Acceptance - Financial Planning & Analysis VP - BPL

As a Payments Acceptance Financial Planning & Analysis VP, you’ll work directly with Brookfield to help grow and transform the bank’s payment acceptance business. You’ll partner with the business to ensure the monetisation of key outcomes, using your understanding of the broader payments industry to review and challenge performance. You’ll be expected to proactively manage stakeholders across all FP&A processes, ensuring alignment and clarity in financial planning and delivery.

This is an extremely commercial role supporting Barclays Payments drive the objectives of the value creation plan, working closely with the business to identify revenue growth and cost efficiency opportunities. This is a high-impact role where your ability to combine commercial awareness with analytical rigour will help shape the financial strategy of the bank’s evolving payments business.

To be considered for this position you will be a qualified accountant with a commercial background. You will have strong Excel skills with financial modelling and analysis expertise. You will have the ability to communicate financial concepts to finance and non-finance stakeholders.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

To provide financial expertise and support to specific business units or departments within the organisation, and act as a liaison between the finance function and various business units, helping to bridge the gap between financial data and business decisions.

• Development and implementation of business unit financial strategies, plans and budgets, using insights to evaluate the financial implications of strategic initiatives and recommend appropriate actions.
• Development of financial models to forecast future performance, assess investment opportunities, and evaluate financial risks for business units, and to analyse the impact of business decisions on financial performance and provision of recommendations.
• Cross functional collaboration to provide financial insights and guidance to business unit stakeholders.
• Identification of opportunities and implementation of financial process improvements that streamline financial operations.
• Support to business units in identification, assessment, and mitigation of financial risks, including provision of training and guidance to business units on financial risk management and compliance practices.
• Analysis and presentation of financial data to provide insights into business performance, identify trends, and support decision‑making.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escape breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide…