VP Metrics, Reporting and Governance lead

Barclays UK; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in London seeks a Metrics, Reporting and Governance Lead to establish robust governance frameworks and drive performance measurement across UK Corporate Banking. You will partner with stakeholders to oversee key programs, ensuring compliance and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. The ideal candidate has strong skills in governance, agile methodologies, and data visualization tools like Power BI. Competitive package offered.

Qualifications

• Experience in stakeholder engagement and communication.
• Skilled in crafting executive narratives and stakeholder updates.
• Ability to tailor messages across different audiences.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop comprehensive reports and dashboards.
• Implement automated report generation processes.
• Identify business requirements for report content and format.

Skills

Ability to define and embed a comprehensive metrics framework

Expertise in designing governance models

Strong command of tools like JIRA, Confluence, Tableau, Power BI, Excel

Ability to work in an agile environment

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Tableau

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Join us at Barclays as a Metrics, Reporting and Governance Lead and be responsible for establishing and maintaining robust governance frameworks, driving effective change management, and ensuring accurate performance measurement across UK Corporate Banking. your role ensures that strategic initiatives, regulatory requirements, and operational changes are delivered in a controlled, transparent, and efficient manner. You will partner with senior stakeholders to oversee key change programs, monitor business performance through meaningful metrics and KPIs, and embed a culture of continuous improvement, compliance, and accountability.

Key Skills:

• Ability to define and embed a comprehensive metrics framework that spans input, output, outcome, and behavioural KPIs.

• Expertise in designing governance models and reporting structures that connect transformation scorecards with platform-level dashboards.

• Translate strategic objectives into measurable indicators across transformation pillars such as Colleague Ways of Working, Culture & Capability, and Client Experience

• Strong command of tools like JIRA, Confluence, Tableau, Power BI, and Excel to enable real-time reporting and cross-team visibility.

• Ability to work in an agile environment

Desirable Skills:

• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Skilled in crafting executive narratives and stakeholder updates that drive awareness, alignment, and adoption of transformation goals

• Ability to tailor messages across different audiences using frameworks like “Know, Feel, Do” and multimodal communication

This role is based in London.

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

Purpose of the role

To support the bank's decision-making processes by providing timely, accurate, and insightful information through designing, developing, and maintaining management reports and dashboards that effectively communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) and trends across various business units.

Accountabilities

• Design and development of comprehensive reports and dashboards using various data visualization tools and techniques.
• Design, development and implementation of automated report generation processes for improved efficiency and timeliness.
• Identification and analysis of business requirements to define report content and format.
• Maintenance and updating of existing reports and dashboards to reflect changing business needs, including co-ordination of reporting template releases and related administrative tasks.
• Development of robust processes & controls for collating input data & seeking signoffs as required.
• Engagement with stakeholders as needed to ensure up to date data is incorporated into reporting.

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..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.