# Investment Banking Financial Crime Client Risk Governance & Risk Appetite Lead

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Investment Banking Financial Crime Client Risk Governance & Risk Appetite Lead is accountable for the design, operation and continuous enhancement of the Financial Crime client risk governance framework across the relevant Investment Banking businesses.

**Key Accountabilities**

- Lead and evolve client risk governance and escalation frameworks.

- Lead and develop a high-performing governance team with clear accountabilities, service standards and succession plans.

- Oversee Financial Crime Risk Appetite governance and exceptions management.

- Produce executive-level committee reporting and risk insights.

- Drive governance transformation, control enhancement and regulatory readiness.

- Partner with senior stakeholders to influence complex risk decisions.

- Act as the principal 1LoD governance contact for senior Business stakeholders, Financial Crime Responsible Executives, Compliance, MLROs, Legal and relevant control functions on client risk governance and risk appetite.

- Prepare senior leaders for material forum decisions and executive governance discussions.

- Lead simplification and enhancement of the client risk governance landscape.

- Design and embed sustainable operating processes and metrics for escalation initiation, case tracking, prioritisation, breach management, decision implementation and evidence retention.

- Define requirements for supporting technology, workflow and document repositories, partnering with delivery and operational teams on implementation.

**Essential experience**

- Significant experience in Financial Crime, risk, controls, compliance, governance or a related discipline within a complex financial services organisation.

- Demonstrable experience designing, leading or enhancing senior governance forums and producing executive-level committee reporting.

- Considerable knowledge of client risk governance, financial crime risk appetite, escalation, risk acceptance and decision-making frameworks.

- Experience operating across Investment Banking, Corporate Banking and/or Markets, with an understanding of complex client, product and jurisdictional risk.

- Proven ability to provide credible challenge and influence senior stakeholders across the first and second lines of defence and partner functions.

- Excellent written communication, with the ability to convert complex risk information into succinct executive narrative and decision-ready materials.

- Experience managing multiple recurring governance cycles alongside transformation, remediation or control enhancement activity.

- Experience leading and developing teams in a high-accountability environment.

## Skills

### Required
- Financial Crime
- risk management
- governance
- compliance
- leadership

### Nice to have
- KYC/CDD
- sanctions
- adverse information
- PEP
- suspicious activity
- high-risk sector governance
- governance workflow
- reporting automation
- document management
- committee collaboration tools

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