As a Payments Acceptance Financial Planning & Analysis VP, you’ll work directly with Brookfield to help grow and transform the bank’s payment acceptance business. You’ll partner with the business to ensure the monetisation of key outcomes, using your understanding of the broader payments industry to review and challenge performance. You’ll be expected to proactively manage stakeholders across all FP&A processes, ensuring alignment and clarity in financial planning and delivery.
You’ll play a key role in supporting Project Gaia by challenging processes and dependencies to drive efficiency and strengthen controls. You’ll provide and enhance insightful analysis and commentary to support updates to senior Finance forums, including the Finance Committee, ExCo, and the Board. This is a high-impact role where your ability to combine commercial awareness with analytical rigour will help shape the financial strategy of the bank’s evolving payments business.
To be considered for this position, you will be a qualified accountant with a business partnering or technical background. You will have strong Excel skills with financial modelling and analysis expertise. You will have the ability to communicate financial concepts to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
You may be assessed on 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.
Purpose of the role
To provide financial expertise and support to specific business units or departments within the organisation, and act as a liaison between the finance function and various business units, helping to bridge the gap between financial data and business decisions.
Accountabilities
* Development and implementation of business unit financial strategies, plans, and budgets, using insights to evaluate the financial implications of strategic initiatives and recommend appropriate actions.
* Development of financial models to forecast future performance, assess investment opportunities, and evaluate financial risks for business units, and to analyse the impact of business decisions on financial performance and provision of recommendations.
* Cross-functional collaboration to provide financial insights and guidance to business unit stakeholders.
* Identification of opportunities and implementation of financial process improvements that streamline financial operations.
* Support to business units in identification, assessment, and mitigation of financial risks, including provision of training and guidance on financial risk management and compliance practices.
* Analysis and presentation of financial data to provide insights into business performance, identify trends, and support decision-making.
Vice President Expectations
* To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements; and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
* If managing a team, define roles and responsibilities, plan for future needs, and oversee operations, while counselling employees on performance and contributing to pay decisions. Lead specialists to influence department operations, aligning with strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short and long-term goals, and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
* If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrate leadership behaviors such as listening, inspiring, aligning, and developing others to create a thriving environment.
* For individual contributors, serve as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead multi-year assignments, and mentor less experienced team members, influencing long-term profits, risks, and strategic decisions.
* Advise stakeholders, including leadership and senior management, on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignment.
* Manage and mitigate risks, demonstrating leadership in control and governance.
* Show comprehensive understanding of organizational functions to contribute to business goals.
* Collaborate across areas to stay aligned with business strategies.
* Create solutions through sophisticated analysis and research, developing innovative solutions.
* Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve objectives.
All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and embody the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.
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