Vendor Finance Manager

Vendor Finance Manager

Join us at Barclays as a Vendor Finance Manager, where you will play a key role in supporting financial operations through strong analytical capability and sound financial judgment. In this role, you will bring a solid finance background along with a good understanding of bookkeeping principles.

You will be responsible for analysing financial data, performing invoice reconciliations, and ensuring accuracy across financial records. This position requires someone who is confident working independently, thrives under pressure, and demonstrates strong attention to detail when handling numbers.

To manage the IT Services department and set strategic direction, provide support to the bank's senior management team, and manage IT Service risk across the organisation, supporting the bank's operations and representing technology service performance with senior stakeholders.

• Development of strategic direction for IT Services, including the implementation of up‑to‑date methodologies and processes.
• Management of the IT Services department, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, and oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Relationship management of IT Services stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders and maintaining the quality of external third‑party services.
• Development and implementation of policies and procedures for IT Services, implementation and adherence of control targets and standards, and managing adherence to group SLAs and controls associated with core technology production activities in incident, problem, and change.
• Management of IT Services risk, including identification of potential IT Services risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank's change and compliance functions.
• Monitoring the financial performance of the IT Services department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control, driving value from commercial agreements, and strong management of directly controlled costs.
• Management of IT Services projects, including driving successful research and related product launches, and delivery of integrated solutions to clients.
• Effectively monitor and maintain the bank's critical technology infrastructure and resolve more complex technical issues, whilst minimising disruption to operations.

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness; collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, delivering work that impacts the whole business function; set objectives, coach employees, appraise performance, and determine reward outcomes.
• 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.
• Lead collaborative assignments, guide team members through structured assignments, identify need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation, and identify new directions for assignments or projects.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work closely related to other areas, requiring understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of organisational objectives.
• Collaborate with other areas of work to keep up to speed with business activity and business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources, internal and external, to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information; sensitive or difficult to communicate.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the…