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Debit Card Fraud Strategy

Northampton, United Kingdom; London, United Kingdom

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Date live: 26/02/2026

Business Area: Product Operations and Control

Area of Expertise: Risk and Quantitative Analytics

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000052692

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Barclays Risk

In Risk Barclays develops, recommends, and implements controls and cost-effective approaches to minimise Barclay's risks, identifies and analyses potential sources of loss to minimise risk and estimate the potential financial consequences of an occurring loss.

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Exciting opportunity at Barclays! Join us as an Adaptive Planning Specialist VP, where you’ll play a pivotal role in transforming our planning capabilities through Workday Adaptive Planning, enabling smarter, faster, and more agile financial insights across the business. This is your opportunity to lead innovation at scale, influence enterprise-wide processes, and work with a dynamic team that values your expertise.

If you're passionate about data-driven strategy and want to make a tangible impact, this is the role for you.

To be successful as an Adaptive Planning Specialist VP, you should have experience with:

  • Workday Adaptive Planning: Proven background as an Analyst or Consultant with hands-on configuration and deployment experience.

  • Financial Modelling & Planning Processes: Understanding of how planning drives business performance.

  • Excel & Data Structures: Strong Excel skills and comfort working with complex data environments.

  • Workforce management: demonstrate WFM or workforce management experience

Some other highly valued skills may include:

  • Workday Core HCM and/or Finance Modules: Experience here is a strong advantage.

  • Stakeholder Management: Confidence in working cross-functionally and managing diverse relationships.

  • Analytical & Communication Skills: Ability to solve problems creatively and communicate insights clearly.

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

Locations: London or Glasgow

Purpose of the role

To manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements. 

Accountabilities

  • Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.
  • Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
  • Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
  • Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
  • Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
  • Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.

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.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.

To find out more about Barclays' strategy please click here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Barclays is required by law to confirm that you have the Legal Right to Work in any role that you apply for. If you currently hold a work visa sponsored by Barclays, or you would require sponsorship from Barclays, you must declare this as part of your application. Sponsored visas are role and entity specific and any changes must be reviewed. It is important that you ensure you are working on the correct visa at all times. Failure to accurately disclose your visa status or Legal Right to Work may result in your application or any employment offer being withdrawn at any time.

This is Barclays Northampton

Northampton is one of our most important UK centres. We’re home to all card and payment services across the Barclays business; we’re also home to Barclaycard. This is a vast operation, with a huge influence and impact on the financial services industry and on the lives of millions of British people.

Unique initiatives to enhance your wellbeing like our colleague allotment, helping to build community through getting closer to nature.

You can experience a wealth of diverse and surprising career paths right here in Northampton, across Barclays UK or even globally.

Our building is environmentally friendly and people-friendly too, with excellent facilities designed to make work a pleasure.

Northampton is the perfect blend of town and country, a growing and thriving centre for business, and a wonderful place to live and work.

This is Barclays Northampton

Northampton is one of our most important UK centres. We’re home to all card and payment services across the Barclays business; we’re also home to Barclaycard. This is a vast operation, with a huge influence and impact on the financial services industry and on the lives of millions of British people.

Focus on wellbeing

Unique initiatives to enhance your wellbeing like our colleague allotment, helping to build community through getting closer to nature.

Big opportunities

You can experience a wealth of diverse and surprising career paths right here in Northampton, across Barclays UK or even globally.

The workplace of the future

Our building is environmentally friendly and people-friendly too, with excellent facilities designed to make work a pleasure.

Discover Northampton

Northampton is the perfect blend of town and country, a growing and thriving centre for business, and a wonderful place to live and work.

Multicultural ERGs at Barclays

Be you. Be valued. Belong.

We celebrate the unique perspectives and experiences each individual brings, believing our differences make us stronger and drive success.

You can learn more about our commitment to our colleague on our Inclusion and Opportunities page.

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Application Process

Your application

We’ll ask for information about you, your CV and cover letter.

1

Your assessment

Covering your behaviours and ability at work.

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Your interview

Exploring your past experiences and skills.

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Next step

We’ll request additional information so that you can complete our screening process

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Working flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. If you'd like to explore flexible working arrangements, please discuss this with the hiring manager. Your request will be reviewed in-line with the requirements of the role/business needs of the team.

Hybrid working

We have a structured approach to hybrid working, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days, as set by the business area. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Barclays is built on an international scale.

Our geographic reach, our wide variety of functions, businesses, roles and locations reflect the rich diversity of our worldwide customer base. All of which means we offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience.
And the chance to learn from a globally diverse mix of colleagues, including some of the very best minds in banking, finance, technology and business. Throughout, we’ll encourage you to embrace mobility, exploring every part of our operations as you build your career.

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