Financial Reporting, Policy, and Technical Accounting Lead - BPL

As a Financial Reporting, Policy & Technical Accounting Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality external financial reporting, including statutory and group accounts. You'll lead key reporting and technical accounting activities, helping to enhance external reporting processes and ensuring outputs are accurate, timely and fully compliant with applicable accounting standards.

Working closely with the Head of Financial Reporting, Policy & Technical Accounting and the Risk team, you'll help ensure that financial reporting appropriately reflects the firm's risk profile, with clear alignment between financial and risk disclosures. You'll support the development and maintenance of accounting policies, acting as a technical subject matter expert on accounting matters, including debt, complex transactions and other judgemental areas.

You'll provide guidance and insight to stakeholders across the business, supporting the interpretation and application of accounting standards and helping drive consistent accounting practices across the organisation. This is a critical role where your technical expertise and ability to translate complex accounting issues into clear and practical solutions will help underpin the integrity of the firm's financial reporting processes.

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 a Financial Reporting, Policy & Technical Accounting VP, you should be able to demonstrate: Qualified accountant (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent), with experience in technical accounting and financial reporting Proven experience owning technical accounting processes, including multi‑entity statutory reporting within a complex organisation FinTech or EMI experience is desirable, with an understanding of electronic money regulations and reporting environments 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 manage the financial operations of the organisation, ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of financial reporting. Accountabilities Management of the preparation and presentation of accurate and timely financial statements, and other accounting records in accordance with the relevant accounting standards, rules and regulations. Support in identification, assessment, and mitigation of financial risks, and report on these financial risks to senior colleagues.

Development and maintenance of a robust system of internal controls to saf