UKCB Senior Financial Crime Investigations

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 AML Investigations across all UK Corporate Bank relationships to help identify, disrupt and deter money laundering and terror financing risks. In addition, the role will require to oversee the decision‑making process on the true‑match AML alerts escalation.

This is not an entry‑level role and requires demonstrable existing SME knowledge and demonstrable experience. The skills we find make for great VPs in our team are experience in 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.

• Lead complex, high profile financial crime 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 publicly 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.
• Protect the reputation of Barclays by identifying and mitigating the risk posed by high‑risk customers.
• Identify, elevate and attempt to mitigate existing shortcomings identified within Barclays Financial Crime Risk Management controls e.g. KYC.
• Train UKC FCE team members around emerging risks and typologies.

• A number of years experience in a corporate investigations or compliance role in a financial services, consulting or corporate environment or in the public sector.
• Experience of Financial Crime Compliance and Complex Investigations, including forensic account reviews and analysis of payment flows (in‑depth understanding of payments through financial crime risk lenses).
• In‑depth knowledge of AML/Sanctions/ABC risks and ability to analyse those in a commercial banking context.
• Excellent writing and communication skills, ability to effectively summarise…