At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and implement a robust financial control framework for Barclays Payments.
- Company: Join Barclays, a leading global bank with a commitment to innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, diverse work environment, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative culture focused on continuous improvement and risk management.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a dynamic fintech environment while developing your leadership skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in financial controls within regulated environments and strong communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
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 bank’s 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.
Responsibilities include
- Defining jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance, and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
- Leading 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.
- Demonstrating a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
- As an individual contributor, acting as a subject matter expert within own discipline and guiding technical direction.
Key behaviours
- L – Listen and be authentic
- E – Energise and inspire
- A – Align across the enterprise
- D – Develop others
- Functional Leadership
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
- Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
- Financial Controls Lead – Barclays Payments
You’ll play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and embedding the financial control framework for a newly established Barclays Payments business.
You’ll lead the integration of appropriate controls into BPL, ensuring a robust and scalable operating model that supports long‑term growth.
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 ensure controls are operating effectively, oversee testing activities, and maintain clear evidence of control execution and compliance.
Qualifications
- Extensive Financial Controls experience, including the design, implementation, testing, and monitoring of control frameworks within a regulated financial services environment.
- Background within a Fin Tech, 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.
- Key critical skills relevant for success such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job‑specific technical skills.
- Equal Employment Opportunity
Barclays is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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