Programme Manager - IFC (Integrated Financial Crime)
5 days ago
London
Join us at Barclays as a Programme Manager, working on a multi- year large scale Financial Crime Risk Programme, with responsibility to drive the successful delivery of the priority Financial Crime risk initiatives. Working within the Intelligence, Investigations, and Financial Crime Exits workstream, you will ensure the right focus on the prioritisation and sequencing of global and local initiatives to mitigate Financial Crime risk and support Barclays Strategic Financial Crime objectives. The Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio is a multi-faceted Financial Crime programme of change delivered via over 20 programmes to create a holistic, risk-based and effective Financial Crime environment, strengthen robustness and enhance automation of Financial Crime processes, develop and strengthen our skills and capabilities across all lines of defence and empower our partners, colleagues and customers to identify and prevent Financial Crime by raising awareness of the risks. To be successful in this role, you should have: • Minimum 3 years' experience in Programme Management, leading multi-phased transformation initiatives, including operating model redesign and technology enablement., • Proven track record in Financial Crime Risk delivery execution,and familiarity with Financial Crime Risk Frameworks, including AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, and Fraud., • Solid understanding of programme governance including change control, milestone closure, and risk-based decision-making., • Demonstrated stakeholder management experience with the ability to influence outcomes, resolve issues effectively and manage expectations., • Strong risk management capability in identifying and mitigating risks while maintaining programme integrity., • Delivery experience in Customer Journey/Exits and/or FIU (Finance Intelligence Unit)., • Proficiency in project management methodologies, both structured and Agile practices., • Exposure to Regulatory Programmes., • Experience working in large, matrixed financial environments. This role can be based in London or Glasgow. Purpose of the role Focused on delivering individual projects, ensuring completion within scope, time, and budget with a more immediate focus. Accountabilities • Scope Management: Manages a single project with specific, defined objectives, deadlines, and deliverables. Their focus is on completing the project on time, within scope, and on budget., • Strategic Focus: Operates more tactically, focusing on day-to-day management of resources, schedules, and deliverables for their individual project., • Time Horizon: Works with a shorter, more defined timeframe as projects have a set beginning and end., • Stakeholder Management: Primarily manages stakeholders related to their specific project, ensuring communication and expectations are clear for the project's deliverables., • Risk and Issue Management: Focuses on risks and issues specific to their project and works to mitigate them within the project's scope., • Resource Management: Manages resources for their individual project, ensuring that the project team has the necessary skills, tools, and time to complete the work., • Financial Management: Focuses on managing the budget of their specific project, ensuring it is completed within the financial constraints., • Metrics: Measures success based on the timely completion of project deliverables within scope, time, and budget., • 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.