Financial Crime Investigator Lead - Counter Terrorism Finance

Intelligence Development & Investigations - Counter Terrorism Finance Lead

Contract length: 6 Months

Location: London, Canary Wharf 

Department: Financial Crime - Compliance Services 

Job type: Contract

Overall purpose of role

You will work within Intelligence Development and Investigations, their mission is to mitigate the most serious, systemic financial crime risks and threats facing Barclays and the financial system, now and in the future, through an intelligence-led approach.  Collaborating with internal stakeholders and through public-private partnerships, the team leverages bank-wide intelligence, data, analytics and investigations resources in order to:

• Identify and prioritise key financial crime threats;

• Undertake and oversee significant intelligence-led financial crime investigations; and

• Respond to sensitive, high impact and time-critical financial crime threats and issues.

In delivering against these core objectives, IDI will: protect the bank from significant reputational, regulatory and financial crime risks; support the development of improved and sustainable controls; provide highly useful intelligence to government and law enforcement, protecting communities, national security and the global financial system; and raise awareness of threats across the bank and within the communities we serve.  

Key Accountabilities

• Support the delivery of the core objectives including through remaining flexible to respond to financial crime threats emerging from geo-political events and ensure identified areas of priority across all IDI ongoing projects are resourced appropriately.

• Management and oversight of multiple complex and high profile Terrorist Financing investigations; this includes overseeing investigations  of extensive and complex networks of customers and financial associates generated by entity resolution and network analysis software.  Ensuring investigations are completed to a high standard, and completing QC on all  reports on findings and other relevant outputs.

• Provide SME guidance for Terrorist Financing investigations, including supporting in the awareness and dissemination of current and emerging Terrorist Financing threats 

• Management responsibilities include: team lead of 7 investigators, management of workflow including assigning cases and ensuring compliance of productivity targets 

• Provide weekly MI to the Head of IDI, for upward reporting to senior managers, on the progress of investigations and productivity of networks, ultimately seeking to drive down the number of open cases each week

• Provide monthly MI to the Head of IDI, for upward reporting to senior managers, on productivity and any trends

• Provide excellent stakeholder engagement, enabling senior and key stakeholders to successfully discharge their responsibilities and accountabilities including under the Senior Management Regime.

• Assist in ensuring the outcomes from investigations and intelligence led activity are fed-back to the Strategic Intelligence hub within IDI, and embedded in the business and with other internal partners. 

• Work closely with external partners where required in the development of intelligence and management of the Bank’s position on specific cases identified and developed by the team. 

• Fulfil all disclosure obligations under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and Terrorism Act 2000, including assessing when a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR), Defence Against Money Laundering (DAML) or Defence Against Terrorist Financing (DATF) is appropriate. 

About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. It is diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Barclays businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by its service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Values

Everything Barclays does is shaped by its five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The Barclays values inform the foundations of its relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how Barclays measure and reward the performance of colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Diversity

Barclays aims to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to Barclays vision and goals.

Hybrid Working

Barclays is currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Barclays is flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. Barclays also has a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances

Your Benefits

As a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. There’s enrolment in a pension plan (after 12 weeks on assignment) and holiday pay. You’ll also get 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, designed to help you deal with any problems that could be affecting your home or work life. Plus, there’s discounts at heaps of high street shops, restaurants and entertainment - from Asda to Zizzi Italian restaurants.