Treasury Lead BPL

A fantastic opportunity to join us as we create a standalone Payments Acquiring business embracing a fintech culture from our new offices alongside our Brookfield partners. This is an exciting time to join a unique project well suited to candidates who thrive in a fast paced, flat organisation with significant autonomy. 

The Finance team are a core strategic partner that drives financial performance and forecasting, manages financial operations including financial control and provides key treasury and cash management expertise.

This is an opportunity to join as the Treasury Lead for the new business to stand up the new business activity with a focus immediately on Treasury Operations including FX management, Cash and Liquidity Management (CLM) and managing Liquidity Risk, before the role broadens out to other aspects of treasury and cash management including Capital Management and Allocation, Balance Sheet Optimisation and alternative forms of enhancing merchant funding.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• Professional certification in Treasury, Accountancy or Risk Management.

• Solid knowledge of cash and liquidity management, treasury operations, or funding in a financial institution.

• Experience of end to end cash and liquidity management for a Corporate or Mid-Corporate sized business.

• Demonstrated analytical and modelling skills.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders using a variety of communication styles.

• Experience of delivering within an agile framework - quarterly/PI planning, facilitate estimation of work, and ensure timely delivery of initiatives.

• Willingness and ability to take ownership of issues and manage through to a successful resolution

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with 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 or Northampton.

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.

In April 2025, we announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients. Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve-outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long-term growth.

Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance-linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long-term commitment to the transformation. Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments (BPL) brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years.

For more information on our partnership with Brookfield, please visit Barclays.com.

Purpose of the role

To manage the bank's liquidity, funding, and risk profile and maintaining sufficient funds in the bank to meet its obligations and that it is properly hedged against market risks.  

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of investment strategies that support the bank's financial objectives, considering risk-return trade-offs and market conditions.
• Development and implementation of liquidity strategies to optimise the bank's cost of capital and utilisation of various funding instruments, to raise funds efficiently and at favourable rates.
• Optimisation of the bank's liquidity position by management of cash inflows and outflows, maintenance of adequate reserves, and investment of excess funds effectively.
• Evaluation of the most cost-effective sources of funding, and negotiate and structure funding arrangements with counterparties, such as investors and banks.
• Assessment of the bank's exposure to various financial risks, and development and implementation of risk management strategies to mitigate potential losses and maintain the bank's financial stability.
• Optimisation of the bank's capital structure to support the bank's growth and profitability objectives, including management of the bank's exposure to regulatory capital requirements.
• Preparation and presentation of accurate and timely financial statements to reflect the bank's financial position and performance, and analysis of financial data to identify trends, assess performance, and make informed strategic decisions.

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.