Business Oversight Compliance - USCB Financial Crime VP

About the role

Barclays is hiring a Business Oversight Compliance - USCB Financial Crime Vice President in Wilmington, Delaware, the headquarters of Barclays US Consumer Bank. The role provides independent oversight and challenge across the financial crime framework, assessing controls, emerging risks and remediation across products, customers and transactions, and advising senior stakeholders on BSA/AML, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption and other financial crime requirements.

Key responsibilities

• Identify and assess compliance risks through reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems.
• Investigate potential market abuse (insider dealing, unlawful disclosure, market manipulation, anti-competitive conduct).
• Investigate compliance risk events or breaches and oversee corrective actions and preventative measures.
• Implement compliance policies and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and international standards.
• Collaborate with 1LOD, other compliance teams, legal and risk management functions.
• Identify, investigate and oversee potential money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crime.
• Contribute to or set strategy, plan resources and budgets, manage policies and processes, and escalate breaches.
• Advise functional leadership and senior management, and manage risk and strengthen controls.

Required profile

• Permanent contract, Vice President level.
• AML and fraud experience, including transaction monitoring, alert and case investigations, fraud-to-AML escalation, SAR referrals and filings, and QA.
• Gap analysis and thematic reviews, identifying control weaknesses and root causes.
• Knowledge of sanctions controls, including OFAC screening, watchlist governance and alert disposition.
• Experience supporting regulatory exams, audits, assurance reviews and executive responses.
• Ability to challenge risk assessments and evaluate control effectiveness.

Required skills

• Excel and PowerPoint, including large data analysis, dashboards and executive reporting.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across Legal, Operations, Technology, Product, Audit, Assurance and Compliance.
• Valued: consumer banking experience, product approval and third-party oversight, financial crime investigations and SAR governance.

The role is based in Wilmington, DE, with a hybrid working pattern on fixed anchor days, and requires the legal right to work in the US.