Description
We are seeking a Financial Crime Risk Transaction Monitoring Control Owner to play a key role in contributing and delivering the FC Transactional Monitoring optimisation and strategy for all in-scope Barclays UK (BUK) and Barclays International (BI) business and jurisdiction locations.
The successful candidate will have experience with implementing, optimising, and tuning TM systems or similar financial crime controls, working in a regulated business environment with governance, control, and risk management exposure, and using analytical tools for data exploration, analysis, and visualisation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Acquisition and collection of data from various sources, including internal databases, external datasets, and real-time feeds
- Performing data cleaning and pre-processing tasks to ensure data quality and suitability for model development
- Design and implementation of data management strategies for model maintenance and future development
- Designing, development, and implementation of statistical and machine learning models for various applications
- Monitoring model performance in real-time and identify any potential issues or biases
- Leading training, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing sessions to uplift ML capability across the organisation
- Evaluating and piloting emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks to ensure the organisation remains at the forefront of AI innovation
The role also requires:
- Advising and influencing decision making, contributing to policy development, and taking responsibility for operational effectiveness
- Collaborating closely with other functions/business divisions
- Leading a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function
- Setting objectives and coaching employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraising performance relative to objectives, and determining reward outcomes
Desirable skills and experience include:
- Experience coding in SQL, Scala, Spark, Python, etc.
- Appreciation of financial crime, AML, and transaction monitoring/detection systems and processes
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a considerable record of building relationships and engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders across functions