Sanctions Specialist

Join us as a Sanctions Specialist at Barclays, where you will be responsible for supporting the Sanctions function to review, assess and effectively disposition L5 sanctions alerts escalations thus safeguarding the bank from regulatory and reputational risk. Your role will also require you to contribute and drive the effective delivery, oversight, and risk management in Sanctions Compliance.  This covers all the business units across Barclays and supports in the delivery of the Financial Crime objectives.

 

To be successful in this role, you should have below skills:

• Independently conclude on sanctions escalations from L1-L4, therefore essentially approve or reject payments for true or potential true hits based on sound interpretation of OFAC, OFSI, EU, and UN sanctions laws and regulations.

• Analyse SWIFT MT/MX messages, raise and assess RFIs, and synthesize transaction intelligence to support final defensible and regulatory compliant sanctions conclusions.

• Exhibit strong sanctions knowledge, attention to detail and clearly articulate to support sanctions decisions to audit or relevant authority.

 

Some other highly valued skills may include below:

• Experience of doing payment or customer screening in FircoSoft and OWS respectively or similar systems.

• Relevant background of working in sanctions or financial crime.

• Drive process efficiency and effectiveness improvements.

 

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Sanctions Alert Advisory, as well as job-specific skillsets.

 

This role will be based out of Pune and support UK working hours.