Human Resources Analyst Graduate Programme 2025 London

Human Resources Graduate Programme

If you're a recent graduate or soon-to-be graduate, join us and unlock a world of carefully curated experiences, knowledge, and connections to shape your career. Along the way, you can expect all the training and support you need to make your mark on the world. Put simply, we’ll empower you to help determine how we do things and where we go next. Our graduates are a vital part of our success, and we welcome applications from people from all walks of life. Whoever you are and wherever you want to join us, if you’re curious, creative, and ambitious, this is a world in which you can truly belong.

2-year rotational programme designed to give you depth and breadth of experience.

Why the Human Resources Graduate Programme?

We may work with numbers, but at our core, Barclays is a people-based business. Our Human Resources (HR) teams are critical to ensuring the Group’s overall success by attracting, retaining, and developing the right people. This team acts as trusted advisors, strategic partners, and innovative solution finders. Sound like the place for you? Join us as an analyst.

The Chance to Make an Impact

You’ll start out with several weeks of intense training, covering product and business knowledge as well as essential skills you’ll need for a successful start. Then you’ll begin the first of four, six-month-long rotations, exposing you to a variety of HR areas. Along the way, you’ll build excellent foundational knowledge while getting to know our business and our people.

During this programme, you’ll have the chance to rotate across our HR business partner teams, where you’ll be supporting a specific business on both day-to-day and strategic issues, and across our Centers of Excellence, where you’ll develop expertise in a particular HR function such as Reward & Performance, Employee Relations, or Learning, Leadership & Talent. Depending on your rotation assignment, you may:

• Assist in the development, planning, and execution of the graduate Initial Training Programme or graduate placement process
• Investigate employee relations issues
• Compile and analyze data to determine the impact of workforce changes
• Support employees and managers through our new promotion process
• Conduct exit interviews with employees and compile feedback to identify trends
• Help deliver diversity training for our managers.

This is the team that makes sure all our 100,000 employees grow, develop, and get the most from their careers. Work here, and you'll be pivotal to our performance, whether you're recruiting top talent, promoting an inclusive culture, or making sure our rewards are fair, imaginative, and motivational. You'll also have opportunities to learn from experts, work across geographic and divisional boundaries, and potentially contribute to policies that could affect not just our business but the industry as a whole.

What We Are Looking For

To be considered for this programme, you must be motivated with a strong degree or expected degree – in any area.

Ideally, you would also have:

• Problem-solving skills and a passion for relationship building.

Purpose of the Role

To support the day-to-day operations of the human resources division through the provision of insights and expertise that help more senior colleagues make informed decisions. Also, support the development of new products and services in addition to the identification of new market opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Execution of small research projects to support strategic decision-making, preparation of presentations and reports to communicate research findings, collaboration with relevant leaders to implement research findings.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
• Participation in training and development programs to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Participation in the identification of opportunities, development of business cases, and the deployment and launch of new products and services for human resources.
• Management of client relationships and provision of customer service support to clients and customers responding to questions about products and services, processing of transactions, and resolution of customer complaints.
• Management of the development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support decision-making for human resources.
• Development of HR insights, the colleague journeys the function is responsible for, and HR services and measures whilst building an understanding of Barclays and its businesses.

Analyst Expectations

• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision-making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisation’s products, services, and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organisation.

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.