Job at a glance
In addition to providing strategic leadership for Barclays' sanctions governance and oversight framework, the successful candidate will be expected to: Lead the team responsible for second line oversight of First Line of Defence (1LOD) sanctions activities, including governance, effectiveness and performance oversight of customer and transaction screening controls and associated filtering technologies.
Provide leadership and direction to a team of sanctions subject matter experts covering specialist areas including Trade Finance, Securities Services and emerging products such as Digital Assets and tokenised deposits, ensuring sanctions risks are appropriately assessed, managed and governed. Act as a key support to the Global Head of Sanctions, providing leadership across the Sanctions Strategy, Transformation and Oversight function and helping to shape the overall sanctions agenda, operating model and governance framework.
Drive oversight of sanctions risk management frameworks, policies, standards and controls, ensuring they remain aligned with evolving regulatory expectations, geopolitical developments and industry best practice. Lead engagement with senior stakeholders across Compliance, Financial Crime, Operations, Technology and Business leadership teams to deliver effective sanctions governance and risk management outcomes.
Identify, prioritise and deliver strategic transformation initiatives to enhance the effectiveness, efficiency and scalability of the sanctions control environment, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. Support the evolution of screening methodologies, control design and data quality standards to improve risk coverage, reduce operational inefficiencies and strengthen sanctions detection capabilities.
The successful candidate is likely to bring: Deep technical expertise in sanctions screening systems, filtering technologies and customer and transaction screening controls. Strong knowledge of sanctions risk management frameworks, governance, controls and regulatory expectations across global financial institutions. Demonstrated experience leading large, complex sanctions or financial crime teams and developing high-performing specialist functions.
Strong strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical and sustainable operating models. Excellent stakeholder management and influencing capabilities, with experience engaging effectively at Executive Committee and senior leadership level. Proven experience leading transformation, change management and control enhancement programmes within a regulated financial services environment.
A collaborative leadership style with the ability to build strong partnerships across Compliance, Financial Crime, Operations, Technology and Front Office functions. Purpose of the role To identify and conduct the appropriate analysis and due diligence on Sanctions alerts to ensure the appropriate action is taken against customers and payment activity as defined by the Sanctions Standards and Restricted Activity Matrix, ensuring that the organisation adheres to all applicable sanction’s laws and regulations and internal governance, such that client accounts are not held and transactions are not processed in breach of application laws and regulations.
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 an