Economic Crime Education Awareness Lead

Join us as an Economic Crime Education Awareness Lead, where you will be responsible for all Business Banking Economic Crime Education, leading the strategy to build awareness and capability across the function by identifying gaps through threat assessments, analysing data, and evaluating weaknesses in controls to address risks. You will design and deliver impactful training embedded into bank processes, ensuring frontline teams are equipped to prevent, detect and respond to Economic Crime threats, while supporting external qualifications across Business Banking Financial Crime and Controls teams. Working closely with stakeholders, you will use management information and governance to drive oversight and continuous improvement for Business Banking frontline colleagues. This role requires leadership and line management experience, with accountability for developing people, fostering a culture of awareness, and ensuring consistent, high quality delivery of education aligned to evolving regulatory and threat landscapes.

To be successful as an Economic Crime Education Awareness Lead, you should have experience with:

• In-depth Financial Crime & Fraud policy and regulatory knowledge

• In-depth understanding of the end-to-end training landscape (training needs analysis, design, delivery, governance, controls testing, reporting)

• Stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence key decisions with the assistance of factual data-based evidence

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to challenge effectively and provide robust input on risk and control issues

• Leadership experience - developing and managing a team of colleagues while fostering a productive work environment

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• ICA qualification in a relevant Financial Crime discipline

• Experience in Business Banking

• Control mindset: able to monitor training as a control, assess effectiveness, identify gaps/weaknesses, and drive remediation.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

This role will be located in Glasgow or Canary Wharf.

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.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

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.