Assistant Vice President

Embark on a transformative journey as “Assistant Vice President” at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

About Corporate Banking

Corporate Banking provides integrated banking solutions, specialist advice, products and services to businesses of all sizes, multi-national companies, financial institutions and multinationals in non-UK markets.

About Deal Support Team

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Deal Support Team (DST) provides support to the Corporate and Business Banking origination teams through research, analysis and operational support. It provides end to end support in the deal value chain, right from prospect generation to pitchbook and engagement books to support initial client meeting or annual discussions with the existing customers. It also supports Coverage teams with performance management insights, data, reporting and business management support

Overall purpose of role

To be successful in this role as a “Assistant Vice President", you should possess the following skillsets:

• Provide research, data & insights support to UK sales & service team

• Deliver customer insight through identifying and analysing data from multiple sources to improve understanding of our customers, competitors and market place

• Support the onshore Coverage COO / Sales Management team with ad-hoc requests and provide recommendations towards in depth analysis on business improvement initiatives. (e.g. attrition, cost, Income, product penetration etc.)

• Support the agenda of UK Corporate Coverage leadership and strategic decision making for senior stakeholders like Managing Directors, Directors, Sx level, this includes periodic interactions and email exchanges on regular basis, , influencing key decisions through robust analysis and stakeholder engagement.

Data Analysis

• Independently manage data analysis from critical banking systems like, TERADATA, BIW, Salesforce, Cognos Cube, FAME and create actionable intelligence meant for strategic decision making by senior stakeholders like Managing Directors, Directors, Sx level

• Deliver BAU and bespoke data analysis from agreed sources to inform and identify customer segments, wants and needs

• Ability to work independently and proactively on specific projects

Service Delivery

• Drive project delivery, working and coordinating with all the stakeholders

• Deliver insightful analysis and assist in the development of client leave behinds

• Conduct overall financial and market/industry research to contribute business logic to deliverables

• Ensure the highest quality and accuracy standards are achieved in all market and industry research and that it matches the requirements

• Share knowledge and best practice standards in an effort to continuously improve content delivery

• Lead projects successfully, and ensure delivery with no misses

People Management

• Motivate team members and drive excellence

• Conduct performance management and reviews for direct reports, as well contribute and mange performance review

• Identify training and development needs

Quality Management

• Ensure that the highest quality and accuracy standards are achieved in all the deliverables and that it matches the stakeholder’s expectations

• Drive for future quality improvements

• Share knowledge and best practice standards in an effort to continuously improve content delivery and stakeholders summarizing team activities and statistics on driving business success

Communication and Reporting

• Compile accurate and thorough reports measuring overall team output and impact on Data & MI success

• Conduct conference calls and video conferences to provide feedback and updates on progress and results

• Provide periodic reports to stakeholders/SLT summarizing team activities and statistics on driving business success

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

• Liaise with stakeholders to obtain feedback on support levels and quality of output and build improvements into the research

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders across businesses served.

• Work with the functional owners to ensure cohesion between individual and departmental goals.

• Liaise with Barclays Corporate senior management to obtain feedback on support levels and quality of output and build improvements into the research

Some other highly valued skills include:

Technical Skills/Competencies

• Intellectual competencies - business acumen, strong analytical skills, creativity, strategic thinking

• Computer literacy, especially MS Office

• SQL or related analytical coding expertise

• Numerical analysis

• Business awareness

• Comprehensive Communication skills

• Strong people management and motivation skills

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Market research expertise, knowledge and understanding of market, industry and impact of macro-economic indicators

• Ability to translate written instructions into action items

• Aptitude to work in a variable business environment, periodically requiring tight deadlines and aggressive turn-around times

• Relational database understanding and SQL interactive programming

• Strong Knowledge of the Barclays Information Warehouse

• Strong Knowledge of Salesforce.com and company house information such as OneSource, Fame and Orbis

• Report writing skills

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Preferably a Post Graduate, or MBA, or MBA equivalent

• Experience of using Excel, PowerPoint, SQL and working with large data sets

• Experience with scripting languages VBA, Python etc. and data visualization software such as Tableau

• Ability to analyse and interpret complex data from multiple sources, using a variety of analytical techniques. Ability to drill down to identify trends, commonalities and exceptions in significant quantities of data

• Relevant experience of working in a financial services institution preferred

• Aptitude to work in a variable business environment, periodically requiring tight deadlines and aggressive turn-around times

• Once shown a technique, able to adapt the technique for related tasks. Instinctively wants to explore new data sources and discover more efficient processes

• Flexible to work in shifts, particularly

You may be assessed on the 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.

This role is based in our Gurugram office.

Purpose of the role

To support coverage to grow income for both new and existing customers by providing marketing leading tools, a world class learning & development programme as well as analytical support in terms of sales management tools to contribute to the overall success of UKC. 

Accountabilities

• Design, execution and embedding of an ongoing roadmap to provides market leading Tools for RDs and Coverage.

• Design, execution and embedding of an ongoing training plan to provide ‘World Class Learning’.

• Support the delivery of market leading client collateral to provide a competitive advantage to RDs.   .

• Collaboration with Product to develop market leading industry/segment focused products and multi product solutions and Develop and drive initiatives.

• Development of the data capability across UK Corporate to enable delivery of client insights to drive acquisitions and increase wallet share.

• Maximise the positive impact of UCRM and Salesforce as a tool for Corporate Banking.

• Implementation of agreed minimum standards and best practices across UK Corporate  and support this with sales management tools to drive overall success.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.

• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes

• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.

• 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.