Senior FinCrime Investigations Manager

We’re looking for a Vice President to join UKC Financial Crime Execution, based in the UK, to report directly to the Head of FCE Investigations, who will support the front office business with a deep expertise in managing proactive AML Investigations across all UK Corporate Bank relationships to help identify, disrupt and deter money laundering and terror financing risks.

You will lead in identifying emerging risks within the UK Corporate Bank with the support of intelligence to tackle AML risk and supporting UK Corporate Bank in their commercial goals through effective financial crime risk management.

As a Senior Fin Crime Investigations Manager you will need to demonstrable existing SME knowledge and demonstrable experience. Being data driven, AML investigations across complex products/ services, the ability to make effective connections with colleagues in challenging circumstances, the ability to take in a lot of information in a short space of time, understand the relevant risks and explain those clearly to non-expert audiences under pressure, and explore nuanced and robust mitigation options, where possible, aligning with the Bank’s regulatory obligations and risk appetite.

To be successful in this role you will have the skills and experience in:

• Triggering proactive investigations into UK Corporate Bank clients / sectors / product types based on intelligence / emerging risks to identify, disrupt and deter money laundering and terror financing risks.
• Document and present relationship recommendations to senior leadership across 1
  
  LoD and 2
  
  LoD stakeholders. This will include engagement with stakeholders such as Fin Crime Advisory, Sanctions Advisory, ABC Advisory and the FIU or Legal and Group Tax to seek advice on specific issues.
• Perform in depth transaction analysis and internal / external due diligence using sources such as Factiva, Lexis Nexis, World-check, Google and other publically available resources.
• Identify, analyse and articulate the specific Financial Crime-relevant risk posed and provide a reasoned recommendation as to how to proceed with the relationship.
• Ensure strong record keeping and supporting documentation to evidence work completed. This will need to stand up to the scrutiny of the UK Corporate Banking high risk forum membership, Internal Audit and the Regulator who will review the output of their reviews and recommendations.
• Support FCE Head of Investigations responsibilities.
• Apply judgement to ascertain what level of due diligence is adequate and proportionate to mitigate the identified risks associated with a relationship / project.
• Coordinate stakeholders across 1
  
  LoD and 2
  
  LoD, ensuring regular updates, clear objections and outcomes of work are shared through the lifecycle of work being undertaken.
• If required and in line with UK legal obligations, draft and file internal Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), and provide support to the relevant team tasked with investigating any such internal SARs.
• Undertake analysis of transactional activity on corporate bank accounts and analysis of/comparison with published annual accounts where available, in order to identify suspicious transactions and assess Barclays exposure to AML risk. Provide guidance, training and feedback to Relationship Directors in their own assessment of transitional activity and explanation of client nature of business/source of funds.
• Support maintenance of UKC RAU Investigations. Present and explain MI to senior management ensuring accuracy of underlying data.
• Protect the reputation of Barclays by identifying and mitigating the risk posed by high risk customers.
• Identify, escalate and attempt to mitigate existing shortcomings identified within Barclays Financial Crime Risk Management controls e.g. KYC.
• Train UKC RAU members around emerging risks and typologies.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in Birmingham

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