M&A Business Manager AVP

Barclays • New York, NY

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Join Barclays as an M&A Business Manager AVP, where you will have the chance to serve as a strategic partner to senior banking leadership, driving execution of business priorities while ensuring disciplined performance management across the M&A franchise. The role is responsible for overseeing financial tracking, pipeline governance, and revenue forecasting, delivering clear insights on business performance, and identifying opportunities for optimization. In your role, you will play a critical role in developing and enhancing business intelligence metrics to support forecasting, strategic planning, and decision-making. Acting as a catalyst for change, the position leads key transformation initiatives to improve efficiency, scalability, and alignment with firm-wide objectives. In parallel, it ensures a robust governance framework by partnering with control functions to maintain regulatory compliance and a strong risk culture. The role also provides leverage to leadership through stakeholder coordination, market analysis, and preparation of executive materials, requiring strong collaboration, adaptability, and the ability to influence across global teams.

Requirements

• Proven experience in business management, strategy execution, or COO/Business Manager functions within Investment Banking, with strong understanding of M&A deal lifecycles and financial drivers
• Advanced analytical and financial management skills, including revenue forecasting, pipeline tracking, budgeting, and performance analysis, with proficiency in building and delivering management information (MI)
• Stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and collaborate effectively across global teams, including Finance, Compliance, and Front Office
• Demonstrated experience leading business transformation or strategic initiatives that drive operational efficiency and scalability within a banking environment
• Understanding of governance, risk, and control frameworks, with experience partnering with audit, compliance, or control functions in a regulated financial institution
• Ability to synthesize market trends and competitive intelligence into actionable insights, supporting both short-term execution and long-term strategic planning
• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• Job-specific technical skills

Nice To Haves

• 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. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others. OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Collaboration with business and senior leadership to develop and implement business strategies that align with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.
• Liaison between different business units and functions, fostering communication and collaboration.
• Management and coordination of strategic initiatives, projects, and change management efforts to optimize business processes and strengthen the control environment.
• Improvement of operational efficiency within the organisation including the identification of areas for improvement, streamlining of processes, and implementation of best practices to enhance productivity and effectiveness.
• Development of performance reporting for key metrics that reinforce the strategic objectives of the division and support the external commitments made.
• Involvement in aspects of financial analysis and budget management, including assistance in financial planning, forecasting, and monitoring of financial performance against targets.
• Support to business heads in partnership with HR on hiring, workforce planning, joiner/mover/leaver actions.
• 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, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• Identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing 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 that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
• Overseeing financial tracking, pipeline governance, and revenue forecasting.
• Delivering clear insights on business performance, and identifying opportunities for optimization.
• Developing and enhancing business intelligence metrics to support forecasting, strategic planning, and decision-making.
• Leading key transformation initiatives to improve efficiency, scalability, and alignment with firm-wide objectives.
• Ensuring a robust governance framework by partnering with control functions to maintain regulatory compliance and a strong risk culture.
• Providing leverage to leadership through stakeholder coordination, market analysis, and preparation of executive materials.

Benefits

• The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed