Finance Business Partner - External Reporting

As a Finance Business Partner, you will collaborate closely with the business, Investor Relations, and Group to provide expert financial support and guidance on quarterly and interim results. You will lead the quarterly results announcement for the UK Corporate business, explain key performance drivers to senior management, and identify risks and opportunities. Your role includes competitor analysis, ensuring governance for external disclosures, and offering ad-hoc analysis and insights to the business. You will also support best practices in finance and business performance areas.

In this role, you will articulate business performance and key trends through deep understanding and insight, producing external materials such as Results Announcements, Cluster Packs, and Q&A documents. You will support the UKCB CFO and the business with any ad-hoc analysis, understanding key trends with analytical insights. Your wide stakeholder engagement across the business and finance will deliver strong business partnering support. You will ensure robust governance for all external disclosures and be a trusted partner in all key decisions relating to external results, influencing actions to ensure the business is taking corrective measures. Understanding the primary income drivers of key business areas, both current and proposed, you will drive business performance and influence decision-making through key insights.

To be successful as a Finance Business Partner, you will have experience with:

• Accountancy or advanced finance qualification (ACA, CIMA, ACCA) (or substantial progress to completion).

• Extensive experience in both financial management accounting and commercial decision support and knowledge of the banking and financial markets sector.

• Advanced understanding of financial income and cost drivers reporting and analysis. Exposure to Planning process and cycle

• Considerable analytical skills and the ability to effectively summarise and interpret complex data.

You may be assessed on the 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.

This role is based in London

Purpose of the role

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.

Accountabilities

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.

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 escalate breaches of policies/procedures..If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the departments 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 and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..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 organisation 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 in order 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.