Sanctions Control Delivery Lead

Role: Change Delivery Lead – Sanctions Control Environment

Location: London and Glasgow

Contract duration: 6 Months PAYE only

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Change Delivery Lead for a major Sanctions Control Environment project within a broader Integrated Financial Crime Change Programme at a large financial institution.

The role owns end-to-end planning and implementation for a comprehensive examination of the sanctions control environment, translating regulatory expectations and market practice into prioritised remediation and sustainable control improvements.

This senior role operates across businesses, functions and jurisdictions, partnering closely with Financial Crime Compliance, First Line control owners, Operations, Technology, Data and Change.

The successful candidate will combine strong delivery capability with substantive financial crime controls knowledge, bringing structure to complex analysis and mobilising the organisation around defined outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the Sanctions Control Environment project from examination and problem definition through implementation and sustainable closure.

Core accountabilities:

• Plan and deliver a comprehensive examination of the sanctions control environment against FCA Systems & Controls expectations and relevant market practice.

• Translate findings into clear control assessments, prioritised remediation, delivery plans, milestones, ownership and governance.

• Coordinate policy, process, control, data, technology and operational activity across businesses and functions.

• Partner with control owners and subject-matter experts to design and implement proportionate, sustainable improvements.

• Maintain end-to-end traceability from regulatory expectation and identified gap through remediation, testing and closure evidence.

• Manage risks, issues, dependencies and decisions; resolve blockers and escalate promptly.

• Ensure implementation readiness, effective governance and robust evidence of sustainable control enhancement.

• Provide concise senior reporting and build strong cross-functional relationships.

Candidate Profile

A senior change leader combining financial crime controls expertise with strong delivery discipline.

Essential Experience

• Significant leadership of complex change, transformation, remediation or control enhancement in a large financial institution.

• Strong practical knowledge of financial crime and sanctions control environments.

• Experience of control environment examinations, control assessments and translating findings into executable remediation.

• Delivery across multiple businesses, functions and senior stakeholders, including First and Second Lines of Defence.

• Ability to turn ambiguity into defined deliverables, accountable ownership and credible plans.

• Strong governance, stakeholder, risk, issue and dependency management.

Highly Desirable

Experience in one or more of the following:

• Sanctions or wider financial crime systems and controls reviews.

• Regulatory expectation and market-practice benchmarking.

• Control design, operating effectiveness assessment and remediation.

• Regulatory or internal audit remediation and sustainable closure.

Key Capabilities

• Bring clarity to complexity: turn interconnected regulatory, policy, process, data, technology and operational issues into a clear route to resolution.

• Drive delivery: maintain momentum, establish accountability and convert analysis and decisions into implementation.

• Challenge constructively: test assumptions and pursue sustainable solutions over short-term fixes.

• Operate across boundaries: navigate competing priorities, ownership and governance across businesses and functions.

• Communicate with senior stakeholders: distil complexity, clarify decisions and provide confidence in delivery.

• Focus on the control outcome: ensure change delivers the required sanctions risk outcome, not merely completed activity.

What Success Looks Like

The Sanctions Control Environment project operates through a coherent, well-governed delivery structure with:

• Clear scope, assessment methodology, target outcomes and accountable ownership.

• Credible plans, milestones and cross-functional dependency management.

• Prioritised, sustainable remediation that strengthens the sanctions control environment.

• Transparent senior reporting, end-to-end traceability and robust closure evidence.

The role suits someone equally comfortable discussing sanctions controls with specialists and giving concise delivery assessments to senior executives.

This is an ownership role—not programme administration. The successful candidate will create structure around a complex control examination and drive agreed improvements through to resolution.

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.