Financial Crime Legal Counsel

As a Barclays Legal Counsel - Financial Crime, your role is to provide consistently excellent, timely, high quality and commercially focused legal and regulatory advice on complex anti-money laundering (AML), counter-terrorist financing (CTF), Sanctions, and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) matters. You will also provide expertise and leadership for significant investigations involving AML/CTF, Sanctions and ABC alongside leading policy efforts for AML/CTF, Sanctions and ABC issues., 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?

• Providing legal and regulatory advice covering all aspects of AML, CTF, ABC and Sanctions


• Collaborating with various teams globally in the execution and management of investigations and enforcement actions relating to financial crime issues


• Supporting the development and implementation of governance and reporting across the Financial Crime Legal team, including the provision of periodic Management Information


• Assisting with the development and implementation of guidance and escalation procedures within financial crime compliance


• Helping prepare and participate in the delivery of training programmes within the Financial Crime Legal team and the wider Legal function


• Participating actively in Financial Crime Legal team activities and development opportunities


• Assisting in the delivery of functionally excellent financial crime legal services across the relevant business units within the region and ensure consistency of approach


• Advising the legal regional management team and other members of senior management within the region in relation to financial crime issues
  
  England & Wales Qualified lawyer (Solicitor, Barrister, Attorney or equivalent), with some post qualification experience


• Some experience in AML, ABC, CTF, or Sanctions, or a keen interest in moving into this area


Skills that will help you in the role:

• Understanding of the requirements of legal risk management in a financial institution


• Previous experience working in-house within the financial services industry, or experience representing the financial services industry in other contexts, e.g., law firm
  
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