Senior Analyst - Risk Strategy - BFSI

About Risk :

The Risk Intent is to provide world class risk management, supporting sustainable growth. Our Intent is underpinned by the following three strategic priorities for 2016:

- Protect Barclays from a volatile and weak external environment by managing risk appetite and mandate and scales at appropriate levels, and ensuring that activity across products and geographies takes into account external developments

- Streamline our risk approval and oversight processes by understanding our processes back to front, reducing delivery time and automating where possible

- Improve our controls through continued focus on mode

Overall purpose of role

The purpose of the role would be to support Impairment & Capital Forecasting and Stress testing process for BUK portfolios through portfolio specific analytics, model development, variance analysis, reconciliations and communications in relevant forums

Key Accountabilities :

- Manage impairment forecasting and stress testing models to support submissions under key Barclays internal and regulatory exercises

- Work closely with CRO & CFO to agree relevant business inputs for the forecasts/stress tests

- Present and communicate results to Senior Management and drive stakeholder discussions

- Ensure compliance and appropriate governance is followed in producing results and evidence stored.

- Transform high-level requests into focussed and specific analysis

- Synthesise analysis results to inform business issues

- Extend/ modify analysis based on observations/ knowledge of data and limitations, and implications of results

- Contribute to business development activities

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

- Work with CRO, CFO, Collection, Risk Centre, Operations and other relevant teams.

Decision-making and Problem Solving :

- Identify new opportunities for enhancing/ streamlining services

- Formulate opportunities into proposals, share with the manager and implement

- Work effectively with peers and management team to achieve shared business objectives

- Contribute to the wider colleague agenda of the team

Risk and Control Objective :

All Barclays colleagues have to ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards

Person Specification :

Essential :

- A degree in an analytical/business related discipline

- Ability to generate insights from data, assess the commercial / financial impact and recommend action

- Experience analysing programmes through the lens of risk management

- Understanding of statistical methods to enable appropriate interpretation of results

- Comprehensive knowledge and effective use of analytical tools including SQL and SAS.

- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint

- Familiarity with risk reporting and risk management models.

- Conceptual thinking - find innovative ways to solve analytical problems

- Ability to deliver accurate results within tight deadlines

- Team work - Commitment and ability to work with cross-functional teams

- Strong interpersonal skills

- Oral and written communication skills with ability to translate insight into a coherent story

Preferred:

- Post-graduate degree

- Extensive experience analysing programmes through the lens of Card P&L and customer metrics.

- Familiarity with segmentation tools and strategies.

- Industry knowledge (ideally experience with major international financial services firm)

Effective stakeholder management skills