Thematic Risk Oversight
Barclays · Posted Sep 30
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
The Thematic Risk Oversight team provides data-led oversight, challenge, and guidance to ensure Barclays operates in compliance with legal, regulatory, and ethical obligations. The role focuses on identifying, assessing, and mitigating compliance risks across business activities, including market abuse and financial crime. The AVP will conduct thematic reviews, investigate breaches, and collaborate with Compliance, Legal, Risk, and First Line of Defence stakeholders to strengthen the control environment.
What you will do
- Identify and assess compliance risks through thematic reviews, monitoring activities, process assessments, and business change initiatives.
- Investigate potential market abuse concerns, including insider dealing, unlawful disclosure, market manipulation, and anti-competitive conduct.
- Conduct investigations into compliance breaches and risk events, ensuring appropriate remediation and preventative measures are implemented.
- Provide effective oversight, challenge, and governance to strengthen the control environment.
- Support the implementation and ongoing enhancement of compliance policies and procedures.
- Collaborate with business, Legal, Risk, and Compliance stakeholders to ensure a coordinated approach to risk management.
- Identify, investigate, and oversee potential financial crime risks, including money laundering and terrorist financing concerns.
- Analyse internal and external data to identify emerging themes, trends, and areas of elevated risk.
- Influence stakeholders and support decision-making through effective risk-based recommendations.
- Contribute to enhancing compliance monitoring, governance, and risk management frameworks across the organisation.
- 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
- Strong understanding of Compliance and Risk Management frameworks.
- Experience in identifying, assessing, and monitoring compliance risks across business activities and processes.
- Ability to conduct investigations into compliance breaches, risk events, and regulatory concerns.
- Understanding of market abuse risks, including insider dealing, unlawful disclosure, market manipulation, and anti-competitive conduct.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and identify emerging risk themes.
- Excellent attention to detail and a structured approach to risk assessment and issue management.
- Ability to provide effective challenge while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, both verbal and written.
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of regulatory requirements and compliance obligations within the banking industry.
- Experience working with First Line of Defence (1LOD), Legal, Risk, and Control Functions.
- Understanding of financial crime risks, including money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Ability to perform thematic reviews and identify control gaps.
- Experience working with data analytics to support compliance monitoring and oversight activities.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- High levels of integrity, accountability, and professional judgement.
- Curious mindset with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risk.
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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