Financial Reporting, Policy, and Technical Accounting VP - BPL

You’ll be responsible for delivering high‑quality external financial reporting, including statutory and group accounts, setting up and enhancing reporting processes, ensuring compliance, and aligning financial and risk disclosures.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high‑quality external financial reporting and maintain compliance with accounting standards.
• Set up and improve external reporting processes, ensuring accurate, timely outputs.
• Collaborate with the Risk team to reflect risk profile in reporting.
• Manage and develop accounting policies, act as technical expert on accounting matters, including debt, complex transactions, and judgemental areas.
• Provide guidance to stakeholders on interpretation and application of accounting standards.
• Monitor accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting and oversee preparation and filing with regulatory bodies and investors.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement in partnership with transformation teams.
• Manage financial risk and maintain alignment with compliance functions.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and performance monitoring of the finance department.
• Lead cross‑functional stakeholder engagement and provide strategic financial insights.

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with experience in technical accounting and financial reporting.
• Proven experience owning technical accounting processes within a complex organization, including multi‑entity statutory reporting.
• Experience in FinTech or EMI is desirable; understanding of electronic money regulations and reporting environments.

Senior Leadership Expectations

• Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, recommend change, plan resources, budgets, policies.
• Define roles, plan departmental future, counsel employees, manage performance, influence budgets and schedules.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen, Energise, Align, Develop.
• If individual contributor, serve as subject‑matter expert, guide technical direction, mentor specialists.
• Advise stakeholders on functional and cross‑functional impact.
• Manage and mitigate risks, strengthen controls.
• Provide analytical solutions and inclusive research outcomes.
• Build trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

All colleagues will demonstrate Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship, and the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge and Drive.