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Date live:
Jan. 27, 2025
Business Area:
Finance
Area of Expertise:
Finance
Reference Code:
JR-0000030255
Contract:
Permanent
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Explore locationOverall purpose of role
The role supports the Japan business across Investment Banking and Global Markets. The main activities of the role include providing Japan Senior Managementwith key financials and analytics to aid them to understand, measure, managing and driving the Japan’s performance and profitability.
The role requires the ability to handle large amount of data and information from different sources, process and analyse them as well as strong knowledge of the businesses, combined with a strong understanding of the control framework of a large complex multinational organisation. A key part of the role is effectively managing stakeholders by building string relationships to enable the individual to partner, advise and influence them.
Key Accountabilities
Provide high quality commercial, timely and insightful analysis to key Business, Country and Finance stakeholders to help drive regional performance. This includes Revenues, Sales and Originationmetrics, Costs, Risk Weighted Assetsetc.
Partner with global / local stakeholders to deliver Management Information and ad-hoc analysis.
Ad-hoc work such as Short and Medium Term Plans, profitability analysis, and various Town hall/Visitor presentations for Senior Management.
Supporting the business on Finance related queries and growth plans (NAPA).
Stakeholder Management and Leadership
This role requires extensive and effective stakeholder management with primarily regional stakeholders but also maintaining connectivity with Global teams in order to collaborate, leverage and influence a wide stakeholder group both regionally and globally. It includes (but not limited) to the following:
Finance: Japan CFO, Product Control, Financial Control, Cost management, Treasury, Tax and Internal Reporting team etc
Business: Business Heads, Business Managers, Product heads, Client Strategy, Country Headsetc.
Other infrastructure departments like HR, Risk, Operations etc.
Decision-making and Problem Solving
Systematic approach to understanding problems, evaluating options and making decisions that take into account input from all relevant stakeholders.
Ability to understand and interpret diverse data sets & systems and put it into a broader context/perspective with a client focused mindset.
Provide Independent and objective assessment to the stakeholders.
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
Able to handle large amount of data / information from different sources, process and analyse them. Good attention to details and able to identify trends/anomalies/linkages and provide insightful analysis timely.
Strong knowledge of business performance metrics (e.g. trading revenue, sales credits, Banking revenue, Costs, RWAs etc)
Strong knowledge of Investment Banking businesses. Able to leverage this knowledge and data analysis to effectively manage the stakeholders including partnering, advising and influencing them.
Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills. Able to engage and interact with senior stakeholders across Finance, Front office and other infrastructure areas.
Japanese language is required along with strong written and verbal communication skills in English
Knowledge over J Gaap and Japan regulatory reporting in a complex global organisation, plus knowledge of legal entities, transfer pricing and recharge mechanism is strongly preferred.
Current Director or equivalent with team management experience is preferred.
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
Drive for results, highly motivated self-starter, curious about how things work.
Excel (Pivot Tables, VBA) and Power Point / Presentation skills to present findings in a concise and effective manner.
CPA or Tax accountant qualification isrequired
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.
Director Expectations
- To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
- They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
- Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
- Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
- Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
- Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
- Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
- Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
- Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
- Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
- Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
All Senior 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.
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.