CRMs - Sanctions

**Date live**:
01/07/2025
**Business Area**:
Compliance
**Area of Expertise**:
Compliance
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000039422
Compliance is a broad, multidisciplinary function at Barclays that oversees our global business operations. We ensure the bank lives its values, meets regulatory requirements, and follows our codes of conduct. Compliance helps manage financial affairs safely, prevents crime, and eliminates bad practices, acting as guardians for customers, colleagues, assets, shareholders, and reputation. This vital, challenging, and rewarding role protects customers, defends our reputation, and defines our business practices. Without Compliance, Barclays could not operate.
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This role to provide strategic oversight, expert guidance, and business advisory support across the entire Barclays group on sanctions risk management. Reporting directly to the global head of sanctions, this role will be responsible for leading a team of 20 plus sanctions compliance specialists, ensuring that the bank's global sanctions policy, risk appetite, and regulatory obligations are effectively implemented while balancing commercial objectives.
Key responsibilities
Lead and develop a team of 20 plus sanctions compliance specialists providing direction, mentorship and performance management
foster a high performing risk sensitive culture adherence to sanctions policies and regulatory requirements
oversee resource allocation and capability building initiatives within the team to ensure alignment with evolving business and regulatory expectations
Experience
Proven leader with 12+ years pf sanctions compliance experience within a global financial institution, regulatory body or advisory firm
Proven leadership experience managing teams of 15 plus professionals in a compliance, risk, or financial time function
expertise in US, UK, EU, UN and other key sanctions regimes
Deep understanding of financial products and services across retail and wholesale banking
experience engaging with senior regulators and enforcement bodies on sanctions related matters
Purpose of the role
Accountabilities
Understanding the objectives of the Global Sanctions Function and the control frameworks and embed a culture of compliance with sanctions.
Revision of escalated cases and confirm a True Match in line with regulations/policy accurately and in a timely manner, feeding back on instances of incorrect escalation.
Management and provision of guidance in the completion of complex sanctions investigations, ensuring that matters are correctly managed and follow appropriate escalation routes, while involving the relevant stakeholders early and fully.
Due diligence on Payment Screening alerts to determine the appropriate treatment and next steps for the payment in line with documented procedures following the defined governance process and approvals as required.
Escalation of Customer Screening True Matches to appropriate Business Aligned Sanctions Team for assessment.
Identification of opportunities to drive efficiencies in the alert management process and feed these back to the appropriate team(s) to implement.
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