Financial Crime Training

The overall purpose of this role is to build and establish a brand-new training framework from scratch to enhance role-based Financial Crime training. Driven by regulatory findings from the Federal Reserve and FCA Skilled Persons reviews, this position focuses on ensuring that specific employees—such as Relationship Managers and KYC Analysts-understand their unique Financial Crime risks and know exactly how to spot and escape them.

The overall purpose of this role is to build and establish a brand-new training framework from scratch to enhance role-based Financial Crime training. Driven by regulatory findings from the Federal Reserve and FCA Skilled Persons reviews, this position focuses on ensuring that specific employees—such as Relationship Managers and KYC Analysts-understand their unique Financial Crime risks and know exactly how to spot and escape them.

• Financial Crime or Compliance domain knowledge:
  Deep understanding of the field to accurately identify risks (such as fraud) and train staff on key regulations on the horizon (such as EU AML Authority and virtual asset regulations).
• Tangible training expertise:
  Proven experience in instructional design and creating training content, going beyond simply writing policy documents.
• Stakeholder engagement:
  Strong communication and negotiation skills to manage potential pushback from line managers and Business Management teams up to the Director level regarding the amount of required training.
• Good governance skillset:
  Experience in developing oversight of controls, including designing, testing, and ensuring they are working properly. Alternatively, solid experience in Financial Crime policy or writing audit and regulatory closure packs is acceptable.
• Evaluation and measurement:
  Understanding of methodologies for evaluating training effectiveness over time, such as tracking improvements in QA scores or training pass rates.
• Desirable certifications:
  Relevant Financial Crime certifications and formal instructional design training (such as Cornerstone academy courses) are preferred but not strictly required.

• Develop and implement a targeted, role-based mandatory training framework from the ground up.
• Conduct Training Needs Assessments/Analysis (TNA) and role mapping to determine exactly which employees require specific training.
• Design and create comprehensive training materials, including presentation decks, e-learning courses, and learning labs.
• Develop specialized content that teaches employees how to practically identify, manage, and escape financial crime risks within their specific day-to-day functions.
• Measure the impact and effectiveness of the training programs deployed to ensure learning objectives are met.

Barclays is a British universal bank. It is diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Barclays businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by its service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Everything Barclays does is shaped by its five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The Barclays values inform the foundations of its relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how Barclays measures and rewards the performance of colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Barclays aims to foster a culture where individuals of all…