# Strategic Transactions and Initiatives Manager **Company**: Barclays **Location**: Wilmington, 125 South West Street **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://barclays.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site_Barclays/job/Wilmington-125-South-West-Street/Corporate-Development-Director--Risk-Transfer-_JR-0000136364?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b6c2898a-f7f ## Description We are seeking a Strategic Transactions and Initiatives Manager to evaluate, structure, and execute strategic transactions and initiatives that support Barclays US Consumer Bank's growth, risk management, portfolio optimization, capital efficiency, and financial objectives. The role combines rigorous financial analysis, commercial judgment, and cross-functional leadership to support senior management decision-making across risk transfer, portfolio transactions, strategic partnerships, and other corporate development activities. Key responsibilities: - Lead the evaluation and execution of risk transfer, portfolio optimization, strategic partnership, and other corporate development initiatives. - Develop financial models, valuation analyses, business cases, and strategic assessments to evaluate transaction economics, risks, and alternatives. - Support the structuring and negotiation of transactions, including commercial terms, risk allocation, financial considerations, and execution requirements. - Lead due diligence and coordinate transaction execution across Finance, Treasury, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Tax, Operations, and relevant business teams. - Assess portfolio performance, credit exposure, funding implications, and risk-adjusted returns, and support the analysis of capital-related considerations. - Quantify the capital impact of transactions and initiatives, including risk-weighted asset (RWA), CET1, and leverage effects, capital relief, return on capital, and capital efficiency. - Evaluate and compare capital-optimization alternatives, such as significant risk transfer, portfolio sales, forward-flow, and partnership structures. - Evaluate market conditions, investor appetite, competitor activity, and relevant regulatory developments affecting potential transactions and strategic initiatives. - Prepare clear, concise, and defensible recommendations, governance materials, and executive presentations for senior management and relevant approval forums. - Manage day-to-day interactions with financial institutions, investors, strategic partners, advisors, consultants, and other external counterparties throughout transaction evaluation and execution. - Identify material transaction risks, dependencies, and execution issues, working with relevant stakeholders to develop mitigation plans and escalate matters as appropriate. - Monitor approved transactions and strategic initiatives through implementation, including key milestones, financial outcomes, and the resolution of execution issues. - Oversee post-execution management and life-cycle events for live risk transfer transactions. - Lead engagements with credit rating agencies, law firms, and other advisors on new risk transfer transactions. - Build relationships with stakeholders across Barclays to identify portfolios of assets suitable for risk transfer. - Ensure all business activities are carried out in compliance with firm-wide and business-specific conduct, risk, and control limits and expectations. - Manage multiple complex and time-sensitive workstreams concurrently, ensuring effective prioritization, stakeholder communication, and delivery. - Guide and support less-experienced colleagues, promoting high standards of financial analysis, commercial judgment, and execution discipline. The ideal candidate will have: - A Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Administration, Mathematics, Engineering, or another relevant quantitative discipline. - An MBA, CFA, CPA, or another relevant advanced degree or professional designation preferred. - Significant relevant experience in corporate development, investment banking, strategic finance, structured finance, capital markets, portfolio management, risk transfer, mergers and acquisitions, or a related financial-services discipline. - Demonstrated experience evaluating and executing complex strategic transactions, partnership arrangements, portfolio acquisitions or divestitures, risk transfer transactions, or comparable corporate development initiatives. - Experience leading or supporting structured transactions involving asset sales, portfolio transfers, strategic partnership arrangements, securitizations, risk transfer structures, or other complex financial transactions. - Advanced financial modeling, valuation, and transaction-analysis skills. - Strong understanding of consumer banking products, credit portfolios, partnership economics, funding and capital considerations, and risk-adjusted return frameworks. - Knowledge of transaction structuring, due diligence, commercial negotiation, and execution processes. - Working knowledge of regulatory capital frameworks and metrics. - Ability to identify and assess strategic, financial, credit, operational, legal, regulatory, and reputational risks associated with complex transactions and business initiatives. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. ## Skills ### Required - financial analysis - commercial judgment - cross-functional leadership - risk transfer - portfolio transactions - strategic partnerships ### Nice to have - MBA - CFA - CPA --- Source: [Apply at barclays.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com](https://barclays.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External_Career_Site_Barclays/job/Wilmington-125-South-West-Street/Corporate-Development-Director--Risk-Transfer-_JR-0000136364?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)