Head of IB Financial Crime Investigations

Purpose of the role

The Head of Investment Banking Financial Crime Investigations will provide strategic leadership and oversight for money laundering, bribery, corruption and sanctions investigations carried out in the first line of defence. This role is accountable for the design, execution, and continuous improvement of investigative frameworks to detect, assess, and mitigate financial crime risks, ensuring compliance with global financial crime regulatory standards while enabling sustainable business growth.

The individual will act as a delegate for the Head of IB Financial Crime, representing the function in senior forums and leading strategic initiatives. This role is responsible for managing a team carrying out financial crime investigations across Banking, Markets and the International Corporate Bank. The individual will ensure the bank meets regulatory expectations and internal standards while enabling sustainable business growth.

Accountabilities

Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Define and implement the global investigations strategy for the Investment Bank, aligned with enterprise-wide Financial Crime objectives.
• Serve as the senior accountable executive for all financial crime investigations, including AML, sanctions reporting and bribery and corruption issues.
• Act as a delegate for the Head of IB Financial Crime in senior governance forums and regulatory engagements.

Investigations Oversight

• Lead and manage the execution of complex investigations arising from transaction monitoring alerts, internal escalations, and external referrals.
• Support the timely and accurate filing of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and other regulatory submissions.
• Oversee the design and maintenance of investigative procedures, quality assurance frameworks, and risk-based methodologies.

Regulatory & Risk Management

• Ensure adherence to AML and Global Sanctions requirements, as well as internal policies and standards.
• Drive continuous improvement in investigative controls, leveraging data analytics and emerging technologies.

People Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing investigations team across multiple locations.
• Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and collaboration across first and second lines of defence.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours 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.

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