Barclays India | Financial Crime Agile Testing Team Lead

Accountabilities

• This is a high-visibility opportunity to build and evolve an agile testing capability from the ground up, driving testing strategy, influencing senior stakeholders, and applying a consultancy-style mindset to delivery, communication, and continuous improvement.
• You’ll play a meaningful role in helping Barclays manage financial crime risk, protect customers, and strengthen the bank’s control environment.
• 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.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in Financial Crime Assurance or Control Testing within a 2nd line function including understanding of investigative processes and control or hypothesis testing.
• Strong risk and control mindset, with the ability to identify, assess, test, and challenge compliance and financial crime risks across business activities, processes, systems, and controls.
• Line management and project management experience, including leading teams, managing day-to-day delivery, developing colleagues, and driving performance against priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to produce clear testing outputs, senior-level materials, memos, and communications that support the insights, observations or outcomes.
• Experience in advisory or consulting roles, agile delivery, and use of case management systems (like Salesforce) to support testing, oversight, and continuous improvement.
• In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.

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)