Barclaycard Acquiring - Internal Audit VP; Gaia

Overview

Join us as a Barclaycard Acquiring Payments Internal Audit VP, where you will play a pivotal role in providing independent assurance and insights supporting Barclays’s Acquiring business and its multi-year transformation agenda. You will work as part of an audit team in London delivering impactful audit work across Barclaycard Acquiring Transformation and the UK Corporate Bank issuing businesses. In this role, you will serve as an audit lead: providing end-to-end assurance for Barclaycard Acquiring Transformation, ensuring robust, timely and insightful audit coverage across customer/merchant lifecycle impacts.

You will support the Barclaycard Acquiring Director in defining the audit approach for a multi-year, enterprise-critical transformation that modernises Barclaycard Acquiring’s platforms, products, controls, and customer experience. You will coordinate assurance across global and regional BIA teams, partnering closely with Financial Crime, Compliance, Technology, Payments, Operations, Product, Legal, Finance, Risk and Change leaders to assess programme design, execution risks, and emerging control themes.

You will provide end-to-end assurance for UK Corporate Bank issuing business including focusing on key risks such as Credit and Fraud.

Note: The following sections provide details on required experience, responsibilities, leadership expectations, and key disclosures to help understand the role.

• Proven experience in auditing transformation initiatives within a bank or financial services environment. Experience in payments processes, merchant acquiring, credit card issuing, financial technology (fin tech).
• Proven track records in the ability to lead and manage teams and building relationships with senior management.
• Experience of dealing with the regulators.
• Strong critical thinking, able to challenge transformation decisions, delivery risks, and design assumptions.
• Preferably with extensive relevant internal audit/risk and controls experience in an Investment Bank or related financial services.

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.

This role will be based in London.

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 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 (programme ‘Gaia’), please visit

To support the development of audits aligned to the bank’s standards and objectives by working collaboratively with colleagues, providing accurate information and recommendations, and complying with policies and procedures.

• Audit development and delivery support, including financial statements, accounting practices, operational processes, IT systems and risk management.
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