Join Barclays as a Senior Data & Insights Analyst and play a key role in shaping how Acquiring Operations uses data to improve performance, efficiency and customer outcomes.
As a member of Data, Insights & Workforce Management team, you will lead the delivery of trusted reporting, analytics and insight that supports operational decision-making, drives strategic change and helps leaders identify risks and opportunities.
This is an opportunity to move beyond traditional reporting and become a trusted analytical partner to senior stakeholders. You will transform complex data into meaningful insight, influence business decisions, and help drive the future direction of data, automation and AI-enabled analytics across Acquiring Operations.
Working across operational, strategic and transformational priorities, you will combine technical expertise, commercial understanding and analytical thinking to improve customer outcomes, optimise operational performance and deliver measurable business impact.
To be successful as a Senior Data & Insights Analyst, you should have experience with:
- Advanced SQL skills, with the ability to write, optimise and maintain complex queries to extract, transform and analyse data from multiple sources.
- Proven experience designing, developing and maintaining Tableau dashboards and visualisations that provide clear, actionable insight to support business and operational decision-making.
- Considerable analytical capability, with experience handling large and complex datasets and translating ambiguous business problems into clear analytical approaches, actionable insight and business recommendations.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Proven experience using AI tools and emerging technologies to enhance reporting, data analysis, coding efficiency and insight generation.
- Experience developing automated reporting solutions, data pipelines and analytical processes using Python or similar technologies.
- Understanding of forecasting, capacity planning, demand analysis and workforce management principles, and how these support operational performance and decision-making.
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 will be based in Northampton.
Purpose of the role
To enable data-driven strategic and operational decision making through extracting actionable insights from large datasets, performing statistical and advanced analytics to uncover trends and patterns, and presenting findings through clear visualisations and reports.
Accountabilities
- 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.
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.
