Whippany
As a Barclays Investment Banking AML Investigations Team Leader, you will manage a team of investigators responsible for investigating automated alerts generated by system and manual cases. You’ll review SARs and be a member of the BCI Suspicious Activity Report Review Committee (SARRC) responsible for voting and approving for review by investigators. Ensuring compliant with policies and procedures relating to AML investigations, meeting statutory and regulatory obligations for reporting suspicious activity will be part of your role.
Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We’ve helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
• Managing the day-to-day operations of a team of investigators conducting investigations of automated alerts and referrals from internal and external sources
• Tracking MI on case and investigator productivity, and ensuring case queues are actively managed in line with procedures
• Reviewing and approving case summaries, investigation reports, and SAR filings and ensuring such documents are clear and concise and comply with requirements
• Providing oversight and quality assurance of any outputs produced by the team; providing training to the team and addressing the team’s professional development
• Attending senior management and oversight meetings to provide updates and interfacing with regulators and auditors, and action results from regulatory exams and internal audits
• Collaborating with the Global Surveillance Transaction Monitoring team and Compliance Technology to optimize automated surveillance systems and product risk assessments
• Managing and disseminating monthly global MI highlighting trends and patterns, spikes in automated alerts or internal referrals, and escalating issues
• Helping assess the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls against emerging AML risks and trends
What we’re looking for:
• 4-year college degree or international equivalent
• Over five years of AML Compliance and Bank Secrecy Act or other relevant experience
• More than five years’ experience of using Microsoft office applications and internet search tools
• Experience leading or managing others and working in the investment banking or broker-dealer space
Skills that will help you in the role:
• CAMS certification, CFE, JD or other advanced degree or certification
• Law enforcement or government agency experience in supervising investigations, and leading teams of investigators
Where will you be working?
At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.
