Join Barclays as Vice President, Head of Corporate Onboarding where you'll play a pivotal role in maintaining KYC (Know Your Customer) and regulatory information held for our clients. Your role will be responsible for protecting Barclays Corporate Bank against regulatory and / or reputational risk from financial crime – anti-terrorist, ant money laundering, sanctions, corruption or bribery. At Barclays, we don't just anticipate the future - we're creating it. You'll also have the opportunity to work closely with key internal clients that includes include senior leaders in Corporate Banking Operations, Sales/Coverage, Financial Crime, Risk & Control, Compliance and Technology.

To be successful in this role, you should have,

Extensive experience in an AML (Anti-money Laundering) or Financial Crime or EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) role along with expertise in Global KYC (Know Your Client) and CDD (Customer Due Diligence).

Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills.

Ability to coach and develop teams in a collaborative approach and good stakeholder management.

Ability to re-imagine and transform operations to keep up with the ever-changing KYC/AML landscape, through digitization and leveraging lean, RPA (Robotic Process Automation) to drive down operational costs, maximize value creation for clients, stakeholders and colleagues, while remaining compliant.

Good control awareness, including an understanding of the key controls required in KYC Operations.

Some other highly valued skills may include,

Excellent MS Office skills.

Exceptional people management skills.

Degree level education, supplemented by a professional qualification such as, CAMs (Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist), ICA (International Compliance Association) or equivalent.

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

This role is based in our Pune office.

Purpose of the role

To manage operations within a business area and maintain processes, risk management initiatives and compliance with relevant regulators. 

Accountabilities

Identification of trends and opportunities to improve areas and develop new process and procedures through the monitoring and analysis of operation data and performance metrices.Management of operations for a business area and promote efficient processes, risk management and compliance initiatives to support the bank's operations.Collaboration with internal stakeholders (including business leaders, project manager and SMEs) and external stakeholders (including vendors and service providers) to support business operations and promote alignment with the bank's objectives and SLAs.Management of operational professionals and provide guidance, coaching and support to improve colleagues' delivery quality.Management and development of KPIs to measure the effectiveness of operation functions, utilising data and technology to support the identification of areas that require improvement.Compliance with all regulatory requirements and internal policies related to customer experience.Creation of a safe environment for colleagues to speak up, actively and regularly encourage and solicit feedback to ensure people agenda remains focused on the right areas.Management of attrition by working closely with HR in implementing retention initiatives for work force.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.