Retail Banking Data & Analytics Graduate Programme 2025 London

Graduate Programme Overview
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.

1-2 year targeted, fast-track program focused on developing specialist technical expertise

Why the Advanced Analytics Graduate programme?
As an Advanced Analytics Analyst, we’ll help you develop specialist advanced analytics expertise. We’ll help you gain technical skills, including programming, modelling and visualising data using sophisticated market-leading platforms and tools. We’ll also support you to develop important consulting skills, such as understanding and solving problems, turning your insights into actions, and presenting data-driven findings to stakeholders.

You’ll be responsible for delivering hypothesis-driven analysis on a range of data sources across key business issues relating to Barclays’ customers, products and channels.

You’ll also be using advanced analytics to deliver analytical ‘deep dives’ and create data assets that drive the performance of the bank, enabling smarter, faster, and more proactive decision making across Barclays.

This is a challenging and rewarding opportunity to become an expert in Data and Analytics in a multi-award-winning team, shaping what the best customer experiences will look like for years to come.

Expect to be right where the action is. You’ll start with training; after which you’ll join your team. The challenges you take on might include:
•Analytics to drive Pricing decisions across our all products
•Targeting and audience selection to drive customer engagement
•Building Customer segmentations to better understand our customers’ needs
•Affordability and Risk modelling for responsible lending decisions

Retail Banking at Barclays
Join the team that designs and drives brilliant customer experience across Barclays. It’s where we delve for deep understanding of our customers’ needs and ambitions. It’s where we dream up just the right products to help them along the way. It’s where we craft truly connected customer journeys, ensuring great interactions at every single touchpoint. And it’s where we keep our eyes on the future, shaping what the best customer experiences will look like for years to come.

What we're looking for
To be considered for this programme, you must be motivated and curious with a degree or expected degree – in any area.
Ideally, you would have a keen interest in analytics, data business and finance, and be passionate about relationship building as well as being a problem solver.

Working in London
If you love the buzz of city life, our global HQ is the place to be. Our London hub is in Canary Wharf, at the heart of London’s financial district. Here, you won’t just be perfectly placed to explore the nation’s capital; you’ll be in a place where you can explore all the many functions and opportunities of a global financial giant. And if you’re technically minded, you’ll get more from your tech career by collaborating with other brilliant minds on game-changing innovations that are redefining the future of finance.

It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Purpose of the role
To participate in the day-to-day activities of the retail banking and data analytics division providing insights and expertise that help senior colleagues make informed decisions, develop new products and services, and identify new market opportunities.

Accountabilities
· Execution of small research projects, research to support strategic decision making, preparation of presentations and reports to communicate research findings, collaboration with senior management to implement research findings for retail banking data and analytics.
· Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
· Participation in training and development programs to enhance skills and knowledge.
· Identification of opportunities, development of business cases, management of the deployment and launch of new products and services for retail banking data and analytics.
· Management of client relationships and provision of customer service support to clients and customers, under steadily decreasing supervision, responding to questions about products and services, processing of transactions.
· Management of the development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support in decision making for retail banking data and analytics.
· Training and mentoring of junior colleagues.

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, regulation, 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 contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside 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.