Sanctions Alerts Advisory Avp

**Date live**:
05/24/2025
**Business Area**:
Compliance
**Area of Expertise**:
Compliance
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000047324
Compliance is a broad, multidisciplinary function at Barclays that oversees our global business operations. We ensure the bank lives its values, meets regulatory requirements, and follows our codes of conduct. Compliance helps manage financial affairs safely, prevents crime, and eliminates bad practices, acting as guardians for customers, colleagues, assets, shareholders, and reputation. This vital, challenging, and rewarding role protects customers, defends our reputation, and defines our business practices. Without Compliance, Barclays could not operate.
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Join us as a Sanctions Alert Advisory AVP at Barclays, where you will be responsible for supporting the Sanctions function to drive the effective delivery, oversight, and risk management for sanctions alerts escalations. Your role will involve assessing and reviewing sanction risks in respect of alerts escalated to Sanctions Compliance. This covers all the business units across Barclays and supports in the delivery of the Financial Crime objectives.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Sanctions Alert Advisory, as well as job-specific skillsets.
To be successful as a Sanctions Alert Advisory AVP, you should have experience with:
**Essential Qualifications**:
Excellent understanding of OFAC, OFSI, EU, and UN sanctions laws, regulations, regulatory expectations, and industry best practice.
Sound judgement, attention to detail and the ability and confidence to make business critical decisions.
Self-confidence to articulate opinions in the face of contrary views, where necessary.
**Desirable skillsets**:
Experience of FircoSoft and or OWS.
A background in sanctions or financial crime.
A solid understanding of the Barclays Group/Business Units and its major customer/payments processing systems.
This role will be based out of Pune.
Purpose of the role
Accountabilities
Understanding the objectives of the Global Sanctions Function and the control frameworks and embed a culture of compliance with sanctions.
Revision of escalated cases and confirm a True Match in line with regulations/policy accurately and in a timely manner, feeding back on instances of incorrect escalation.
Management and provision of guidance in the completion of complex sanctions investigations, ensuring that matters are correctly managed and follow appropriate escalation routes, while involving the relevant stakeholders early and fully.
Due diligence on Payment Screening alerts to determine the appropriate treatment and next steps for the payment in line with documented procedures following the defined governance process and approvals as required.
Escalation of Customer Screening True Matches to appropriate Business Aligned Sanctions Team for assessment.
Identification of opportunities to drive efficiencies in the alert management process and feed these back to the appropriate team(s) to implement.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed wi