Financial Crime Agile Testing Team Lead
Barclays · Posted Oct 27
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays' Financial Crime team provides data-led oversight and check and challenge on compliance matters, including financial crime risk, investigations, and control testing. The role leads an agile testing capability to assure and strengthen financial crime controls, drive testing strategy, and influence senior stakeholders. It also involves line management, project delivery, and collaboration across Compliance, 1LOD, and risk management.
What you will do
- Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems to.
- Identification and investigation of potential market abuse, including but not limited to, Insider Dealing, Unlawful Disclosure, Market Manipulation or Anti-Competitive Conduct.
- Conduct investigation of compliance risk events or breaches.
- Oversight and check and challenge of corrective actions and preventative measures to avoid future occurrences.
- Implementation of compliance policies and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and ensuring that the bank’s internal policies are aligned with international standards, including jurisdictional requirements.
- Collaboration with 1LOD, other relevant Compliance teams and legal, and relevant risk management functions to facilitate a comprehensive approach to compliance and risk management.
- Identification, investigation and oversight of potential money laundering, terrorist financing or other financial crime.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Experience in Financial Crime Assurance or Control Testing within a 2nd line function including understanding of investigative processes and control or hypothesis testing.
- Strong risk and control mindset, with the ability to identify, assess, test, and challenge compliance and financial crime risks across business activities, processes, systems, and controls.
- Line management and project management experience, including leading teams, managing day-to-day delivery, developing colleagues, and driving performance against priorities.
Preferred qualifications
- Stakeholder management experience, with the ability to engage, influence, and provide check and challenge to senior stakeholders across Compliance, 1LOD, and risk management functions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills to produce clear testing outputs, senior-level materials, memos, and communications that support the insights, observations or outcomes.
- Experience in advisory or consulting roles, agile delivery, and use of case management systems (like Salesforce) to support testing, oversight, and continuous improvement.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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