Vice President, Investment Finance

London, United Kingdom

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Date live: Sep. 06, 2024

Business Area: HR

Area of Expertise: Finance

Reference Code: 90382044

Contract: Permanent

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As a Barclays Investment Accountant, you will become an integral part of our highly effective in-house pensions executive team. Your role will focus on ensuring best practices are followed to benefit both pension plan members and Barclays. You will oversee all investment-related finance matters for the Barclays Bank UK Retirement Fund (UKRF), a legacy trust-based Defined Benefit (DB) pension scheme with over 200,000 members and assets exceeding £25bn, including £2bn in Defined Contribution (DC) assets. The UKRF is managed by an independent non-executive Trustee Board.

You will oversee financial regulatory reporting, such as submissions to the Office of National Statistics and investment tax filings. Acting as the relationship lead for custodians, you will ensure the delivery of services to the UKRF aligns with contractual agreements across a matrix of stakeholders. You will provide covenant monitoring by managing relationships with suppliers and collaborating with the Bank to deliver these services. Your expertise in investment tax matters, including withholding tax, engagement with custodians, and VAT recovery, will be crucial. Additionally, you will manage the budgeting and cost reporting process, from initial budget setting to ongoing monitoring and reporting.

To be successful as a Investment Accountant, you should have experience with

• Relevant professional qualifications, such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA (or equivalent)

• Significant technical understanding of accounting for complex investments and investment-related financial controls for pension schemes and investment vehicles.

• Investment audit or financial control experience with complex investments.

• Experience in budgeting, cost management, and accounting systems design and development.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Excellent judgment, decisiveness, speed with accuracy, and a commitment to high standards.

• Analytical skills to handle a wide variety of financial and pension-related requirements.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to clearly convey finance issues to a wide range of stakeholders.

• This role offers a unique opportunity to leverage your expertise and make a significant impact on the financial health and governance of the UKRF.

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.

London

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Vice President Expectations

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.

More about working at Barclays

Barclays offices across the UK are designed to be places where our people can come together to do their best work, surrounded by excellent facilities for both work and leisure. These are warm, diverse, supportive communities in some of the UK’s best locations, where everyone can thrive.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

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Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a Carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

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