Head of IB Americas Financial Crime

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 organization
• Experience of working with and delivering across the three lines of defense.
• Proven leadership skills, building and nurturing diverse teams who provide support across a global operational footprint
• The ability to analyze and evaluate multiple sources of information, alternatives and associated consequences
• Product knowledge across International Corporate Bank, Banking ad Markets.

Purpose of the role
Join us as an Americas 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

Accountabilities

• As the Americas 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 Americas 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 Americas 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 defense for major policy framework changes and realignment to ensure impact assessment and alignment across the first line of defense
• Partnering with the lines of defense 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 defense point of contact for FinCrime related audits, legal cases working closely with the second and third lines of defense, and providing specialist knowledge and support with confidential sensitive FinCrime investigations

Managing Director Expectations

• To manage a large, complex or diverse function and take accountability for the strategic direction of the function to significantly strengthen successful and efficient businesses and contribute to the strategic initiatives of the Barclays Group
• Lead and mentor high performing teams and embed a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects, act as a profound technical expert and thought leader, Identifying new and innovative/ground breaking ways of working. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Drive and achieve overall success and / or competitiveness of a business division by influencing senior leaders and committees.
• Strategically assess and manage risks to protect the business division / function and growth.
• Influence company policy and develop functional procedures in conjunction with senior leaders / strategic positions across the business.
• Demonstrate interpretative thinking for innovative solutions in complex situations and conceptual thinking in completely new situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant / complex business and strategic decisions that impact the Barclays Group, business division or function.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally and foster growth for Barclays business.
• Mandated as the business division/ functional spokesperson or representative to external bodies and shapes the public image of Barclays.
• Demonstrate exceptional knowledge of how business divisions and functions integrate with the Group to achieve the overall business objectives alongside industry theories and practices within own discipline.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive functional expertise and significant product knowledge.
• Accountable for the control and governance agenda of the business division / function.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays.

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.