Financial Crime Advisory Manager – Investment Bank

Job Description Purpose of the Role

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.

Accountabilities

• 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 the 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 and assessing 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.
• 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 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.

Vice President Expectations

• 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 elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Lead specialists to influence the operations of a department, aligning with strategic and tactical priorities while balancing short and long term goals, ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver a consistently excellent standard.
• For an individual contributor, serve as a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction.
• Lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments.
• Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• In‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem‑solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Additional Expectations

• All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Role Overview – Investment Banking Financial Crime Advisory

You will be responsible for supporting and executing the First Line Financial Crime program across Banking, Markets and the International Corporate Bank.

This role will work closely with the business, the second‑ and third‑line stakeholders, to ensure the business is compliant with all internal Financial Crime standards, policies, procedures and applicable laws and regulations.

As part of Barclays Europe Financial Crime Execution Team, you will be responsible for executing the strategic direction of the Financial Crime program in Europe and performing advisory, governance and other oversight responsibilities.

Key Qualifications

• Subject Matter Expertise in Financial Crime risks and regulation (Anti‑Money Laundering, Counter‑Terrorist Financing, Sanctions and Anti‑Bribery & Corruption).
• Ability to use financial crime tools and analytical results to identify risk patterns, anomalies and control gaps.
• Effectively address second line feedback and challenges to the risk and controls strategy implementation.
• Experience in taking risk decisions, defining action plans, implementing control enhancements, and managing escalation for senior management and/or governance and oversight forums.
• Experience in managing projects.
• Proven strategic leadership skills.
• Strong capacity to analyse, summarise, and communicate effectively.
• Risk management judgement, ability to make risk‑based decisions that balance regulatory integrity with operational practicality to drive global consistency.
• Ownership mindset with the aim to resolve issues, remove blockers, and maintain execution pace across multiple initiatives.
• Proficient in speaking German or French.
• Experience working with FinTech products.

Location

This role is located in Paris, Frankfurt or Dublin.