Finance Vice President

Barclays•Wilmington, DE

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Purpose of the role To manage the financial operations of the organisation, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of financial reporting. Join Barclays as a Finance Vice President, where you'll have the chance to lead the full spectrum of accounting and financial control activities for the Barclays Bank Delaware legal entity under US GAAP and the USCB segment under IFRS. You’ll play a pivotal role as a member of the Finance team, providing strategic leadership across financial accounting, partnership accounting, tax, regulatory reporting, accounting policy, and financial controls. In this role, you’ll advise the Controller, CFO and USCB executive leadership on complex accounting implications tied to acquisitions, contract negotiations, and other key business decisions and oversee the related execution from a financial reporting perspective. You’ll also oversee a high‑performing team responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and transparency of all financial reporting activities.

Requirements

Deep expertise in corporate accounting and financial controls, with strong command of both US GAAP and IFRS and the ability to manage complex reporting across multiple legal entities.
Strong advisory and team‑leadership capabilities, with the ability to guide senior leaders on accounting implications of business decisions while developing a high‑performing finance team.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting strategic transactions, such as acquisitions or complex contract negotiations, with the ability to assess and communicate accounting implications.
Background working within large, highly regulated financial institutions, with familiarity navigating multi‑entity, global reporting structures and executive‑level governance.
Proficiency driving process optimization and control enhancements, including strengthening reporting frameworks, financial systems, and cross‑functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

Manage the preparation and presentation of accurate and timely financial statements and other accounting records in accordance with relevant accounting standards, rules, and regulations.
Support in identification, assessment, and mitigation of financial risks, and report on these financial risks to senior colleagues.
Develop and maintain a robust system of internal controls to safeguard assets, ensure no fraudulent misreporting, and ensure the accuracy of financial data, including regular assessment of effectiveness and addressing weaknesses.
Develop and implement up-to-date financial policies and procedures to ensure consistent and effective financial practices across the organisation.
Manage the selection, implementation, and maintenance of financial systems and software applications, including collaboration with IT colleagues to integrate financial systems.
Prepare and submit statutory and regulatory reports to authorities, and provide support to other departments in their preparation and review of regulatory reports.
Coordinate with external auditors and regulatory authorities in support of audits and examinations.
Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change.
Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
Define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes (if managing a team).
Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short and long term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements (if managing a team).
Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours (Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others) to create an environment for colleagues to thrive (if leadership responsibilities).
Act as a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction (for an individual contributor).
Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for inclusion of other areas of specialisation (for an individual contributor).
Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions (for an individual contributor).
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.
Perform in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking 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.
Lead the full spectrum of accounting and financial control activities for the Barclays Bank Delaware legal entity under US GAAP and the USCB segment under IFRS.
Provide strategic leadership across financial accounting, partnership accounting, tax, regulatory reporting, accounting policy, and financial controls.
Advise the Controller, CFO and USCB executive leadership on complex accounting implications tied to acquisitions, contract negotiations, and other key business decisions.
Oversee the related execution from a financial reporting perspective.
Oversee a high‑performing team responsible for ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and transparency of all financial reporting activities.