Description
We are seeking an Assistant Vice President Financial Crime Risk Transaction Monitoring Control Owner to join our team. The successful candidate will have 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 role will focus predominantly on the development and optimisation of Surveillance TM solutions for in-scope Barclays UK (BUK) and Barclays International (BI) businesses/locations.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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, including credit risk assessment, fraud detection, customer segmentation, and marketing optimisation.
- 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.
Assistant Vice President Expectations:
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
- Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Requirements:
- 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, ensuring adherence to action and escalation procedures.
- Experience using analytical tools for data exploration, analysis, and visualization.
Highly Valued Skills:
- Experience coding in SQL, Scala, Spark, Python, etc.
- Appreciation of financial crime, AML, and transaction monitoring/detection systems and processes, including AML and terrorist financing trends and typologies.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a considerable record of building relationships and engaging with technical and non-technical stakeholders across functions.