Financial Intelligence Unit Team Leader
New York

As a Barclays Financial Intelligence Unit Team Leader, you will be managing a team of investigators, working with data analysts, investigating financial crime threats and ongoing identification of emerging and key threats. You’re the primary contact for engaging with law enforcement and peers to identify key threats and risk to Barclays and global financial system. Ensuring compliance with internal policies and procedures relating to AML investigations, while meeting statutory and regulatory obligations for reporting suspicious activity.

Salary / Rate Minimum: $145,000
Salary / Rate Maximum: $192,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

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?

• Being responsible for managing engagement with internal and external parties and stakeholders to identify and address relevant threats, assess the impact to the Bank
• Ensuring relevant outcomes from intelligence led activity are embedded in the business and with other internal partners
• Being responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of a team of investigators conducting complex and priority financial crime investigations
• Managing the proactive profiling of internal and external data and the development of intelligence relating to financial crime, with data analytics
• You will be responsible for reviewing and approving case summaries, investigation reports, and SAR filings, ensuring documents are clear and concise and comply with regulatory requirements
• Being responsible for providing oversight and quality assurance of any outputs produced by the team
• Attending senior management and oversight meetings to provide updates on FIU outputs and emerging risks
• Collaborating with other investigation, intelligence, and risk teams within Barclays

What we’re looking for:

• Four-year college degree or international equivalent
• Five years of AML Compliance and Bank Secrecy Act or other relevant experience
• Five years’ experience of intelligence or investigative involving financial crime, terrorism, human trafficking, bribery, corruption, and money laundering
• Five years of experience using Microsoft office applications and internet search tools

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of multiple products including card facilities, correspondent banking and international wire transfers, and investment banking products
• Over two years’ experience of leading or managing others
• 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?

You will be working at our Americas Headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. This 32-story office tower is located in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan and features a cafeteria, fitness center and state-of-the-art LED signage on the facade of the building.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.