Corporate FP&A Senior Analyst - BPL

Barclays; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Corporate FP&A Senior Analyst within Barclaycard Payments (BPL) to support budgeting, forecasting and month‑end reporting. You will help manage P&L, deliver high‑quality financial analysis and reporting to enable informed decisions across the business.

You will contribute to month‑end results, forecasts and planning, maintain financial models and reporting packs, and drive continuous improvements to processes and capabilities.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent) with financial planning and reporting experience.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret financial information and identify drivers, trends and risks.
• Ability to analyse large datasets and translate into actionable insights for finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Good communication and stakeholder management to present complex information clearly.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain financial models, reporting packs and planning assumptions.
• Lead variance analysis and performance reporting to support decision‑making.
• Support month‑end close, forecasting and budgeting cycles.
• Collaborate with Corporate FP&A Lead and business unit owners to drive improvements.

Skills

Financial planning

Financial reporting

Financial analysis

Stakeholder mgmt

Data analysis

Financial modelling

Education

ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent

Job description

As a Corporate FP&A Senior Analyst within Barclaycard Payments (BPL), you'll support the delivery of the end-to-end budgeting, forecasting, and month-end reporting cycle, helping to ensure the business has a clear and accurate view of financial performance. Working closely with the Corporate FP&A Lead, you'll contribute to the management of the P&L, producing high-quality financial analysis and reporting to support decision‑making across the business.

You'll help prepare month‑end results, forecasts, and planning processes, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial information. Through detailed variance analysis and performance reporting, you'll provide insights into key drivers, trends, risks, and opportunities. You will play a key role in maintaining financial models, reporting packs, and planning assumptions, while supporting continuous improvements to processes and reporting capabilities.

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.

In April 2025, we announced a long‑term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients. Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation – activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve‑outs – to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long‑term growth.

Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance‑linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long‑term commitment to the transformation. Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments (BPL) brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years.

For more information on our partnership with Brookfield, please visit Barclays.com.

To be successful as Corporate FP&A Senior Analyst, you should be able to demonstrate:

• Qualified Accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), or nearing completion of a professional accounting qualification, with experience in financial planning, reporting and analysis.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret financial information and identify key performance drivers, trends, and risks.
• Ability to analyse and understand large‑scale datasets, translating complex information into clear and actionable insights for both finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to present financial information clearly and concisely.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Experience within an EMI, payment institution, or other FCA-regulated payments business.
• Experience working within a large, transaction‑led organisation, with exposure to financial performance analysis, forecasting, and budgeting processes.

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 provide financial expertise and support to specific business units or departments within the organisation, and act as a liaison between the finance function and various business units, helping to bridge the gap between financial data and business decisions.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of business unit financial strategies, plans and budgets, using insights to evaluate the financial implications of strategic initiatives and recommend appropriate actions.
• Development of financial models to forecast future performance, assess investment opportunities and evaluate financial risks for business units, and to analyse the impact of business decisions on financial performance and provision of recommendations.
• Cross functional collaboration to provide financial insights and guidance to business unit stakeholders.
• Identification of opportunities and implementation of financial process improvements that streamline financial operations.
• Support to business units in identification, assessment and mitigation of financial risks, including provision of training and guidance to business units on financial risk management and compliance practices.
• Analysis and presentation of financial data to provide insights into business performance, identify trends and support decision‑making.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To 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.
• 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.
• 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. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.