Join us at Barclays as we are seeking an experienced and dynamic Portfolio Management Office. This role sits within the BUK Portfolio team where you’ll play a key role in shaping financial clarity and workforce alignment across delivery labs – ensuring the right investments, people and plans are successfully in place to execute a complex backlog of work. You will support investment and workforce planning, monitor and manage costs of change from a Strategic Investment perspective and collaborate daily with key teams including delivery labs to maintain an accurate view of financial and workforce metrics.
Key Skills
* Demonstrated experience in financial management and workforce planning within a banking or financial services environment
* A solid understanding of Agile delivery methods, working within Agile‑aligned organisations
* Prior experience working across multiple business units
* Experience managing portfolio‑level financials and workforce plans
Experience working with JIRA, Excel and Navigator is highly beneficial. You may be assessed on 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.
Location: Knutsford
Purpose of the Role
To support the portfolio in the delivery of successful change, by ensuring that processes and practices are aligned with relevant controls and governance standards and that all activity is aligned with the strategic objectives of the business area / organisation.
Accountabilities
* Facilitate portfolio prioritisation, ensuring compliance with the established control framework, including oversight of controls and standards.
* Support the effective governance of the portfolio, helping establish and operate effective Portfolio Governance that enables quality, data‑driven decision making, ensuring executive reporting is fit for purpose and timely.
* Monitor portfolio performance, including tracking of programme and project progress, identification of thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management and key stakeholders.
* Facilitate the management of the portfolio Book of Work, prioritisation and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors such as resource availability, stakeholder buy‑in and potential risks.
* Oversight of change delivery to ensure alignment with relevant policies and standards, driving consistent, robust controls data; monitoring indicators of control adherence, acting to remediate any weaknesses in the controls; and identifying and implementing actions to drive greater maturity against key control indicators.
* Review, resolve, manage and Escalate portfolio risks and issues, challenging where appropriate and actively supporting the resolution of variances as necessary.
* Engage and influence all stakeholders to help them understand their responsibilities and fulfil them effectively through clear, timely communication and well‑facilitated portfolio management processes.
* Support an environment of effective delivery by empowering portfolio management resources, utilising data‑led thinking to inform decisions, leveraging expertise, and driving accountability and transparency.
* Operate as a source of best‑practice guidance and expertise, to ensure consistent excellence around controls and governance (including training) is embedded across the portfolio.
Vice‑President Expectations
* Contribute to strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change; plan resources, budgets and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalated breaches of policies/procedures.
* If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes; lead specialists to influence operations of a department, balancing short‑ and long‑term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
* Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment where colleagues thrive and deliver consistently excellent standards (Listen, Energise, Align, Develop).
* For an individual contributor, serve as a subject‑matter expert, guide technical direction, lead collaborative multi‑year assignments, and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
* Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross‑functional areas of impact and alignment.
* Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, supporting the control and governance agenda.
* Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the business goals.
* Collaborate with other areas of work, keeping up to speed with business activity and strategies.
* Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives; in‑depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
* Adopt outcomes of extensive research into problem‑solving processes.
* Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
Values
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.
Seniority Level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment Type
Full‑time
Job Function
Finance and Sales
Industries
Banking and Financial Services
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