Compliance Model Validation Avp

Job Title: Compliance Model Validation AVP
Location: Noida

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

Working Flexibly

Hybrid Working
Structured hybrid role:
Introduction:
1. Provide independent review (IR) and challenge of different aspects of model (Model Design, conceptual soundness, performance, data quality, outcome analysis, governance and controls etc.), to a high degree of depth as required by and detailed in the Bank’s policies and standards. Domains and models types include:
a. Compliance - Financial Crime, Transaction Monitoring, Anti Money Laundering(AML), Market/Trade Surveillance etc.
b. Both statistical and scenarios/rules based models built using tools/techniques such as Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (Large Language model - LLM, Natural Language Processing - NLP, Random Forests, Gradient Boosted Machines, Deep Neural Networks etc.) as well as decision trees, cluster analysis and logistic regression.
2. Provide input to/support the governance and reporting processes related to model risk management. This role will be part of Model Risk Management team.

What will you be doing?
1. Model Validation
a. Validate statistical as well as scenarios/rules based models across Compliance - Financial Crime, Transaction Monitoring, Anti Money Laundering(AML), Market/Trade Surveillance etc., in accordance with the Bank’s governance policies and standards.
b. Perform technical analysis and/or build alternative benchmarks to new and existing models, in line with the requirements set out in the bank’s standards and policies.

2. Governance and Reporting
a. Review regulatory requirements to ensure compliance with different regulatory guidelines e.g. SR 11-7, PRA, FRB, NYDFS etc..
b. Support the development and review conformance with appropriate bank policies including Group Model Risk policy.

What we’re looking for:

- Advanced understanding of the quantitative techniques used in developing and validating Compliance models including Financial Crime, Transaction Monitoring, Anti Money Laundering, Market/Trade Surveillance

a. Both statistical and scenarios/rules based models including Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (Large Language model - LLM, Natural Language Processing - NLP, Random Forests, Gradient Boosted Machines, Deep Neural Networks etc.) as well as decision trees, cluster analysis and logistic regression.
- Understanding and prior work experience in financial crime typologies (transaction monitoring and market/trade surveillance).
- Strong analytical skills with hands on experience developing or validating predictive machine learning models on large data sets in in Hadoop/AWS environments using tools such as Python, R, SAS, Spark and MLLib.
- Expert user of Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office tools.
- An ability to identify and analyse appropriate external data sources for model development or validation.

Education
- Masters in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Operational Research, Engineering, MBA

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Relevant experience in a modeller/validator role in the financial services industry.
- Certifications/courses in Machine Learning, Compliance (Financial Crime, Transaction Monitoring, Anti Money Laundering, Market/Trade Surveillance etc.)

Where will you be working?
Noida

Be More at Barclays
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.

Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.

Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.

Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.

Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empo