Join us as a Financial Crime Risk Specialist working within our Private Bank and Wealth Management team based in Geneva.
The successful candidate will be working directly to support the BBSA 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) with a focus on the periodic reviews, supporting the control environment through risk and issue management and managing stakeholders in location/beyond. 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 for someone with a strong Financial Crime or Risk and Controls background with recent working experience in Geneva, 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.
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
- Strong Financial Crime, including direct experience in Geneva with very good knowledge of Swiss rules and requirements
- Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal, in English
- Ability to work collaboratively across stakeholders
Desirable Skills/Preferred Qualification:
- Fluent in English and fluent in French will be a plus
- Private Bank or Wealth Management business knowledge
- 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.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- 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
- 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- 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.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders 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.
