Financial Crime Risk Transaction Monitoring Control Owner - AVP

About the role

As Assistant Vice President, Financial Crime Risk Transaction Monitoring Control Owner, you will play a key part in delivering the FC Transactional Monitoring optimisation and strategy for Barclays UK and Barclays International business and jurisdiction locations. The role focuses mainly on developing and optimising Surveillance TM solutions for in-scope Barclays UK and Barclays International businesses and locations. It can be based in London or Glasgow.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, implement and maintain statistical, mathematical and machine learning models to support decision-making
• Collect data from internal databases, external datasets and real-time feeds, clean and preprocess it, and design data management strategies for model maintenance
• Build and run models for credit risk assessment, fraud detection, customer segmentation and marketing optimisation, and monitor them in real time for issues or bias
• Lead training, mentoring and knowledge sharing to build ML capability, and evaluate emerging technologies and AI tools
• Manage risk and strengthen controls, advise on complex issues and help shape policy and governance
• Lead a team, set objectives, coach staff and appraise performance, or lead collaborative assignments as an individual contributor

Required profile

• Experience implementing, optimising and tuning Transaction Monitoring systems and financial crime controls
• Experience in a regulated environment with risk management, governance and control frameworks
• Knowledge of Transaction Monitoring processes, emerging risks, typologies and regulatory expectations
• Excellent verbal and written communication, able to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Appreciation of financial crime, AML and transaction monitoring/detection systems and processes

Required skills

• Data and analytical tools such as Python and SQL to assess control performance and identify trends
• Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen and strategic thinking