliance matters to help evidence adherence to legal, regulatory, and ethical responsibilities. It identifies and investigates compliance risks and potential market abuse, oversees corrective and preventative actions, supports implementation of compliant policies and procedures, and collaborates with business, Compliance, Legal, and risk management functions. Vice President expectations include contributing to strategy and change, advising senior stakeholders, managing and mitigating risk, strengthening controls, and developing solutions through sophisticated analysis and research. Depending on the role’s leadership structure, the VP may lead and develop a team or guide technical direction and coach specialists as an individual contributor. The role is located in Wilmington, Delaware.

Requirements

AML and fraud experience, including transaction monitoring, alert and case investigations, fraud-to-AML escalation, SAR referrals or filings, and quality assurance.
Experience conducting gap analysis and thematic reviews, identifying control weaknesses and root causes, and developing 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 examinations, audits, assurance reviews, and executive responses.

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.
Excel and PowerPoint skills, including large data analysis, dashboards, trend identification, and executive reporting.

Responsibilities

Identify and assess compliance risks through reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing, and systems.
Identify and investigate potential market abuse, including insider dealing, unlawful disclosure, market manipulation, and anti-competitive conduct.
Investigate compliance risk events or breaches and oversee challenge of corrective actions and preventative measures.
Implement compliance policies and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and international standards, including jurisdictional requirements.
Collaborate with first-line business teams, Compliance, Legal, and risk management functions to support comprehensive compliance and risk management.
Identify, investigate, and oversee potential money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crime.
Assess financial crime controls, emerging risks, and remediation across products, customers, and transactions.
Advise senior stakeholders on BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, and other financial crime requirements.
Support risk assessments, regulatory examinations, audits, assurance reviews, and executive responses.
Translate regulatory expectations into sustainable control improvements and strengthen the financial crime risk culture.
Contribute to strategy, recommend changes, manage policies and processes, deliver continuous improvements, and escalate policy or procedure breaches.
Advise key stakeholders and senior management on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment and support the control and governance agenda.
Develop solutions through analytical thinking, research, and comparison of complex alternatives.
Build and maintain trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders and use influencing and negotiating skills to achieve objectives.
If managing a team, define responsibilities, plan future needs, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to pay decisions; if an individual contributor, guide technical direction and coach less experienced specialists.