Investment Banking Financial Crime Advisory

Join us at Barclays as a Investment Banking Financial Crime Advisory where you will be responsible for the strategic leadership, oversight, and continuous enhancement of the Investment Bank’s financial crime program. This role ensures serves as a focal point for first, second and third line of defence stakeholders for oversight of financial crime risk management across Banking, Markets and the International Corporate Bank.

You will act as a delegate for the Head of Investment Banking Financial Crime Advisory, representing the function in senior forums and leading strategic initiatives. Advising senior management, business heads, and control partners on Anti-Money Laundering, Counter-Terrorist Financing, Sanctions and Anti-Bribery & Corruption. Whilst ensuring the bank meets regulatory expectations and internal standards while enabling sustainable business growth.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in Financial Crime
• Experience in AML, Counter-Terrorist Financing, Sanctions, and Anti-Bribery & Corruption regulations.
• Experience advising on high-risk clients, transactions, and new product approvals.
• Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), reputational risk assessments, and escalation protocols.

Desirable skills include:

• Proven strategic Leadership skills
• Defining and executing financial crime strategy across Banking and Markets.
• Ability to drive global consistency
• Lead high‑performing teams, influence decision-making and provide constructive challenges.

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 London.

To ensure that the institution’s activities are conducted in compliance with applicable financial crime laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with its activities.

• Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance.
• Legal advice and support to the business on financial crime laws, regulations, and rules, including anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) laws and regulations.
• Support other legal teams in representation, of the bank in legal proceedings that raise financial crime issues, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
• Advising on financial crime compliance policies and procedures including to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws and regulations that may impact the bank's financial crime compliance practices.
• To support Compliance, contributing to and delivering training to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to financial crime.
• Pro‑active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.

• 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 escalate 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 may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and…