Sanctions Specialist

Join us as a Sanctions Advisory Specialist AVP within the Sanctions Advisory Team Corporate Bank in London.

You will be responsible for supporting the Sanctions function to drive the effective delivery, oversight, and risk management of the Sanctions Policy for the respective aligned business. Your role will involve assessing and reviewing sanction risks in respect of areas such as sanctions related controls, customer and transactional sanctions alerts, deal escalations received direct from the business, and KYC referrals with an identified or potential sanctions nexus.

To be successful as a Sanctions Advisory Specialist AVP, you should have experience with;

• Understanding of financial crime or sanctions laws, regulations, regulatory expectations and industry best practice
• Sound judgement and the ability and confidence to make business critical decisions
• Self-confidence to articulate opinions in the face of contrary views, where necessary

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• A background in sanctions or financial crime
• Experience working with the Corporate Bank and Corporate Bank products and services
• A qualification related to compliance such as ICA or ACAMS

This role is based in London with 3 anchor days Mondays, Tuesdays & Wednesdays.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role To identify and conduct the appropriate analysis and due diligence on Sanctions alerts to ensure the appropriate action is taken against customers and payment activity as defined by the Sanctions Standards and Restricted Activity Matrix, ensuring that the organisation adheres to all applicable sanction’s laws and regulations and internal governance, such that client accounts are not held and transactions are not processed in breach of application laws and regulations.

Accountabilities

• Understanding the objectives of the Global Sanctions Function and the control frameworks and embed a culture of compliance with sanctions.
• Revision of escalated cases and confirm a True Match in line with regulations/policy accurately and in a timely manner, feeding back on instances of incorrect escalation.
• Management and provision of guidance in the completion of complex sanctions investigations, ensuring that matters are correctly managed and follow appropriate escalation routes, while involving the relevant stakeholders early and fully.
• Due diligence on Payment Screening alerts to determine the appropriate treatment and next steps for the payment in line with documented procedures following the defined governance process and approvals as required.
• Escalation of Customer Screening True Matches to appropriate Business Aligned Sanctions Team for assessment.
• Identification of opportunities to drive efficiencies in the alert management process and feed these back to the appropriate team(s) to implement.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.