Strategy and Execution Support Officer

Barclays; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Strategy and Execution Support Officer based in London. You will provide independent, balanced guidance to senior stakeholders, supporting problem solving and decision making, and produce high‑quality Board and ELT materials.

The role emphasizes governance, risk awareness, and delivering concise, accurate strategic outputs across multiple workstreams within a fast‑paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience developing Board/ELT-level materials with structure and accuracy.
• Ensure consistency and traceability across reporting for multiple initiatives.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across risk, finance, operations, technology and business teams.
• Advanced experience in executive reporting, portfolio management, and/or strategy consulting in complex transformations.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advice to Group Executives to support decision making.
• Develop and implement strategic advisory incentives to grow and optimise operations.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to identify strategic direction to meet client/investor needs.
• Develop financial models to support recommendations and transactions.
• Manage transactions, negotiations, structure development and post‑transaction integration.
• Maintain client relationships and identify new opportunities.
• Identify industry trends and benchmark against peers through research and conferences.

Skills

Board/ELT materials development

Reporting consistency & traceability

Stakeholder collaboration across risk,

Executive reporting

Portfolio management

Strategy consulting (transformation)

Job description

Join our team as an Strategy and Execution Support Officer. In this role, you will provide independent, balanced advice and guidance to senior stakeholders, supporting problem identification, solution development, and effective decision‑making. You will also be responsible for producing high-quality Board and Executive Leadership Team (ELT) materials.
To be successful as a Strategy and Execution Support Officer, you should have experience with:

• A proven ability to develop Board / ELT-level materials, with ample attention to structure, clarity, conciseness, and accuracy.
• Ensuring consistency and traceability across reporting for multiple initiatives, maintaining aligned messaging, clear audit trails, and effective version control.
• Collaborating with senior stakeholders across functions (including risk, finance, operations, technology, and business teams), enabling timely, high-quality contributions and constructive challenge where appropriate.

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• The ability to work effectively in fast-paced, time-sensitive environments, balancing competing priorities while maintaining high-quality outputs and sound judgement on risks, issues, and decisions.
• A demonstrated track record of strengthening governance practices, ensuring consistency, timeliness, and quality across multiple workstreams.
• Advanced experience in executive reporting, portfolio management, and/or strategy consulting, ideally within complex transformation environments.

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 London.

Purpose of the role

To provide independent and balanced advice and counsel to senior stakeholders through problem identification, solving and decision making practices.

Accountabilities

• Provision of strategic advice to Group Executives to support the decision‑making process of business challenges and opportunities.
• Development and implementation of strategic advisory incentives to grow and optimise the bank’s operations, through market research and analysis.
• Collaboration with various stakeholder groups to identify the appropriate strategic direction type to meet the needs of Barclays clients and investors.
• Development of financial models to support strategic recommendations and transactions through financial data analysis, financial projects and considering the financial impact of transactions.
• Management of transactions, negotiations, transaction structure development and post‑transaction integration.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to maintain client relationships, and develop new relationships to identify opportunities.
• Identification of industry trends, maintain peer benchmarking and developments related to strategic advisory services by attendings conferences, participating in training and conducting market research.

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.