Private Bank International Financial Crime Risk Manager

About This Role

Join us as a Financial Crime Risk Manager working within our Private Bank and Wealth Management team based in Dubai.

The successful candidate will be working directly to support the Head of PB International Financial Crime Risk, providing expert support to the business in a number of areas. This will include supporting Front Office throughout the client lifecycle (from onboarding to exit), supporting the control environment through risk and issue management, governance reporting and management escalations, supporting audit and assurance activities, managing stakeholders in location/beyond, as well as support strategic initiatives. To be successful in this role you must be able to show resilience, flexibility and demonstrate a strategic mindset while building a comprehensive view of the business and interlinked controls.

The role will be suitable with someone with a strong Financial Crime or Risk and Controls background with recent working experience in Dubai, with comparable Private Bank business knowledge also highly desirable. An ability to take responsibility and accountability for decision making evidenced through clear reporting and communication in order to manage risk, strengthen controls and support the business in achieving strategic goals will be required. Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work with a variety of stakeholders at all corporate grades will also be desirable, including building relationships with key functional teams. This role offers flexibility and a dynamic portfolio of work covering multiple aspects of the PBWM business through the lens of Financial Crime Risk support.

While there may not be direct people leadership responsibility initially, the successful candidate will be expected to engage with and support colleagues in location and across the Global teams through direct engagement and feedback.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications

• Strong Financial Crime or Risk and Controls Background, including direct experience in Dubai with recent (last 3 years) knowledge of local rules and requirements.
• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, in English.
• Analytical mindset to identify weakness in controls, and drive remediation.
• Ability to work collaboratively across stakeholder groups and produce key outcomes and deliverables.

Desirable Skills/Preferred Qualification

• Fluent in local language
• Private Bank or Wealth Management business knowledge
• Project Management or Change delivery experience
• Relevant external qualifications

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.

Purpose of the role To assess the integrity and effectiveness of the banks internal control framework to support the mitigation of risk and protection of the banks operational, financial, and reputational risk.

Accountabilities

• Knowledge of business areas, products, processes and platforms to be able to assess risk
• Collaboration with various stakeholders across the bank and business units to improve overall control effectiveness through detailed documentation of control assessments, procedures, and findings.
• Identification and investigation of potential weaknesses and issues within internal controls to promote continuous improvement and risk mitigation aligned to the bank’s control framework, prioritised by its severity to disrupt bank operations.
• Development of reports to communicate key findings from risk assessment including control weaknesses and recommendations to control owners, senior management, and other stakeholders.
• Execution of reviews to determine the effectiveness of the bank's internal controls framework aligned to established and evolving policies, regulation, and best practice.
• Implementation of adherence to the Barclays Controls Framework and set appropriate methodology of assessing controls against the Controls Framework.

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.