Date live:26/08/2025
Business Area:Product Operations and Control
Area of Expertise:Risk and Quantitative Analytics
Contract:Permanent
Reference Code:JR-0000067172
Join us as a Financial Crime Governance and Controls Manager where you will be supporting the Fraud team within Barclays UK. In this role, you will strengthen the governance framework, oversee risk management, and ensure effective issue escalation and resolution. You will take ownership of creating and coordinating content for a monthly Risk & Control Oversight meeting, providing ongoing support to senior stakeholders and leaders across the business. You will be responsible for delivering insightful reporting on key metrics and control performance, highlighting trends, emerging risks, and the overall effectiveness of the control environment. In addition, you will establish and lead regular issue management oversight meetings, helping to assess, manage, and escalate risk events where required. This includes evaluating the materiality and impact of issues on the business to ensure a clear understanding of the risk profile. Your expertise will drive governance, clear accountability, and effective controls across Economic Crime.

To be successful as a Financial Crime Governance and Controls Manager, you should have:

• Experience of Governance and Control across Financial Crime.
• Detailed understanding of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework and the operation of activities as part of the Barclays Control Framework or similar including OneRA (One Risk Assessment), Control testing and CERPA (Control Environment and Risk Profile Assessment).
• Ability to influence peers and senior stakeholders by highlighting risks and recommending mitigation strategies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, leveraging PowerPoint, Excel, and Word to analyse large datasets, derive insights, and deliver impactful presentations.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience of RICM (Risks and issues classification matrix) or similar.
• Experience of ORAC or similar.

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.
This role will be based in London, Northampton & Glasgow.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
• Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.

To support the Risk Function in delivering it’s objective of safeguarding the bank’s financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.