Senior Commercial Analyst

Barclays; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Barclays as a Senior Commercial Analyst, where you'll provide critical commercial analysis and insights to drive business growth. This role involves designing management reports and dashboards, ensuring profitable operations, and collaborating across departments to align with business strategies. Ideal candidates will demonstrate strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of financial principles.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of financial and management accounting principles.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to balance commercial, customer, and regulatory needs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver commercial analysis and insights that drive business growth.
• Design and develop reports and dashboards using data visualization tools.
• Support decision-making with timely, accurate information.

Skills

Financial and commercial reporting

Customer behavior analysis

Commercial analysis

Strategic market insights

Financial and management accounting principles

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Education

Professional banking or investment qualifications

Job description

Step into a role as a Senior Commercial Analyst and join our team at Barclays. This exciting opportunity involves working closely with the business and finance teams to deliver commercial analysis and insights that drive business growth.

Primary Objective: Ensure that the commercial activities linked to day-to-day operations are profitable and well-managed. Support various business functions by providing information, coaching, and introducing new processes, with a focus on protecting profit and reducing unnecessary spend. Deliver quality outputs for internal and external stakeholders as required.

Essential Skills

• Develop and deliver financial and commercial reporting for senior management
• Analyze customer behaviors
• Provide commercial analysis and insights that drive business growth
• Drive business growth through strategic market insights
• Strong understanding of financial and management accounting principles
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Desirable Skills

• Professional banking or investment qualifications
• Ability to balance commercial, customer, and regulatory needs across multiple geographies
• Energy and resilience to overcome significant challenges
• Ability to handle ambiguity and simplify complex outputs and recommendations

Location: London

Purpose of the Role

Support decision-making by providing timely, accurate, and insightful information through designing, developing, and maintaining management reports and dashboards that communicate key performance indicators (KPIs) and trends across business units.

Accountabilities

• Design and develop reports and dashboards using data visualization tools
• Create automated report generation processes for efficiency
• Analyze business requirements to define report content and format
• Maintain and update existing reports and dashboards as needed
• Develop robust processes and controls for data collection and sign-offs
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure data accuracy in reporting

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to strategy, requirements gathering, and recommend changes; manage resources, budgets, and policies; and drive continuous improvement.
• If managing a team, define roles, plan for future needs, counsel employees, and lead specialists to influence operations, aligning with strategic and tactical priorities.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen, Energize, Align, Develop (LEAD).
• For individual contributors, serve as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead projects, and mentor less experienced staff.
• Advise stakeholders on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignment.
• Manage risks and ensure strong controls and governance.
• Collaborate across departments to stay aligned with business strategies.
• Use sophisticated analytical thinking to develop innovative solutions and assess complex alternatives.
• Build trusting relationships with stakeholders to achieve business objectives through influence and negotiation.

All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays' Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.