BUK Business Oversight Compliance - Business Banking Financial Crime

Step into the role of Business Banking Financial Crime Business Oversight Compliance VP at Barclays, where you’ll play a pivotal part in shaping and safeguarding the bank’s financial crime control environment. In this position, you’ll lead risk profiling activities, provide robust oversight of financial crime frameworks, and deliver challenge across key control areas. Your work will span a diverse portfolio of business banking products, including current accounts, trade finance, and payment services.

You’ll also be responsible for driving high‑quality due diligence, leading investigations, and conducting targeted compliance monitoring. As a seasoned Financial Crime VP, you’ll bring a deep understanding of the evolving threat landscape, an “outside‑in” mindset that keeps you attuned to external risks, and the ability to translate complex issues into clear business‑level and executive‑ready summaries. You’ll regularly engage senior stakeholders — including Heads‑of‑Function — providing credible challenge and strategic insight.

You will contribute to a key project focused on high‑risk clients, influencers, and real‑estate exposures, applying your technical expertise in financial crime risk‑rating tools and coding to strengthen risk assessment capabilities.

• A strong understanding of financial crime compliance within a business banking environment
• Experience in risk profiling, due diligence, or investigations
• The ability to operate effectively under pressure and adapt to shifting priorities
• Proven experience engaging senior stakeholders with confidence and clarity
• The capability to produce concise, high‑quality business and executive summaries
• A well‑developed external awareness of emerging threats and industry trends

• Knowledge of business banking products, customer types, and associated risk typologies
• Familiarity with regulatory expectations and financial crime compliance frameworks
• Experience working in a second line of defence or oversight capacity
• Technical proficiency with financial crime risk‑rating tools and coding

This role is based in Glasgow with 3 anchor days Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays.

You may be assessed on 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.

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.

• Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems
• 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 1
  
  LOD, 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

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escape breaches of policies/procedures
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They…