Join us as an Economic Crime Business Analyst - 6-month Secondment/Fixed term contract within Tesco Bank where you will help shape the future of banking by being responsible for managing a portfolio of customers requiring KYC reviews, ensuring all regulatory and compliance obligations are met while coordinating multiple related activities and workstreams. The role involves providing project management support by tracking progress, following up with stakeholders, driving completion of key actions, and helping to maintain a robust control environment. Key responsibilities include reviewing documentation for accuracy and compliance, supporting change management, mitigating risks, and providing regular updates to stakeholders to ensure the successful and timely delivery of KYC and remediation objectives.
To be successful as an Economic Crime Business Analyst - 6-month Secondment/Fixed term contract, you must have the following essential skills:
- Demonstrable experience in project and/or programme management, with responsibility for coordinating complex workstreams and delivering against key milestones.
- Proven experience contributing to remediation projects, preferably within KYC, AML, Customer Due Diligence (CDD), or regulatory compliance environments.
- Good stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, engage, and collaborate effectively across multiple business functions and seniority levels.
- Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with a of managing competing priorities and delivering outcomes within tight deadlines.
- Demonstrable AML/KYC experience at an ownership, or subject matter expert level, with a considerable understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Experience operating within a robust controls and governance framework, including risk management, oversight, documentation review, and compliance monitoring.
- Proven experience analysing and interpreting large and complex data sets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, providing data-driven recommendations to support business decision-making and continuous process improvement.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role can be based in Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Purpose of the role
To support the Risk Function in delivering it’s objective of safeguarding the bank's financial and operational stability by proactively identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks across various business units and activities.
Accountabilities
- Development of strategic direction for risk, including the implementation of up-to-date methodologies and processes.
- Management of the risk department, including oversight of risk colleagues and their performance, implementation of risk priorities and objectives, oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
- Relationship management of risk stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders, and maintenance of the quality of external third-party services.
- Adherence to the Risk policy, standards and frameworks, and maintaining a robust control environment.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
- To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
- Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
- Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
- Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
- Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
- Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
- Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
