Fairclough has over 13 years’ experience in financial services. She joins from Royal Bank of Canada where she worked as head of transformation.

She will be responsible for Barclays’ Jersey trust business as well as developing relationships with clients.

“Julie’s focus on organisational change and operations management will support our client teams and relationship managers in offering better solutions to our clients," said Ashley Cox, director and local platform manager at Barclays Wealth in Jersey.

In other recent news, the wealth and investment arm of UK-listed banking group Barclays said it made an adjusted pre-tax profit of £60 million ($91.6 million) in the first three months of 2013, a 20 per cent rise from a year ago.