Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Barclays Investment Bank is seeking a Finance Data Analysis AVP to enable data-driven strategic and operational decision making. The role involves extracting actionable insights from large datasets and performing advanced analytics to improve financial processes and reporting.
Responsibilities
- Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification, documenting data sources, methodologies, and quality findings with recommendations for improvement
- Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing
- Apply advanced analytical techniques to large datasets to uncover trends and correlations, develop validated logical data models, and translate insights into actionable business recommendations that drive operational and process improvements, leveraging machine learning/AI
- Through data-driven analysis, translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations, identifying opportunities for operational and process improvements
- Design and create interactive dashboards and visual reports using applicable tools and automate reporting processes for regular and ad-hoc stakeholder needs
- 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
Skills
- Utilize quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to provide financial and data analysis and reporting for Consumer, Risk, Finance, Treasury, and Liquidity (CRFTL) and Management Information (MI)
- Provide frontline support to CRFTL requests of new MI projects, including testing and data verification and data quality issues
- Build and maintain data architectures pipelines that enable the transfer and processing of durable, complete and consistent data
- Perform data extraction, aggregation, analyze, design, implement, and modify business processes to optimize capabilities and improve efficiency to support financial analysis
- Operate production and ad hoc processes to deliver MIS for segment level reporting purposes using SAS, SQL, and Excel
- Integrate reporting from various systems to develop unified and comprehensive views of the business
- Provide and maintain all database documentation including business requirements, workflows, standard procedures, and user guides
- Perform the review and data quality processes that ensure the accuracy of the data reported for financial and regulatory purposes
- Design, develop and implement controls on current DataMart to make sure it operates in control fashion and pass internal and external audit
- Design and implementation of data warehouses and data lakes that manage the appropriate data volumes and velocity and adhere to the required security measures
- Design, development and production of value-add Management Information reports for the US Consumer Banking Chief Financial Officer Management Information (USCB CFO MI)
- Accountable for timely, accurate and credible production of scheduled and adhoc MI reports and analytics, leveraging SAS and Essbase
- Develop and operate processes to deliver MIS for regulatory reporting purposes
- Develop data-mining and mathematical models including business optimization and monitoring procedures that provide key guidance to business stakeholders
Benefits
- May telecommute pursuant to company policies. [Hybrid role]
- This position is eligible for incentives pursuant to Barclays Employee Referral Program.
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