Hedge Accounting Transformation

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we shape it. Hedge Accounting Transformation is a multi-year programme committed to extending the service offering and thus revenue and economic hedging opportunities to stakeholders globally, alongside revolutionising the reporting and control environment. It involves a grass roots re-design of the existing platform whilst managing business continuity and the wind down of the existing system.

Embark on a transformative journey as VP Hedge Accounting Transformation, where you'll be responsible for designing and delivering systemic solutions to the accounting specialism of Hedge Accounting, expanding the existing product offering under IAS39, considering accounting legislation in different jurisdictions whilst also considering the longer term adoption of IFRS9 and Dynamic Risk Management. This will be executed through a hybrid of delivering extensions to the existing platform whilst ensuring the required transformation outcomes align with finance architecture strategy, drive standardisation, efficiency of operation and future state design principles and business requirements.

Key Accountabilities:

The Hedge Accounting Transformation VP is accountable for owning specific initiatives as part of the overall finance architecture strategy. This will include:

• Become a trusted advisor to Treasury, Finance, PIO and technology colleagues regarding the Hedge Accounting Transformation programme and wider Finance business architecture strategy.

• Actively drive transformation outcomes for the function, through a strategic lens.

• Pro-actively identify opportunities for improvement, develop the conversation and challenge the status quo.

• Narrating and championing the transformation journey.

• Provide guidance and support to Treasury transformation teams and business users across Treasury.

• Presenting and influencing key stakeholders at the Design Authority, Project Forums and other project meetings.

To be successful as a VP Hedge Accounting Transformation, you should have: 

• A demonstrable track record within a Hedge Accounting, Treasury or MTM Product Control environment, working on a variety of relevant projects.

• Knowledge of interest rate derivatives and risk drivers, with experience of Finance process, system and technologies.

• Professional Accounting qualification.

• Demonstrate a range of styles and techniques in leadership and communications, including influencing and negotiating with a broad set of stakeholders.

• Appreciation of data principles, including data modelling and data design.

• Strong data manipulation skills including Excel and experience using data manipulation tools (e.g. Qlikview, Business Objects, Lumira, SmartView, SQL, SAS).

• Excellent Power-point skills, with the ability to storyboard and produce best in class presentations.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• The ideal candidate will have experience of finance transformation programs and a good understanding of project management techniques and principles, and process management skills and techniques (Lean, Six Sigma).

• A continuous learning mind-set; someone who applies analytical reasoning and problem solving to all they do.

You may be assessed on 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.

Purpose of the role

To develop business capabilities for Finance through key stages of functional design, data, end-to-end-process and controls, delivery, and functional testing. 

Accountabilities

• Functional Design: leveraging best practice concepts, and in collaboration with Line SMEs, support options analysis and recommendations as part of decision making.
• Data Analysis/Modelling/Governance: design conceptual data model underpinning all phases of the processes, and governance requirements in accordance with GDMS standards and principles.
• End-to-End Process & Controls - development of target process and controls design/documentation and operational runbooks and aligning these components with organisational and role/service model design definitions.   .
• Delivery/Implementation Support: update design/functional requirements throughout the development cycle, and resolve RAIDS related to functional requirements and business processes. Project management for change programmes that have limited technology investment.
• Functional Testing: develop scripts and data to test alignment to requirement definitions, ahead of user testing cycles.

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 department’s 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.