Retail Analyst and Assurance

Join Us as a Retail Analyst and Assurance at Barclays

You will play a crucial role in ensuring the integrity of key processes and procedural documentation. Your responsibilities will include developing trend analyses, reporting on findings, and satisfying control testing requirements. Your insights and recommendations will provide valuable management guidance, helping to optimise efficiency and compliance within our retail operations. If you have a keen eye for detail and a passion for process improvement, we would love to hear from you.

Experience Requirements

To be successful as a Retail Analyst and Assurance, you should have experience with:

• Possess strong analytical skills to interpret complex data and derive meaningful insights.
• Effectively translate data findings into actionable recommendations for key leadership positions.
• Have a methodical approach to ensure thoroughness and accuracy in all tasks.

Valued Skills

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey information and collaborate with team members.
• Work well within a team, fostering a cooperative and supportive work environment.
• Demonstrate a sense of responsibility and stewardship, ensuring that resources are used efficiently and ethically.

Key Critical Skills

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as:

• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking and digital and technology
• Job-specific technical skills

Purpose of the Role

To manage and develop capital project proposals and operations aligned to the needs of the bank.

Accountabilities

• Management, development, and execution of building, real estate, and physical asset security projects and proposals, including workspace, engineering, and facility upgrades.
• Management of planning, design, procurement, resourcing, reporting, and construction processes to ensure deliverables are completed on time and within budget.
• Identification of potential risks and issues associated with capital projects and development of risk management strategies to mitigate them by monitoring risk exposure and taking corrective action.
• Management of project budget for real estate and physical security projects by tracking expenses, forecasting costs, and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Management of stakeholder relations including project sponsors, vendors, regulatory agencies, and the facilities management team to align capital project operations with the bank's objectives.
• Identification of opportunities to improve delivery processes for capital projects and implement best practices to enhance project performance.
• Execution of capital projects that meet agreed quality standards and are compliant with relevant laws, regulations, and policies.

Vice President Expectations

• 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 a comprehensive understanding of the organisation's 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 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 to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Barclays Values and Mindset

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.