Financial Controls Lead - BPL in London

As Financial Controls Lead within Barclays Payments, you’ll play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and embedding the financial control framework for a newly established Barclays Payments business. Working at the forefront of a significant transformation, you’ll take ownership of the policies, processes, and procedures that underpin the Barclays Payments Limited (BPL) control environment. You’ll assess the current state of Barclays’ control framework and lead the integration of appropriate controls into BPL, ensuring a robust and scalable operating model that supports long-term growth.

You’ll work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Tax, Treasury, and Risk to define and implement best‑in‑class controls, policies, and governance processes. You’ll be responsible for ensuring controls are operating effectively, overseeing testing activities, and maintaining clear evidence of control execution and compliance. As part of the build‑out of a new ERP platform and broader FinTech infrastructure, you’ll have a unique opportunity to establish an embedded control framework from the ground up, helping to shape a strong, well‑governed finance function and supporting the successful growth of Barclays Payments.

To be successful as a Financial Controls Lead, you should be able to demonstrate:

• Extensive Financial Controls experience, including the design, implementation, testing, and monitoring of control frameworks within a regulated financial services environment
• Background within a FinTech, Payments, or Electronic Money Institution (EMI) environment
• In‑depth understanding of the Finance function, including governance, risk, and controls frameworks
• Ability to communicate financial and risk information effectively to senior stakeholders across all organisational levels

Purpose of the role:

To design, develop and consult on the bank’s internal controls framework and supporting policies and standards across the organisation, ensuring it is robust, effective, and aligned to the bank’s overall strategy and risk appetite.

Accountabilities:

• Identification and analysis of emerging and evolving risks across functions to understand their potential impact, and likelihood.
• Communication of the purpose, structure, and importance of the control framework to all relevant stakeholders, including senior management and audit.
• Support to the development and implementation of the bank's internal controls framework and principles tailored to the banks specific needs and risk profile including design, monitoring, and reporting initiatives.
• Monitoring and maintenance of the control's frameworks, to ensure compliance and adjust and update as internal and external requirements change.
• Embedment of the control framework across the bank through cross collaboration, training sessions and awareness campaigns which fosters a culture of knowledge sharing and improvement in risk management and the importance of internal control effectiveness.

Vice President Expectations:

• 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 elevate 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.

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.