Technologyernance LeadJob Description
Purpose of the role
To lead the portfolio management team in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls andernance standards and that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives.
Accountabilities
1. Leading of portfolio management team, including setting of portfolio vision, management of portfolio performance, and provision of guidance and support to portfolio analysts.
2. Monitoring of portfolio performance, including tracking of project progress, managing budgets, identification of thematic risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management.
3. Management of portfolio documentation, including aggregation of portfolio book of work, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that portfolio documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
4. Facilitation of portfolioernance, including ensuring that projects are aligned with the organisation's strategic objectives, aligned with the controls andernance standards and that portfolio thematic risks and issues are managed effectively.
5. Managing the portfolio Book of Work outlining the sequence and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy-in, and potential risks.
6. Facilitation of change management activities, to ensure that change initiatives are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
7. Continuous improvement of portfolio management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve portfolio performance.
8. Collaboration with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that portfolio management practices are aligned with their needs and expectations.
9. Development of portfolio management processes that are aligned with controls andernance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects.
Vice President Expectations
10. Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make rmendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
11. Be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation toplete assignments. Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
12. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
13. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control andernance agenda.
14. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
15. Demonstrateprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
16. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
17. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thoughtparing and selectingplex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
18. Adopt and include the oues of extensive research in problem solving processes.
19. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to aplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve oues.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moralpass, 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.
Join Barclays as a Technologyernance Lead, supporting around 800 resources across six locations. You will oversee the IFC Techernance function, managing programme financials, workforce planning, coordination with the central programme team and collaboration with technology tower leads. The role spans all four control pillars: CDD, Screening, TM and IIE, as well as the Tech horizontal, ensuring portfolio management aligns withernance standards and strategic objectives.
The Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio is a multi-faceted Financial Crime programme of change delivered via over 20 programmes to create a holistic, risk-based and effective Financial Crime environment, strengthen robustness and enhance automation of Financial Crime processes, develop and strengthen our skills and capabilities across all lines of defence and empower our partners, colleagues and customers to identify and prevent Financial Crime by raising awareness of the risks.
To excel in this role, you will need the following:
20. Proven experience in overseeing Technology balance sheet for a large organization, including software capitalization, amortization, and impairment.
21. Strong ability to forecast project requirements, including financial planning, resource allocation, hiring, licensing, and coordination of professional services.
22. Demonstrated success in tracking and optimising strategic resource utilisation to reduce costs, enhance value delivery, and build organisational capacity.
Other highly valued skills include:
23. Proven experience in managing financials and resourcing plan for multiple strategic initiatives and transformation programmes, consistently delivering projects on budget and within defined scope.
24. Ability to identify and implement cost-efficiency opportunities, such as MSP-to-permanent staff conversions.
25. Experience in preparing financial reports and budget documentation for senior management andernance forums.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
The successful candidate will be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall). Job ID JR-0000050671