Project Financial Portfolio Tech Partner

Join us as Project Financial Portfolio Tech Partner at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

Key Experience and Skills

To be successful as a Project Financial Portfolio Tech Partner, you should have experience with:

• Extensive Financial Expertise: Proven experience in project financial accounting, ensuring robust financial management
• Stakeholder Engagement: Exceptional ability to communicate and manage relationships with diverse stakeholders, driving project alignment and success
• Meticulous Attention to Detail: Demonstrated precision in reviewing tasks, ensuring accuracy and high-quality outcomes

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Comprehensive Financial Knowledge: Strong understanding of financial and accounting principles
• Excel Proficiency: Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel for efficient financial analysis and reporting

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

Purpose of the Role

To lead the portfolio management team in the delivery of successful projects, while ensuring that portfolio management processes and practices are aligned with controls and governance standards and that projects are aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives.

Accountabilities

• Leading the portfolio management team, including setting of portfolio vision, management of portfolio performance, and provision of guidance and support to portfolio analysts.
• Monitoring of portfolio performance, including tracking of project progress, managing budgets, identification of thematic risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management.
• Management of portfolio documentation, including aggregation of portfolio book of work, schedules, and budgets, and ensuring that portfolio documentation is up-to-date and accurate.
• Facilitation of portfolio governance, including ensuring that projects are aligned with the organization’s strategic objectives, aligned with the controls and governance standards and that portfolio thematic risks and issues are managed effectively.
• Managing the portfolio Book of Work outlining the sequence and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy-in, and potential risks.
• Facilitation of change management activities, to ensure that change initiatives are successfully implemented and embedded in the organization.
• Continuous improvement of portfolio management practices, including identification of areas for improvement and implementation of changes to improve portfolio performance.
• Collaboration with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that portfolio management practices are aligned with their needs and expectations.
• Development of portfolio management processes that are aligned with controls and governance standards and that support the delivery of successful projects.

Vice President Expectations

• 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.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organization functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, 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.

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.