Group Strategy AVP

Job Description Summary

As an Assistant Vice President in Barclays’ Group Strategy team, you will play a role in developing and challenging Group and business unit strategies, delivering measurable impact on strategic projects that drive value across the Firm, in a unique role with pathways for growth across the businesses and functions as well as exposure to management. This role offers the opportunity to foster an enterprise-wide mindset and influence the Bank’s future direction.

You will contribute to high-impact projects that help define Barclays’ long-term strategy, working on topics such as growth strategy, portfolio optimisation, market entry, and capital allocation under the direction of a VP or Director. This role provides an opportunity to develop your strategic skillset and build exposure to senior decision-makers.  

Accountabilities:

• Strategic Advisory: Support Group Executives and senior team members in addressing complex business challenges and opportunities, providing fact-based analysis and recommendations that inform key decisions.
• Enterprise-Wide Impact: Contribute to strategies that optimise performance across business units, balancing short-term priorities with long-term growth objectives, with guidance from senior colleagues.
• Problem Solving & Analysis: Structure ambiguous problems, develop hypotheses, and apply advanced analytical techniques - including financial modelling and market analysis - to generate insights.
• Market & Competitive Intelligence: Monitor industry trends, benchmark peers, and synthesise external insights to anticipate shifts and identify opportunities.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build trusted relationships with colleagues across the bank, supporting outcomes through clear communication and compelling storytelling.
• Leadership & Development: Actively participate in team development, seek feedback, and contribute to a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.  

Assistant Vice President Expectations:

• Preferred experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, investor relations or investment banking, with a track record of supporting impactful projects.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure and analyse defined issues and develop practical solutions.
• Solid financial acumen and ability to build and interpret simple financial models.
• Effective communicator within teams and with junior stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work as part of cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrates initiative and eagerness to learn from senior colleagues.

Why Join Us?

You will work on intellectually challenging projects that span geographies and business lines, in an environment that values analytical rigor, creativity, and collaboration.

You may be assessed on 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.

Purpose of the role

To provide independent and balanced advice and counsel to senior stakeholders through problem identification, solving and decision making practices.

Accountabilities

• Provision of strategic advice to Group Executives to support the decision-making process of business challenges and opportunities.
• Development and implementation of strategic advisory incentives to grow and optimise the bank’s operations, through market research and analysis.
• Collaboration with various stakeholder groups to identify the appropriate strategic direction type to meet the needs of Barclays clients and investors.
• Development of financial models to support strategic recommendations and transactions through financial data analysis, financial projects and considering the financial impact of transactions.
• Management of transactions, negotiations, transaction structure development and post-transaction integration.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to maintain client relationships, and develop new relationships to identify opportunities.
• Identification of industry trends, maintain peer benchmarking and developments related to strategic advisory services by attendings conferences, participating in training and conducting market research.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.