As a Payments Acceptance Financial Planning & Analysis VP, you will work directly with Brookfield to help grow and transform the bank's payment acceptance business. You will partner with the business to ensure the monetisation of key outcomes, using your understanding of the broader payments industry to review and challenge performance. Your role will involve proactively managing stakeholders across all FP&A processes, ensuring alignment and clarity in financial planning and delivery.
You will play a key role in supporting Project Gaia by challenging processes and dependencies to drive efficiency and strengthen controls. You will provide and enhance insightful analysis and commentary to support updates to senior Finance forums, including the Finance Committee, ExCo, and the Board. This high-impact role requires a combination of commercial awareness and analytical rigour to shape the financial strategy of the bank's evolving payments business.
Qualifications for this position include being a qualified accountant with a business partnering or technical background. Strong Excel skills with financial modelling and analysis expertise are essential. You should be able to communicate financial concepts effectively to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
The role may involve assessment of key skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, along with job-specific technical skills.
Purpose of the role
To provide financial expertise and support to specific business units or departments, acting as a liaison between finance and the business to facilitate data-driven decisions.
Accountabilities
* Develop and implement financial strategies, plans, and budgets, evaluating the financial implications of strategic initiatives and recommending actions.
* Create financial models to forecast performance, assess investment opportunities, evaluate risks, and analyze the impact of business decisions.
* Collaborate across functions to provide financial insights and guidance.
* Identify opportunities for financial process improvements to streamline operations.
* Support risk identification, assessment, and mitigation, including training on financial risk management and compliance.
* Analyze and present financial data to identify trends and support decision-making.
Vice President Expectations
* Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and recommend changes. Manage resources, budgets, policies, and processes, ensuring continuous improvement.
* If managing a team, define roles, plan for future needs, and oversee performance and development.
* Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen, Energize, Align, and Develop.
* For individual contributors, serve as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, and mentor less experienced staff.
* Advise stakeholders on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignments.
* Manage risks and strengthen controls, demonstrating accountability.
* Collaborate across functions to stay aligned with business strategies.
* Develop solutions through sophisticated analysis and research, comparing complex alternatives.
* Build and maintain trusting relationships with stakeholders, using influencing skills to achieve objectives.
All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays Values-Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship-and demonstrate the Barclays Mindset-Empower, Challenge, and Drive.