Financial Crime Support & Planning Executive Assistant

Company: Barclays
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Location: Glasgow
Job Description:

As an Integrated Financial Crime Support and Planning Executive Assistant at Barclays, you will provide high-level administrative and operational support to the senior management team. You will play a critical role in assisting with the strategic planning and coordination of financial crime prevention initiatives while managing key stakeholder relationships and ensuring timely and efficient execution of projects.

To be successful as an Integrated Financial Crime Support and Planning Executive Assistant, you should have experience with:

  • Experience in an executive assistant or administrative support role, ideally within financial crime, compliance or risk management.
  • Organisational skills, attention to detail, proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and project management software.
  • Knowledge of financial crime regulations (Anti Money Laundering, Know your customer, sanctions) and an understanding of their application within the wholesale banking sector.

This role will be located at our London or Glasgow office.

Purpose of the role

To manage the executive’s schedule, handling correspondence, preparing presentations and reports, and providing other administrative support as needed.

Accountabilities

  • Management of senior executive members’ calendars and overseeing their timely responses to meeting invitations and requests.
  • Planning and arranging travel itineraries, including flights, accommodation, and ground transportation, ensuring timely and efficient travel for the executive.
  • Proactively anticipating the needs of the senior executive, prioritising tasks, and ensuring timely completion.
  • Management of day-to-day administrative tasks, such as expenses, maintaining filing systems, and ordering office supplies, annual leave records management, distribution list management and organisation management tasks.
  • Management and facilitation of senior executive members’ meetings.

Analyst Expectations

  • To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
  • Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise.
  • Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise.
  • They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
  • 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.
  • Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
  • Partner with other functions and business areas.
  • Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
  • Escalate breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.
  • Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to.
  • Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisation’s products, services and processes within the function.
  • Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
  • Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience.
  • Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.

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Posted: April 19th, 2025