Treasury Funding and Execution VP

Join Barclays as a Treasury Funding and Execution VP, where you’ll have the opportunity to manage daily funding, liquidity, and execution activities that ensure the firm maintains strong financial resilience and operational stability. Your role will apply deep experience across finance, accounting, or treasury—typically gained within corporate treasury teams, banks, or consumer/credit‑card institutions—to optimize funding strategies and support balance sheet efficiency. In this role you will have the chance of identifying, assessing, and mitigating funding and liquidity risks while maintaining a disciplined control environment. By working closely with cross‑functional partners, you will help ensure that treasury decisions align with regulatory expectations, and the firm’s broader financial strategy.

To be successful as a Treasury Funding and Execution VP you should have:

• Degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or equivalent experience in Treasury, balance sheet management, ALM, liquidity risk management, or capital markets

• Advanced proficiency in data analytics and reporting tools, particularly Excel

• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to work independently, navigate multiple priorities, and deliver high-quality outputs in a fast-paced environment

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience with trade execution, trade capture processes, and front‑to‑back transaction workflows

• Professional certification in Treasury, Risk Management, or related discipline, along with knowledge of governance frameworks within financial institutions

• Background in markets or consumer banking, with familiarity across funding, liquidity, and balance‑sheet‑driven businesses preferred

 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 located in Wilmington, DE. 

Purpose of the role

To optimise the bank's liquidity, funding, and investment strategies to ensure the efficient management of its financial resources. 

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of business unit treasury strategies, policies and initiatives, using insights to evaluate the strategy implications on liquidity, funding and investment.
• Identification of potential treasury management opportunities, analysis of financial operations and cash flow patterns, and provision of expert guidance and customised solutions to address treasury management challenges.
• Collaboration with business units to understand their specific liquidity, funding, and investment needs, and evaluation of the alignment of business unit strategies with overall treasury objectives.
• Identification and implementation of process improvements, utilising treasury management systems effectively, and leveraging technology to enhance efficiency and decision-making across business units.
• Development of tailored treasury management solutions to address specific requirements of the business including the optimisation of cash flow management, funding structures and investment strategies.
• Representation of treasury on cross-functional teams, including risk management, compliance, and financial planning committees, and facilitation of collaboration and ensure treasury considerations are incorporated into business decisions.
• Communication of treasury policies, procedures, and risk management standards to business units, ensuring their compliance and alignment with overarching treasury principles.
• Analysis of market trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes to identify potential opportunities for new treasury management products and services.

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.