PBWM Fin Crime Risk International Lead | Barclays | Geneva | 12m FTC

Are you ready to take on a high-impact role at the forefront of financial crime risk management? Barclays is seeking an experienced Financial Crime Risk Manager to lead our Private Bank International team. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with senior stakeholders, drive key risk strategies, and shape the bank’s approach to managing significant financial crime risks.

As the Financial Crime Risk International lead, you will oversee a team locally in Geneva and have management engagement with teams globally, taking responsibility for supporting the Financial Crime Risk agenda. You will play a pivotal role in leading a monthly senior oversight forum, ensuring that key risk decisions are made effectively and in alignment with regulatory expectations. The role will include reviewing and managing referrals from front office of clients who pose a heightened risk to the business. Acting as a central escalation point, you will be responsible for addressing complex financial crime queries, refining risk procedures, manage issues and assurance engagement, and ensuring consistency across the bank’s wider financial crime framework.

In this role, you will work closely with senior executives, providing high-level reporting and insights on financial crime risks. Your ability to manage stakeholders effectively will be crucial, as you will engage with bankers, central FC Risk teams and teams in 2nd & 3rd Line of defence, and other key business units to ensure a robust approach to financial crime compliance. Additionally, you will be responsible for continuously improving risk procedures, strengthening onboarding protocols, and refining escalation processes to enhance the bank’s financial crime controls. We are looking for a candidate with extensive experience in financial crime and risk management within a complex banking environment. Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills are essential, as well as expertise in high-risk client onboarding and retention processes. The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with a proactive approach to risk mitigation and procedural enhancement.

If you have a passion for financial crime risk management and are ready to make a meaningful impact at a leading global bank, we would love to hear from you.

Essential Skills:

Financial Crime & Risk Management Expertise – Extensive experience in identifying, assessing, and mitigating financial crime risks, particularly in high-risk client onboarding and retention.Stakeholder Management & Senior-Level Reporting – Strong ability to engage with senior executives, lead high-profile forums, and effectively communicate risk insights across the organization.Leadership & Decision-Making – Proven experience in managing a team, overseeing critical risk approvals, and acting as a central escalation point for complex financial crime queries.Language – English mandatory, French strongly preferred

Desirable Skills:

Industry-Specific Financial Crime & Risk Expertise – Extensive experience in assessing and managing financial crime risks across various high-risk industries, such as cryptocurrency and other sectors prone to financial crime vulnerabilities.Market and Geographic Risk Awareness – Knowledge of global financial crime risks, regional regulatory landscapes, and market-specific compliance requirements.Strong Analytical Skills – Ability to assess complex risk scenarios, interpret data, and make informed risk-based decisions.Process & Production Efficiency – Experience in managing workflows, streamlining risk assessment processes, and ensuring timely decision-making.Collaborative Mindset – Strong team player with the ability to engage effectively across different functions, fostering a risk-aware culture within the organization.

This role is based in Geneva.

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

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.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute 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..If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.