Financial Crime Lawyer
As a Financial Crime Lawyer, your role will be to provide consistently excellent, timely, high quality and commercially focused legal and regulatory advice on complex anti‑money laundering (AML), counter‑terrorist financing (CTF), sanctions, and anti‑bribery and corruption (ABC) matters.
You will also provide expertise and leadership for significant investigations involving AML/CTF, sanctions and ABC alongside leading policy efforts for AML/CTF, sanctions and ABC issues.
Purpose of the role
To ensure that the institution’s activities are conducted in compliance with applicable financial crime laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with its activities.
Accountabilities
* Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance.
* Legal advice and support to the business on financial crime laws, regulations, and rules, including anti‑money laundering (AML), sanctions, and anti‑bribery and corruption (ABC) laws and regulations.
* Support other legal teams in representation of the bank in legal proceedings that raise financial crime issues, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
* Advising on financial crime compliance policies and procedures including to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
* Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws and regulations that may impact the bank’s financial crime compliance practices.
* To support Compliance, contributing to and delivering training to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to financial crime.
* Pro‑active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.
Essential Skills
* Qualified lawyer (Solicitor, Barrister, Attorney or equivalent).
* Experience in AML, ABC, CTF, or Sanctions.
Additional Highly Valued Skills
* Understanding of the requirements of legal risk management in a financial institution.
* Previous experience working in‑house within the financial services industry, or experience representing the financial services industry in other contexts, e.g., law firm.
Other Relevant Skills
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.
Location
This role can be based in London or Glasgow.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Legal
Industries
Banking and Financial Services
Values
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.
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