Americas Finance Business Manager
New York, NY

As a Barclays Americas Finance Business Manager, you will be helping enable communication and collaboration across the Finance team and broader Barclays organization in the Americas. You will work closely with the CFO and other global Finance leaders to set, implement, and monitor the functions’ strategy. This is an opportunity to be managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment and producing best-in-class materials for these projects.

Salary/ Rate Minimum: $150,000
Salary/ Rate Maximum: $185,000

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.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Assisting the Americas CFO (and other CFO’s and Finance Directors are applicable) in the execution of their day-to-day accountabilities
• Driving execution of top priorities agreed upon by the CFO and Finance leadership team and supporting regular and ad hoc control and compliance relate requests
• Leading the preparation and production of executive presentations for the CFO, including regular Board materials, Executive Committee updates, and presentations to regulators
• Overseeing talent acquisition for the Finance organization including Early Careers
• Operating in partnership with Human Resources to support personnel and talent-related initiatives with particular focus on the Diversity and Inclusion agenda
• Driving colleague engagement initiatives and supporting management communication promoting Finance initiatives
• Overseeing all organizational/team requirements relating to technology, real estate, people and communications in conjunction with relevant partners across the firm
• Providing additional assistance on special and/or cross-functional projects

What we’re looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Experience leading a team and influencing global stakeholders and project management/organization skills and attention to detail
• A team player, able to multi-task, and work through conflicting priorities
• Ability to establish trust with business partners and stakeholders at all levels of the organization and a self-starter who thrives in ambiguous environments

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Analytical/problem solving skills and comfortable working with numbers
• Experience working with multiple senior stakeholders
• Effortless storytelling, communication, and synthesis abilities, with ability to summarize large and complex data with insightful analysis

Where will you be working?

You will be working at our Americas Headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. This 32-story office tower is located in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan and features a cafeteria, fitness center and state-of-the-art LED signage on the facade of the building.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.