Job Description
Join us as a Finance Lead for the Customer Care technology business area within Barclays. This role forms part of a portfolio management team that oversees all of the strategic investment for Customer Care which is a 70m+ budget spanning a large number of projects & business outcomes. You will be responsible for the oversight of all of the Customer Care financials and month-end processes, defining and adopting best practice financial forecasting and tracking of spend across the outcomes, working alongside our Project Management Office (PMO) and Portfolio Management (PM) community. You will need strong knowledge of financial accounting principles and an ability to extract/analyse data from tools such as SAP and Navigator will be required. You will demonstrate best in class financial management processes and lead on the affordability/cost control position for Customer Care technology. While also taking lead on the completion of capitalisation assessments and approvals with Finance and managing the Customer Care Lab’s risks and opportunities position, recommending self-solving approaching to resolving and highlighting where support to resolve cost challenges require intervention from the Senior Leadership team. Strong level of negotiating and agreeing cost movements as well as processing accruals and journals, raising purchase orders will be required.
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