Head of IB APAC Financial Crime

Job description

Summary

Join us as an APAC Head of Financial Crime Investment Bank (1LOD)

• Take on a specialist leadership role, leading a team who provides holistic advice on the interpretation and impact of financial crime policy and standards on the business
• You’ll be building out financial crime advisory and programme management capability to deliver multidisciplined advice across the Investment Bank, addressing gaps in service proposition with fit for purpose solutions
• This is an opportunity to build relationships across the financial crime industry both with peer banks and service providers and regulatory authorities to understand trends, risks, issues, control failures across the industry

What you’ll do

As the APAC Head, you’ll be building and leading relevant specialist to deliver credible and realistic functions to interpret and embed Financial Crime standards and guidance in line with business risk appetite.

You’ll be accountable for the leadership of APAC Team support to all parts of the FinCrime Hub and franchises on the interpretation of FinCrime policy, standards and risk appetite decisions including jurisdictional considerations.

You’ll also be:

• Working closely with key stakeholders in franchises and the lines of defence to identify new and emerging opportunities to strengthen and diversify capability
• Leading APAC FinCrime Team, including support for standards, technology and transformation teams implementing strategic financial crime systems spanning all disciplines
• Partnering with colleagues across Operations, Compliance and Controls to provide specialist support to identify and address capability, process or risk gaps
• Coordinating with the second line of defence for major policy framework changes and realignment to ensure impact assessment and alignment across the first line of defence
• Partnering with the lines of defence to act as the primary contact for FinCrime regulatory engagements and requests, working closely with the FinCrime Hub and franchise teams to manage and coordinate responses to regulatory requests
• Acting as the primary first line of defence point of contact for FinCrime related audits, legal cases working closely with the second and third lines of defence, and providing specialist knowledge and support with confidential sensitive FinCrime investigations

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for someone with an understanding of financial crime policies and standards and how these apply to both personal and non-personal products and services across the bank and its jurisdictions.

In addition, you’ll need:

• Experience of building and leading functions of financial crime teams, reacting to policy and strategic change to build fit for purpose and relevant advisory capability
• Demonstrable stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to influence at senior management levels and collaborate across the organisation
• Experience of working with and delivering across the three lines of defence.
  
  
• Proven leadership skills, building and nurturing diverse teams who provide support across a global operational footprint
• The ability to analyse and evaluate multiple sources of information, alternatives and associated consequences

Product knowledge across International Corporate Bank, Banking ad Markets

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.
  
  

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
  
  Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
  
  
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub‑function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business.
  
  Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally.
  
  They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
  
  
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
  
  
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub‑function.
  
  
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
  
  
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
  
  
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
  
  
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
  
  
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up‑to‑date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
  
  
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
  
  
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
  
  
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
  
  
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
  
  
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
  
  

All Senior 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.

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.

Required Skill Profession

Risk Management & Quantitative Analysis, Public Sector, Administration & Politics