Overview
Join us as an Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) Programme Manager at Barclays, where you will be responsible for broader, strategic objectives across multiple projects, with a long‑term, cross‑functional focus.
Portfolio Overview
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.
Qualifications
* Evidence of successful project/programme delivery as a senior project manager/programme manager/VP level or equivalent.
* Operating at senior stakeholder management level as an effective communicator.
* Experience of complex cross‑business, global delivery e.g. Groupwide not limited to local change.
* Experience at either financial services firm or big four consultancy (highly valued).
* Financial crime experience (highly valued).
* People management experience (highly valued).
Location
This role will be based in Knutsford, Manchester, or Glasgow.
Purpose of the Role
Responsible for broader, strategic objectives across multiple projects, with a long‑term, cross‑functional focus.
Accountabilities
* Scope Management – Oversees a collection of related projects that together aim to achieve broader strategic business objectives.
* Strategic Focus – Focuses on strategic, high‑level outcomes, responsible for the overall success and continuous alignment of projects to the organization’s business strategy.
* Time Horizon – Works over a longer time horizon, as programmes may span months or years and involve multiple phases and projects.
* Stakeholder Management – Manages a wide range of stakeholders across various projects, ensuring communication and alignment across all projects within the program.
* Risk and Issue Management – Manages risks and issues at a higher level, focusing on cross‑project dependencies and potential impacts on the broader program or business strategy.
* Resource Management – Responsible for allocating resources across multiple projects, balancing priorities, and ensuring that resources are used efficiently across the program.
* Financial Management – Manages the overall program budget, tracking the financial health of multiple projects and ensuring that the program as a whole delivers value.
* Metrics – Measures success based on the cumulative benefits delivered by all the projects within the program.
* Change Management – Deals with change at a macro level, ensuring that changes across projects are managed cohesively and don’t negatively impact the overall program.
Vice President Expectations
* Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change; plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes and deliver continuous improvements.
* Define job roles and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs, counsel employees on performance, and influence operations of a department while balancing short and long‑term goals.
* Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
* Act as subject matter expert within own discipline, guide technical direction and lead collaborative multi‑year assignments, train and coach less experienced specialists.
* Advise key stakeholders on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
* Manage and mitigate risks; demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls.
* Collate comprehensive understanding of organisation functions to contribute to achieving business goals.
* Collaborate with other areas of work to keep pace with business activity and strategy.
* Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
* Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives.
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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