Workforce & Finance Lead

Join us as a Workforce & Finance Lead at Barclays, where you will play a critical role in driving robust financial governance, operational excellence, and workforce planning across the Cross Digital Platforms (XDP) portfolio. Your responsibilities will include monthly forecasting and actuals reconciliation across the XDP portfolio, ensuring financial transparency and compliance in line with Bank controls. You will lead recruitment activities across XDP globally, managing the recruitment pipeline, agency engagement, and reporting on progress and data insights. Additionally, you will oversee XDP vendor management, contingent worker contract extensions, and XDP workforce management, focusing on owning the XDP training and development plan, supporting objective setting, organizing XDP People Boards, early careers management, team onboarding/offboarding, and creating a positive work environment within XDP. To be successful in this role, you should have extensive experience in a PMO role with a focus on finance and workforce management. Excellent stakeholder management skills are essential, along with a proven track record of managing complex stakeholder relationships at all levels. Strong communication and coordination skills across diverse teams and senior stakeholders are also required, along with a good understanding of project financials, workforce planning tools, and resource management practices. Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, PMO tools (e.g., Workday, JIRA, Tableau), data reporting tools, and collaboration platforms (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Navigator) is necessary. The ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, and experience in Agile ways of working and best practices are highly desirable. Familiarity with Barclays systems and processes, professional certifications (e.g., Prince2, PMP, Certified Agile, etc.), and strategic thinking in digital and technology will be beneficial. Your role will be based out of our Pune office, and its purpose is to enable the success of senior executives by helping navigate complex challenges, make informed decisions, and deliver against their strategic objectives. Your accountabilities will include providing strategic support to senior executives, managing colleague engagement planning, overseeing key projects and strategic initiatives, improving operational efficiency, developing performance reporting for key metrics, supporting appropriate resourcing across the business/function, risk and control oversight, and implementation of a robust governance framework. As a Vice President, you will be expected to contribute or set strategy, drive requirements, make recommendations for change, manage resources, budgets, and policies, deliver continuous improvements, and demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. You will advise key stakeholders, manage and mitigate risks, demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk, collaborate with other areas of work, and create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought. All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.,