Head of IB Americas Financial Crime

Americas Head Of Financial Crime Investment Bank

Join us as an Americas Head of Financial Crime Investment Bank (1LOD). Take on a specialist leadership role, leading a team who provides holistic advice on the interpretation and impact of financial crime policy and standards on the business. You'll be building out financial crime advisory and programme management capability to deliver multidisciplined advice across the Investment Bank, addressing gaps in service proposition with fit for purpose solutions. This is an opportunity to build relationships across the financial crime industry both with peer banks and service providers and regulatory authorities to understand trends, risks, issues, control failures across the industry.

As the Americas Head, you'll be building and leading relevant specialist to deliver credible and realistic functions to interpret and embed Financial Crime standards and guidance in line with business risk appetite. You'll be accountable for the leadership of Americas Team support to all parts of the FinCrime Hub and franchises on the interpretation of FinCrime policy, standards and risk appetite decisions including jurisdictional considerations. You'll also be :

• Working closely with key stakeholders in franchises and the lines of defense to identify new and emerging opportunities to strengthen and diversify capability
• Leading Americas FinCrime Team, including support for standards, technology and transformation teams implementing strategic financial crime systems spanning all disciplines
• Partnering with colleagues across Operations, Compliance and Controls to provide specialist support to identify and address capability, process or risk gaps
• Coordinating with the second line of defense for major policy framework changes and realignment to ensure impact assessment and alignment across the first line of defense
• Partnering with the lines of defense to act as the primary contact for FinCrime regulatory engagements and requests, working closely with the FinCrime Hub and franchise teams to manage and coordinate responses to regulatory requests
• Acting as the primary first line of defense point of contact for FinCrime related audits, legal cases working closely with the second and third lines of defense, and providing specialist knowledge and support with confidential sensitive FinCrime investigations

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are : L Listen and be authentic, E Energise and inspire, A Align across the enterprise, D Develop others. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive the operating manual for how we behave.

We're looking for someone with an understanding of financial crime policies and standards and how these apply to both personal and non-personal products and services across the bank and its jurisdictions. In addition, you'll need :