Portfolio Planning Manager

Embark on a strategic career move with Barclays as a Portfolio Planning Manager within our dynamic Financial Crime Risk Programme. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape the future of financial crime prevention and contribute to the bank's growth and risk reduction principles. If you're a seasoned planning professional with a passion for driving impactful change, this role offers a platform for significant professional development and influence.

At the heart of this position lies the Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio, a multi-year, multi-faceted program designed to create a robust, risk-based, and automated financial crime risk environment. You will play a pivotal role in orchestrating the planning of change initiatives, ensuring they are seamlessly aligned with the bank's strategic objectives. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading Portfolio Planning: Manage a consistent and effective planning process across the entire portfolio, ensuring clarity and coherence.
• Consolidated Reporting: Provide crucial consolidated views of Financial Crime Change deliverables, benefits (both risk and non-risk), and costs to Executive Committees, Boards, and Regulators.
• Strategic Alignment: Ensure all change initiatives are meticulously planned to support the bank's risk reduction and growth principles.
• Team Leadership: Potentially lead and mentor a portfolio management team, fostering their development and ensuring high performance.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive the enhancement of portfolio management practices, identifying and implementing improvements for optimal performance.

Key Advantages for Your Career Path:

This role presents a wealth of opportunities for ambitious professionals:

• High-Impact Influence: You'll be at the forefront of shaping critical financial crime risk strategies, directly impacting the bank's stability and growth.
• Strategic Visibility: Gain exposure to Executive Committees, Boards, and Regulators, showcasing your planning prowess and strategic thinking.
• Professional Network Expansion: Collaborate with industry leaders and experts, fostering invaluable connections and learning opportunities within a vast professional network.
• Development of Core Skills: Hone your expertise in complex transformation program planning, stakeholder management, and risk governance, crucial for senior leadership roles.
• Contribution to a Critical Mission: Be part of a program dedicated to strengthening financial crime prevention and enhancing automation, a vital function in today's global financial landscape.
• Career Progression: This role offers a clear pathway for growth within Barclays, with opportunities to take on greater responsibility and leadership.

Key Considerations for Aspiring Candidates:

To thrive in this role, candidates should possess a strong foundation in the following areas:

• Financial Crime Risk Expertise: Proven experience working within financial crime risk programs, demonstrating a deep understanding of associated risks and the urgency of delivery.
• Portfolio & Programme Management: Extensive experience in portfolio planning and managing large, complex transformation programmes.
• Exceptional Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes, effectively resolve issues, and manage diverse stakeholder expectations across various levels.
• Governance and Risk Acumen: A solid understanding of programme governance, including change control, milestone closure, reporting, risk management, and decision-making processes.
• Change Management Proficiency: Experience in managing change delivery, including maintaining project plans, identifying risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Data Mastery: High levels of accuracy and attention to detail in data management and project reporting, with advanced proficiency in MS Excel (pivots, formulae, VLOOKUPs, macros).

Highly Valued Skills:

• Ability to construct and maintain delivery plans/roadmaps across multiple programmes.
• Experience in defining critical paths and managing interdependencies.
• A good understanding of various change delivery methodologies (e.g., waterfall, agile).
• A proactive approach to challenging assumptions, highlighting gaps, and validating findings with stakeholders.
• Confidence in engaging with senior management.
• Skill in producing clear, concise planning updates and presenting data effectively (Excel, PPT).

Barclays is committed to developing its colleagues. You will be assessed on key skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, in addition to your job-specific technical skills. This role, based in our London office, offers a stimulating environment for professionals eager to make a tangible difference in the financial crime landscape.