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Cost Transformation - Senior Manager

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As a Senior Manager in Cost Transformation, you’ll lead initiatives to identify and agree cost-saving opportunities across Barclays UK, helping the bank achieve its financial objectives, address operational challenges, and deliver enhanced customer experience. Acting as an internal consultant, you’ll work with small, focused teams to analyse specific areas of the business, uncover opportunities for efficiency, and make recommendations that reduce costs or enhance customer experience. You’ll take ownership of programmes and workstreams, from opportunity identification all the way to ensuring benefits is included in the financial plans. Your role will involve engaging with stakeholders, presenting findings, and ensuring improvements are implemented effectively. This is a high-impact position where your ability to combine strategic thinking with business partnering which will be key to shaping the bank’s cost transformation agenda and delivering sustainable change.

Job Responsibility:

  • Lead initiatives to identify and agree cost-saving opportunities across Barclays UK
  • Act as an internal consultant
  • Work with small, focused teams to analyse specific areas of the business, uncover opportunities for efficiency, and make recommendations
  • Take ownership of programmes and workstreams, from opportunity identification to ensuring benefits are included in financial plans
  • Engage with stakeholders, present findings, and ensure improvements are implemented effectively
  • Develop business capabilities for Finance through key stages of functional design, data, end-to-end-process and controls, delivery, and functional testing
  • Functional Design: leveraging best practice concepts, support options analysis and recommendations
  • Data Analysis/Modelling/Governance: design conceptual data model and governance requirements
  • End-to-End Process & Controls: development of target process and controls design/documentation and operational runbooks
  • Delivery/Implementation Support: update design/functional requirements, resolve RAIDS, project management for change programmes
  • Functional Testing: develop scripts and data to test alignment to requirement definitions

Requirements:

  • Confident interpreting operational and financial data, defining analysis and metrics
  • Proven experience in strategy or transformation roles
  • Excellent senior stakeholder engagement skills
  • Professional financial qualification (e.g., ACA, CFA, ACCA)
  • Experience in cost optimisation or operational improvement projects

Nice to have:

  • Professional financial qualification (e.g., ACA, CFA, ACCA)
  • Experience in cost optimisation or operational improvement projects
What we offer:
  • Structured hybrid working
  • Wellness Suite including gym and exercise studios
  • personal training sessions and massage therapy
  • Cycle hire and parking areas
  • showering and changing facilities
  • CoSpace drop-in co-working space

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
April 10, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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