# Financial Crime Lawyer

**Company**: Barclays
**Location**: Canary Wharf, 1 Churchill Place
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Financial Crime Lawyer to join our team in London or Manchester. The successful candidate will provide consistently excellent, timely, high-quality, and commercially focused legal and regulatory advice on complex anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) matters.

The purpose of this role is to ensure that the institution's activities are conducted in compliance with applicable financial crime laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with its activities.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing and implementing best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance

- Providing legal advice and support to the business on financial crime laws, regulations, and rules, including AML, sanctions, and ABC laws and regulations

- Supporting other legal teams in representation of the bank in legal proceedings that raise financial crime issues

- Advising on financial crime compliance policies and procedures, including assessing compliance with applicable laws and regulations

- Conducting legal research and analysis to stay up-to-date on changes in laws and regulations that may impact the bank's financial crime compliance practices

- Supporting Compliance in delivering training to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to financial crime

- Pro-actively identifying, communicating, and providing legal advice on applicable laws, rules, and regulations

As a Vice President, you will be expected to:

- Contribute to 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

- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls

- Collaborate with other areas of work to provide business-aligned support

- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives

The ideal candidate will have:

- Qualified lawyer (Solicitor, Barrister, Attorney, or equivalent)

- Advisory experience in AML, ABC, CTF, or Sanctions

- Understanding of the requirements of legal risk management in a financial institution

- Previous experience working in-house within the financial services industry, or experience representing the financial services industry in other contexts

This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, providing expert legal advice and guidance on financial crime matters.

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## Skills

### Required
- AML
- ABC
- CTF
- Sanctions
- Legal risk management

### Nice to have
- In-house experience in financial services
- Experience representing financial services industry

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