Date live:05/09/2025
Business Area:Finance
Area of Expertise:Finance
Contract:Permanent
Reference Code:JR-0000069259
As a Payments Safeguarding Lead VP, you’ll work directly with Brookfield to help grow and transform the bank’s payment acceptance business. You will lead the design and execution of processes that safeguard client funds within the payments acceptance business. You’ll be expected to grow and transform Barclays’ payment acceptance business, ensuring safeguarding activities are fully compliant with regulatory expectations and are commercially sound.
Your understanding of relevant regulations will be key as you apply them across the business, delivering efficient, well-controlled solutions that protect client interests. You’ll actively monitor the market environment to identify opportunities and ensure the bank remains competitive while maintaining regulatory alignment. This is a strategic and hands-on role where your ability to balance regulatory compliance with commercial outcomes will be central to shaping the future of Barclays’ payments capability.
To be considered for this role you will have a holistic knowledge of payment institutes and operating model with commercial acumen. You will have an understanding of client safeguarding and experience working with both internal and external senior stakeholders.
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.

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.

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