Barclays India | Financial Crime Agile Testing Specialist

Accountabilities

• You'll harness data-led insights, agile delivery practices, and strong stakeholder engagement to strengthen Barclays' financial crime controls, support robust oversight, and help protect our customers, colleagues, assets, shareholders, and reputation.
• Advisory or consulting experience, including the ability to create memos, pitch ideas, and support the insights, observations or outcomes.
• Identification and assessment of compliance risks through thorough reviews of business activities, changes, processes, testing and systems to.
• Identification and investigation of potential market abuse, including but not limited to, Insider Dealing, Unlawful Disclosure, Market Manipulation or Anti-Competitive Conduct.
• Conduct investigation of compliance risk events or breaches.
• Oversight and check and challenge of corrective actions and preventative measures to avoid future occurrences.
• Implementation of compliance policies and procedures in line with regulatory requirements and ensuring that the bank’s internal policies are aligned with international standards, including jurisdictional requirements.
• Collaboration with 1LOD, other relevant Compliance teams and legal, and relevant risk management functions to facilitate a comprehensive approach to compliance and risk management.
• Identification, investigation and oversight of potential money laundering, terrorist financing or other financial crime.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Crime Assurance or Control Testing within a 2nd line function, with an understanding of investigative processes, control testing, and hypothesis testing.
• Strong knowledge of compliance risk management, financial crime controls, and the ability to identify, assess, investigate, and challenge risk events or control weaknesses.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear testing outputs, senior-level materials, and communicate complex or sensitive information effectively.
• Familiarity with case management systems (such as Salesforce), workflows, data handling, agile ways of working, or digital tools that support testing and oversight activities.

Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank with consumer, corporate and investment banking businesses. Its history goes back to 1690 in London.

Barclays' Indian centres support the group's global operations, finance and technology. Finance professionals typically work in financial control, regulatory reporting, product control, tax and risk.

• Industry: Banking and financial services
• Headquarters: London, UK
• In India: Banking in India plus large Barclays service centres (including Pune, Chennai and Noida)