Portfolio Planning Manager

Join Barclays as a Portfolio Planning Manager, where you'll be part of a multi-faceted Financial Crime Risk Programme. You will help lead the planning of the change initiatives ensuring they align to the Bank’s risk reduction and growth principles. You will be responsible for managing a consistent planning process across the Portfolio and will help to provide consolidated views of Financial Crime Change deliverables, benefits (risk and non-risk), and costs, to Executive Committees, Boards, and Regulators. You’ll also benefit from being part of a vast professional network, collaborating with industry leaders and experts.

The Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio is a multi-year Financial Crime programme of change encompassing over 20 programmes to create a holistic, risk-based and effective Financial Crime Risk environment and strengthen robustness and enhance automation of Financial Crime Risk processes. We aim to develop and strengthen our skills and capabilities across all lines of defence, empowering our partners, colleagues and customers to identify and prevent Financial Crime by raising awareness of the risks.

To be successful as a Portfolio Planning Manager, you should have experience with:

• Working on financial crime risk programmes, understanding the nature of the risks and the urgency of delivery.
• Portfolio planning & planning management of large complex transformation programmes.
• Stakeholder management experience with the ability to influence outcomes, resolve issues effectively and manage expectations.
• Understanding of programme governance including change control, milestone closure, programme reporting and a proficient understanding of risk management and decision making.
• Change management and delivery, including maintenance of project plans, schedules, identification of risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies.
• High levels of accuracy and attention to detail in both data (e.g. planning and dependencies in spreadsheets) and project reporting Advanced expertise in MS Excel – to include advance use of pivots tables, advances formulae, VLOOKUPS, macros etc.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Ability to build and maintain delivery plans / roadmaps across multiple programmes.
• Experience defining critical paths and managing interdependencies.
• Good understanding of change delivery (waterfall, agile etc).
• Ability to challenge assumptions and highlight gaps and validate with key stakeholders.
• Confident engaging with senior Management.
• Able to produce clear, concise planning updates.
• Comfortable interpreting and presenting data (excel, PPT etc).

You may be assessed on the 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.

This role will be based in our London office