Finance Business Partner Assistant Vice President
Wilmington, DE

As a Barclays Finance Business Partner Assistant Vice President, you will be responsible for managing the financial analysis for several key partners in our Travel and Affinity Portfolios supporting the Business Management team providing financial knowledge and insights to drive the most effective strategy, maximizing growth and returns to exceed the goals of the company. The role requires both high analytical and presentation skills and has high visibility within the Finance and Business Segment Management organizations.

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?
• Understanding financial results and P&L drivers, metrics and trends to build accurate partner/segment forecasts
• Analysing of partnership performance comparing actuals vs. forecast to identify opportunities and risks for the business
• Preparing Management Information packages to effectively communicate these results and insights to Senior Management
• Building scenarios around products and initiatives; partner renewals and renegotiations, value proposition optimization, new partnerships, and relationship restructuring
• Producing Quarterly Forecasts and ongoing Outlooks to guide the business understanding expected performance and drivers
• Building a collaborative environment and maintaining effective communication channels within the different business and supporting teams to increase participation
• Interacting directly with external partners as necessary and supporting short-term and long-term initiatives (tracking, validation, and analytics)
• Working closely with the Finance Corporate Planning team to ensure timely inputs into process, ranging from weekly O&R updates to corporate level forecasts

What we're looking for?
• Five plus years of experience in Credit Card or Financial Industry. Bachelor's degree minimum and Advanced Microsoft Excel skills are critical
• Analytical, technical, and statistical skills with proven ability to process data into meaningful information
• Leadership, interpersonal, multi-tasking, teamwork, and communication skills, and a result oriented candidate able to bring closure to issues working with individuals
• Proactive, dedicated self-starter who has the courage to ask questions and challenge the status quo

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Degree in Finance or Quantitative discipline preferred
• Master's degree/MBA preferred
• SmartView/Essbase, SQL, Alteryx experience a plus

Where will you be working?

Barclays' Wilmington campus includes two beautiful buildings located along the historic Wilmington Riverfront. A glance out our windows reveal a scenic look at the Christina River, along with a growing riverfront community of luxury apartments, shops, and restaurants. Additionally, the Wilmington train station is a short walk away making travel from New York and Washington, DC convenient.

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