Financial Crime Quality Assurance Manager

Role: Financial Crime Quality Assurance Manager

Location: Birmingham, London, UK

Overview

We are seeking a detail-oriented Financial Crime professional to focus on high-level Quality Assurance. This role is centered on low-volume, high-complexity checks, requiring a specialist who truly understands the mechanics of Risk Assessment and Enhanced Due Diligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Quality Assurance: Conduct QA on work produced by the Fin Crime execution team, specifically the Risk Assessment Unit (RAU) and EDD sub-teams.

• Perform secondary reviews and checks, maintaining the ability to execute EDD tasks directly when required.

Objectives & Outputs

• Processing SARs and Financial Crime Exits.

• Managing periodic reviews.

• Ensuring the integrity of QA outputs across all execution teams.

Required Experience & Skills

• Core Expertise: Strong background in AML, Financial Crime, and EDD. Comprehensive technical knowledge is more critical for this role than prior QA-specific experience.

• Industry Background: Ideally experienced within International Banking.

• Regulatory Exposure: Deep knowledge of AML/KYC policies and current regulations. Experience with project work following an S166 is highly desirable.

• Detail Orientation: Ability to handle high-detail, complex files within a low-volume environment.

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 measures and rewards 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.