hackajob
Director, Head of Payments Schemes and Industry Engagement
London
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hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.
Key Requirements
- Looking for an experienced individual that will lead our UK payments industry team
- This individual will act as Barclays' senior representative with the Bank of England and key UK payment schemes (FPS, Bacs, CHAPS etc)
- Lead external engagement on emerging payment industry policy, regulatory change, and scheme developments
- Assess the business and operational implications of proposed regulatory requirements and industry initiatives, providing strategic advice to senior stakeholders on payment industry developments and associated risks/opportunities
- Coordinate cross-functional responses on complex regulatory consultations and scheme obligations across multiple business areas
- Ensure Barclays remains compliant with external payment-related obligations and requirements
- Represent Barclays in industry forums, working groups, and consultations
Key Skills
- Deep knowledge of UK payments regulation, payment systems, and scheme governance
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior internal and external audiences
- Excellent regulatory analysis and interpretation capability
- Strategic thinking and the ability to translate industry developments into business actions.
- Strong verbal communication, negotiation, and relationship-management skills.
- Experience navigating complex organisational structures and coordinating cross-functional teams
- Leadership, judgement, and decision-making skills in a highly regulated environment
Purpose of the role
To manage operations within a business area and maintain processes, risk management initiatives and compliance with relevant regulators.
Accountabilities
- Identification of trends and opportunities to improve areas and develop new process and procedures through the monitoring and analysis of operation data and performance metrics.
- Management of operations for a business area and promote efficient processes, risk management and compliance initiatives to support the bank's operations.
- Collaboration with internal stakeholders (including business leaders, project manager and SMEs) and external stakeholders (including vendors and service providers) to support business operations and promote alignment with the bank's objectives and SLAs.
- Management of operational professionals and provide guidance, coaching and support to improve colleagues' delivery quality.
- Management and development of KPIs to measure the effectiveness of operation functions, utilising data and technology to support the identification of areas that require improvement.
- Compliance with all regulatory requirements and internal policies related to customer experience.
- Creation of a safe environment for colleagues to speak up, actively and regularly encourage and solicit feedback to ensure people agenda remains focused on the right areas.
- Management of attrition by working closely with HR in implementing retention initiatives for workforce.
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Director Expectations
- To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide.
- They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
- Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
- Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
- Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
- Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
- Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
- Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
- Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
- Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ business divisions.
- Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
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All Senior 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.
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.
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Payments Regulation
Payment Systems
Scheme Governance
Stakeholder Management
Regulatory Analysis
Strategic Thinking
Verbal Communication
Negotiation
Relationship Management
Leadership
Judgement
Decision Making
Cross-Functional Coordination
Risk Management
Compliance
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