Portfolio Management Office

Date live:
**19/08/2025**

Business Area:
**BUK COO Office**

Area of Expertise:
**Change**

Contract:
**Permanent**

Reference Code:
**JR-0000045341**

Join us at Barclays as we are seeking an experienced and dynamic **Portfolio Management Office** to join our transformation team within Barclays UK. This role is pivotal in supporting the delivery of successful change across the portfolio, ensuring processes and practices align with internal controls, governance standards, and strategic objectives. You will be expected to Identify and escalate risks and opportunities relating to change and financial delivery and Drive clarity on financial performance and challenge variances, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.

Success in the role will be measured by the following key skills:

- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills - comfortable working with senior leadership and across matrixed teams.
- Proven experience in managing finances within change delivery, including planning, tracking, forecasting, and reporting.
- Ability to hit the ground running - you understand the pace, expectations, and processes of a large banking institution.
- Working knowledge of Barclays’ internal governance, change, and financial management processes

Experience working within a financial services organisation, ideally with exposure to change and transformation program's is highly beneficial.

You may be assessed on 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.

**Purpose of the role**

To support the portfolio in the delivery of successful change, by ensuring that processes and practices are aligned with relevant controls and governance standards and that all activity is aligned with the strategic objectives of the business area / organisation.

**Accountabilities**
- Facilitate portfolio prioritisation, ensuring the portfolio is compliant with the established control framework, including oversight of controls and standards.
- Support the effective governance of the portfolio, helping establish and operate effective Portfolio Governance that enables quality, data driven decision making, ensuring executive reporting is fit for purpose and timely.
- Monitor portfolio performance, including tracking of programme and project progress, identification of thematic portfolio risks and issues, and reporting on portfolio status to senior management and key stakeholders.
- Facilitate the management of the portfolio Book of Work, prioritisation and dependencies of change initiatives, considering factors like resource availability, stakeholder buy-in, and potential risks.
- Oversight of change delivery to ensure alignment with relevant policies and standards, driving consistent, robust controls data; monitoring indicators of control adherence, acting to remediate any weaknesses in the controls; and identifying and implementing actions to drive greater maturity against key control indicators.
- Review, resolve, manage and escalate portfolio risks and issues, challenging where appropriate and actively supporting the resolution of variances as necessary.
- Engage and influence all stakeholders to help them to understand their responsibilities and fulfil them effectively through clear, timely communication and well facilitated portfolio management processes.
- Support an environment of effective delivery by empowering portfolio management resources, utilising data led thinking to inform decisions, leverage expertise, and drive accountability and transparency.
- Operate as a source of best practice guidance and expertise, to ensure consistent excellence around controls, and governance (including training) is embedded across the portfolio.

**Vice President Expectations**
- To contribute 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..
- If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
- 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..
- Advise key stakeholders, includ