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About the Role

This role provides financial expertise and support to business units, acting as a liaison between finance and business units to bridge the gap between financial data and business decisions. It involves leading financial stewardship and strategic investment decisions across a significant technology portfolio, partnering with senior executives to shape funding priorities, optimize resource allocation, and support the delivery of technology and transformation agendas. The role also serves as a strategic cost partner to senior leaders, offering commercial challenge, data-driven insights, and strategic guidance.

Responsibilities

Develop and implement business unit financial strategies, plans, and budgets.
Develop financial models to forecast performance, assess investment opportunities, and evaluate financial risks.
Analyze the impact of business decisions on financial performance and provide recommendations.
Collaborate cross-functionally to provide financial insights and guidance to stakeholders.
Identify and implement financial process improvements to streamline operations.
Support business units in identifying, assessing, and mitigating financial risks.
Provide training and guidance on financial risk management and compliance practices.
Analyze and present financial data to provide insights into business performance and trends.
Manage a business function, contributing to function-wide strategic initiatives.
Influence policy and procedures for the function.
Plan, manage, and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects.
Lead other people managers and embed a performance culture.
Lead organization-wide projects as an individual contributor.
Act as a deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working.
Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists.
Provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions.
Manage, coordinate, and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
Foster and guide compliance and ensure regulations are observed.
Monitor and influence external environments, regulators, or advocacy groups on behalf of the company.
Demonstrate knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group.
Maintain comprehensive knowledge of industry theories, practices, and market developments.
Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems in complex situations.
Exercise management authority to make significant and strategic decisions or recommendations.
Negotiate with and influence senior stakeholders internally and externally.
Act as the principal contact point for key clients and counterparts.
Serve as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
Demonstrate leadership behaviors (Listen, Energize, Align, Develop) to create an environment for colleagues to thrive.
Demonstrate company values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship) and mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).
Lead financial stewardship and strategic investment decisions across a c.£500m Technology portfolio.
Partner with senior executives to shape funding priorities, optimize resource allocation, and support technology and transformation agendas.
Act as a trusted strategic cost partner to senior Technology and Business leaders.
Provide commercial challenge, data-driven insights, and strategic guidance.
Advise on high-profile cost transformation and productivity initiatives.
Identify opportunities to optimize spend, improve efficiency, and create capacity.
Drive the evolution of financial management, data, and business intelligence capabilities.
Leverage automation, analytics, and innovative technologies to enhance insight and decision making.
Influence and lead across a global matrix organization.
Bring together stakeholders across Finance, Technology, COO, Procurement, and Transformation functions.
Deliver strategic outcomes and large-scale change.

Requirements

Extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
Broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline.
Up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge.
Insight into external market developments / initiatives.
Interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills.
Management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
Ability to negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
Ability to act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
Ability to act as spokesperson for the function and business division.
Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours (L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others).
Demonstrate company Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship) and Mindset (Empower, Challenge and Drive).
Experience leading financial stewardship and strategic investment decisions across a significant portfolio.
Experience partnering with senior executives.
Experience acting as a strategic cost partner to senior leaders.
Experience providing commercial challenge, data-driven insights, and strategic guidance.
Experience advising on cost transformation and productivity initiatives.
Experience driving the evolution of financial management, data, and business intelligence capabilities.
Experience leveraging automation, analytics, and innovative technologies.
Experience influencing and leading across a global matrix organization.
Experience bringing together stakeholders across multiple functions.
Experience delivering strategic outcomes and large-scale change.

Skills

Financial expertise
Financial strategy development
Financial planning
Budgeting
Financial modeling
Forecasting
Investment assessment
Financial risk evaluation
Financial analysis
Business decision analysis
Cross-functional collaboration
Financial process improvement
Financial risk management
Compliance practices
Data analysis
Performance analysis
Trend identification
Decision support
Strategic initiative input
Policy and procedure influence
Project management (complex and critical)
Team leadership
Performance management
Technical expertise
Thought leadership
Coaching
Mentoring
Senior stakeholder advice
Resourcing management
Budget management
Policy creation
Compliance guidance
Regulatory observation
Industry knowledge
Sector knowledge
Market development insight
Interpretative thinking
Advanced analytical skills
Problem-solving
Solution design
Decision making
Negotiation
Stakeholder influence
Client relationship management
Spokesperson skills
Leadership behaviours
Company values adherence
Company mindset adherence
Financial stewardship
Strategic investment decision making
Resource allocation optimization
Technology portfolio management
Commercial challenge
Data-driven insights
Strategic guidance
Cost transformation advisory
Productivity initiative advisory
Spend optimization
Efficiency improvement
Capacity creation
Financial management evolution
Data capability evolution
Business intelligence capability evolution
Automation leveraging
Analytics leveraging
Innovative technology leveraging
Matrix organization leadership
Stakeholder engagement
Strategic outcome delivery
Large-scale change delivery

Experience Level

Senior Leader

About the Company

Barclays is committed to upholding its Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Barclays operates with a Mindset to Empower, Challenge and Drive.