Join us as a Fraud Customer Care Agent, where you'll be the first point of contact for our customers, offering empathetic and understanding support during challenging situations. With a passion for delivering excellent customer service, you will help protect customers from fraudulent activity, ensuring they feel valued, reassured, and secure. You'll be part of a supportive team with experienced mentors who will provide full training and ongoing guidance, ensuring you have everything you need to succeed in this critical role at Barclays.
To Excel In This Role, You Should Have
Demonstrated experience in telephony-based work, handling high call volumes and varied customer needs
Strong resilience, maintaining performance and composure under pressure
Consistent patience when managing complex or challenging interactions
High level of accuracy supported by hands‑on experience in detail‑critical tasks
Ability to learn quickly and apply new information effectively
Adaptability to change
Desirable Skills
Proven fraud investigation experience, including identifying suspicious activity and mitigating risk
Skilled in supporting vulnerable customers with empathy, clarity, and appropriate safeguarding measures
Prior experience within banking or insurance environments, with strong understanding of industry standards
Previous roles in KYC and complaints handling, ensuring compliance and delivering fair customer outcomes
You may be assessed on 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.
Shift pattern: Monday to Sunday 7AM to 11PM (7 hours shift 5 days per week)
We are happy to consider those who can work from our Northampton site.
Purpose of the role
To provide exceptional customer service while resolving more complex customer needs/requests.
Accountabilities
Provision of customer service through various communication channels including chat, email and phone.
Execution of customer service requirements to resolve more complex, specific customer needs, and give a unique, personalised resolution for each case.
Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate customer care processes.
Identification of areas for improvement to provide recommendations for change in customer care processes and provide feedback and coaching for colleagues on these highlighted areas.
Development and implementation of customer care procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain efficient operations.
Resolution of specific customer inquiries and issues related to the bank's products and service, including account balances, transactions and payments.
Development and execution of reports and presentations on customer care performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice to improve customer care efficiency and effectiveness.
Analyst Expectations
To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
Partner with other functions and business areas.
Takes responsibility for end results of a team's operational processing and activities.
Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.
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.