Business Oversight Compliance

**Date live**:
05/08/2025
**Business Area**:
Compliance
**Area of Expertise**:
Compliance
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000046738
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 Assistant Vice President - Head of Compliance for Gift City Branch at Barclays, where you will lead the Compliance function, ensuring adherence to both local and international regulatory frameworks. In this pivotal role, you will provide day-to-day regulatory advice, manage audits and inspections, handle escalation of key compliance matters, and foster a robust compliance culture within the branch. Acting as a key liaison between internal stakeholders and regulators, you'll also ensure timely reporting, implement policies, and deliver targeted training initiatives - all while supporting the business in achieving its strategic objectives.
**Key Responsibilities**:
**1.Business and other advisory, communication and escalation**:
Provide day to day advice and check and challenge the business on all relevant matters pertaining to Gift City branch including escalating significant matters promptly, providing additional information where requested, analysing/interpreting legal, regulatory and internal policy/procedure issues;
Maintain regular communication/liaison with relevant senior management, business and others to ensure that they are aware of the business and regulatory risks, including advising them of significant policy matters, regulatory changes, audits and inspections and breaches, if any.
Work closely with the team to enhance the local compliance culture in the entity through a range of methods, including attendance at local business/other team meetings as appropriate, training, engagement with local risk management, operations and front office staff, identification of and sharing best practices.
Support the team in the product approval procedure (from initial discussion stage to roll out of new products)
Contribute to local, regional and global team meetings/calls, helping identify and share best practices
Work with local business(es) to address issues identified
Implement robust management reporting processes on all regulatory and policy matters internally, and to regulatory bodies, to ensure timely submission of regular and ad-hoc MI (including but not restricted to conduct risk MI) and input to Region, London, and to all local/other Compliance, Board or Committee reporting.
Support the team in meeting the Compliance objective of the Bank
Support New Product initiatives in line with the Barclays Standards
**2. Regulatory and other authority liaison**:
Managing regulators’ visits, audits and inspections.
Manage implementation of new regulatory initiatives pertaining to compliance and communicate regulatory requirements to the front office.
Ensure timely escalation to senior management in case of issues, pending regulatory requirements
3. Training
Ensure that appropriate compliance induction, annual refresher, and other topical training is delivered locally/centrally and completed by all staff within agreed timeframes, to include producing or sourcing (e.g. from the central team) the material as required, and ensuring that completion records are maintained locally/centrally.
Develop and deliver specific regulatory training locally, according to identified risks.

**Qualifications**:
In-depth knowledge and understanding of the regulatory requirements in Gift City India across the functional areas (specially International Financial Services Centres Authority).
Robust understanding of the various products and services offered by the branch in India
Preferred Post graduate qualification and relevant experience gained in the legal or compliance departments.
Strong knowledge of Indian business environment.
Ability to work closely with other functions to find both technical and procedural solutions.
Quick thinker with ability to understand complex transactions and explain compliance issues clearly and concisely.
Guide business as well as to handle areas of difference with business and escalate.
Detail oriented, strong team player with a proven track record.
Purpose of the role
To provide data-led expert oversight and check and challenge on business and compliance matters to evidence that the organisation is operating in a compliance with Barclays legal, regulatory and ethical responsibilities.
Accountabilities
Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews