Director, Head of Economic Crime Tools & Models, Business Banking

Key Accountabilities

• An Economic Crime Models & Data Lead combines deep financial crime risk knowledge, disciplined model risk governance, and advanced analytics expertise, and can prove to regulators that models genuinely improve crime detection outcomes.

• Strategic ownership of Economic Crime & tax tools and models, covering design, implementation, efficacy, optimisation and ongoing performance management of multiple models, including but not limited to Transaction Monitoring, Screening, Risk assessment models, End User Applications and Tax reporting. Experienced in data and MI led functions, outcomes testing, audits, regulatory scrutiny and issue remediation.

• Strong understanding of model risk and governance, including model development, validation, tuning, limitations, inventories, bias, drift, and regulatory compliance expectations.

• Ability to translate financial crime risk and typologies into defensible effective tooling, ensuring tools and models are risk‑based, scalable and aligned to the threat landscape and able to explain reasons for and impacts of features, scenarios and thresholds changes.

• Data architecture, Quality & Governance:  Understanding of data architecture, lineage, controls and Governance.

• Future Focused: Develop and implement future-state operating models that integrate new capabilities (e.g., machine learning, AI, Natural Language Processing, transaction monitoring systems) to improve detection, investigation, and reporting efficiency across all financial crime risk domains with an awareness of AI risk and principles.

• Senior stakeholder and regulatory engagement, within a complex organisation, provide credible outcome, evidence led delivery leadership and cross functional partnership to gain buy in and manage risks and expectations. Provide executive level transparent progress reporting and be confident in challenge at SMF’s, ExCo, Board and Regulator level. Balancing risk appetite, customer impact, cost and regulatory expectations when investing in or changing EC tooling.

  ·  Leadership: Experience of building and leading functions of financial crime teams, reacting to policy and strategic change to build fit for purpose and relevant capabilities

Purpose of the role

To support the Risk Function in delivering it’s objective of safeguarding the bank's financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.

Accountabilities

• Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
• Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.

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.