Senior Commercial Analyst

Step into a role as a Senior Commercial Analyst and join our team at Barclays. This exciting opportunity will see you working closely with the business and finance teams to deliver commercial analysis and insights that drive business growth. The primary objective of this position is to ensure the commercial activity linked to day-to-day operations is both profitable and managed. The candidate will support various business functions, providing information, coaching, and introducing new processes, with a principal focus on protecting business profit and reducing unnecessary spend. A successful candidate will provide quality outputs, as required, for both internal and external stakeholders.

Essential Skills

• Develop and deliver financial and commercial reporting for senior management

• Analysing Customer behaviours

• Provide commercial analysis and insights that drive business growth

• Drive business growth through strategic market insights

• Strong understanding of financial and management accounting principles

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

           Desirable skills

• Professional banking or investment qualifications

• Ability to balance commercial, customer and regulatory needs and requirements of a multi-geographic organisation

• Energy and resilience to maintain progress against significant challenges

• Ability to deal with high levels of ambiguity and simplify outputs and recommendations in a complex environment

London

Purpose of the role

To support the bank's decision-making processes by providing timely, accurate, and insightful information through designing, developing, and maintaining management reports and dashboards that effectively communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) and trends across various business units. 

Accountabilities

• Design and development of comprehensive reports and dashboards using various data visualization tools and techniques.
• Design, development and implementation of automated report generation processes for improved efficiency and timeliness.
• Identification and analysis of business requirements to define report content and format.
• Maintenance and updating of existing reports and dashboards to reflect changing business needs, including co-ordination of reporting template releases and related administrative tasks.
• Development of robust processes & controls for collating input data & seeking signoffs as required.
• Engagement with stakeholders as needed to ensure up to date data is incorporated into reporting.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• 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 comprehensive understanding of the organisation 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 the business 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 in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.