Financial Controller - BPL

As Financial Controller for Barclaycard Payments, you’ll take full ownership of the end to end accounting and financial control environment for the payments acceptance business. You’ll lead all financial control activities, ensuring accurate reporting, strong governance, and a well controlled close process. Managing a team across the UK and India, you’ll set clear direction, build capability, and create a high performing function that operates to best in class standards.

You’ll play a critical role in building the finance team from the ground up, designing a modern, scalable control framework aligned to Enterprise Risk Management principles and supported by effective systems and processes. As the business grows and transforms through its long term partnership with Brookfield, you’ll ensure finance remains a trusted partner—providing robust oversight, clear financial insight, and a strong control environment.

This is a hands on leadership role where you’ll shape how financial control supports innovation, growth, and long term strategic success within the payments business.

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 (BPL) 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, please visit

To be successful as a Financial Controller,, you should have experience with:

• Financial Control expertise, with experience leading end‑to‑end accounting and control environments, ideally complemented by change and transformation delivery
• Relevant professional qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA) with a strong technical accounting and governance background
• Fin Tech experience is desirable, particularly within payments or acquiring, bringing an understanding of fast‑growth, transaction‑driven business models’

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.

To manage the financial operations of the organisation, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of financial reporting.

• Management of the preparation and presentation of accurate and timely financial statements, and other accounting records in accordance with the relevant accounting standards, rules and regulations.
• Support in identification,assessment,and mitigation of financial risks, and report on these financial risks to senior colleagues.
• Development and maintenance of a robust system of internal controls to safeguard assets, ensure that there is no fraudulent misreporting, and ensure the accuracy of financial data, including regular assessment of the effectiveness of internal controls addressing any weaknesses or gaps. .
• Development and implementation of up‑to‑date financial policies and procedures to ensure consistent and effective financial practices across the organisation.
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