BBPLC Lead - Vice President

Join us as a "BBPLC Lead - Barclays Global Service Centre" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences. The purpose of Compliance is to provide oversight of the management of Compliance, Financial Crime and Reputation Risk, through being an influential Compliance function that combines technical expertise with effective risk management to achieve the right conduct outcomes. Compliance participates in the prevention, detection, and management of breaches of applicable laws, rules, regulations, and procedures and has a key role in helping Barclays achieve the right conduct outcomes and evolve a conduct-focused culture.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Control Room, KYC & Pan BOC, as well as job-specific skillsets. The Vice President reporting into the Head of BBPLC Compliance - India and APAC Head of Corporate Bank Compliance, will take responsibility of providing compliance oversight on the BBPLC aligned Transaction cycles operating out of Barclays Global Services Centre Private Limited and also  leading the three teams that make up BBPLC’s Business Oversight Compliance (BOC) Strategic Hub, which operates out of Barclays Global Service Centre – Pune, India. These three teams are - Control Room, Know-Your-Client (KYC) Advisory and Pan BOC.

 

To be successful as a " BBPLC Lead - Barclays Global Service Centre", you should have experience with:

• Providing oversight and proactive management of Compliance risk for a global banking business subject to the jurisdiction and oversight of major regulators. Direct accountability of the compliance oversight on the BBPLC aligned Transaction cycles operating out of Barclays Global Services Centre Private Limited
• Set and drive forward strategy and provide leadership across a large team, covering multiple compliance disciplines.
• Proactively engage and advise senior stakeholders, including business and functional leadership teams.
• Participate in and represent Compliance on senior leadership committees, control forums and working groups - providing updates on Compliance matters, critical oversight and challenge of stakeholder updates and opining on issues as required.
• Working with Functional-Leads from KYC, Control Room and Chief Compliance Office teams to achieve global alignment and ensure one-Compliance-mindset .
• Acting as a point of escalation for the KYC, Control Room and Pan BOC teams and matters related to their coverage, including issues and queries arising from the business and senior stakeholders and monitoring of performance metrics.
• Proactively seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influence and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
• Proven track record of providing advice, guidance and interpretation of laws, rules, and regulations.
• Technical and product related knowledge across BBPLC’s main business areas (Investment Banking, Markets, Private Banking, Transaction Banking and Consumer Banking).
• Ability to operate and drive activity autonomously or collectively as a team. Be able to consider multiple options from different perspectives to identify pragmatic and effective solutions.
• Leading and executing global projects and global change-management initiatives with multiple regulatory impact points - delivering proportionate and pragmatic solutions.
• Be confident and comfortable in articulating rationale and approach for decision making to senior stakeholders in a succinct and concise manner.
• Drive the implementation of compliance policies and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and ensuring that the bank’s internal policies are aligned with international standards, including jurisdictional requirements.
• Lead training initiatives for business stakeholders as well as for the team

 

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Proven Compliance experience in a business-facing advisory role.
• Experience of providing Compliance advisory support, ensuring a consistent quality and alignment of advice provided.
• Leading and contributing to global change programs relating to Compliance.
• Strategic mindset and ability to translate new, novel or high-level requirements into practical, proportionate advice.
• Experience of working in a global organizational environment.
• Understanding of risk and control frameworks.
• Be comfortable in fast moving and complex environments and be able to move effortlessly between strategic topics to day-to-day requirements.
• Ability to lead and manage diverse teams.

 

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Degree or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of the rules and regulations relating to the Control Room and Anti-Money Laundering/ KYC requirements.
• Able to work in a fast paced, time sensitive environment.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Assertive and confident manner.

 

This role will be based out of Pune.