Portfolio Management Lead Analyst

Portfolio Management Lead Analyst
 
As a Barclays Portfolio Management Lead Analyst within Strategic Analytics you will support Barclays UK Cards team in a challenging and varied role which will include shaping and executing a data exploration program, conducting analysis to generate insights and identify commercial opportunities, overseeing model governance for UK Cards, working with external suppliers and reviewing industry benchmarking analysis to identify strategic opportunities
 
About us:
This role is part of the Strategic Analytics team that shapes UK Cards strategy. With a portfolio in excess of £15bn and well over a million new applicants each year, information and analytics is critical to our decision making, and this role will require strong conceptual thinking and analytical ability. We investigate, model and optimise across the customer lifecycle, from new customer acquisition to existing account management, dealing with key levers of value such as pricing, promotional offers, channel optimization and interfacing with credit strategy. Underlying all of this is our ability to understand and engage with our customers
 
As a Lead Analyst, your main responsibilities will involve: 
• Identifying new external data sources that will aid the business in achieving its commercial goals
• Analysing the expected benefit that the data could deliver making recommendations on the data sources that should be purchased
• Ensuring UK Cards adheres to the model governance process through timely identification and validation of models
• Implementing and reviewing regular monitoring for all models owned by UK Cards to ensure model performance remains at an acceptable level
• Identifying commercial opportunities to grow revenues based on analysis, including industry reviews
• Providing appropriate challenge to investment proposals to ensure a robust review process
 
As a Lead Analyst, your skills and qualifications will include:
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Advanced understanding of SAS, SQL and Excel
• Strong commercial / business acumen
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written) with the ability to translate data findings into business insight
• Proven examples of when problem-solving and decision-making skills have come to fruition.
 
The Benefits:   
Our customers deserve the best. The same goes for our people. That’s why at Barclays you’ll receive a range of benefits including a competitive salary, flexible hours and all the tools, technology and support to help you become the very best you can be.
 
Our Culture:
Everything we do is shaped by the five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The values inform the foundations of our relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how we measure and reward the performance of our employees. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.
 
Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.
 
Diversity:
At Barclays, we recruit based on merit and are committed to promoting diversity throughout our organisation.
  
Ready to apply?
 
There are up to five stages to our application process:
1. Application: On your application we’ll ask for information like your contact details, education and work experience. You’ll also be required to upload a CV, so it’s a good idea to have it ready.
2. Online Assessment: We’ll then ask you to complete an online assessment exercise which we will send to you via email. Our assessments are carefully designed to measure the skills and capabilities necessary to be successful in our roles, but they’ll also provide you with some insight into what our roles entail.
3. Application Review: We will review your application along with your responses to the online assessment exercise. Depending on the type of role you are applying for, we may contact you to arrange a brief telephone interview to discuss your experience in more detail.
4. Interview: If your application is progressed, we’ll invite you to attend a face-to-face interview. We want you to be free to choose an interview time that suits you, so we’ll provide some options and ask you to select your preferred timeslot.
5. Outcome: We will keep you updated throughout the process. If you attend an interview, we’ll be in touch within five working days of all interviews being completed to advise you of the outcome.
 
Visit our website for tips and advice on each stage www.jobs.barclays.co.uk/advice or click below to apply now.
 
We encourage applicants to apply as early as possible in the recruitment period. Barclays recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert during the recruitment process.

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