FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER- ANALYST

As a Barclays Finance Business Partner Analyst, you’ll assist on finance support for Operations on USCB aligned transaction cycles and ensure high standards are met through behaviour & support junior colleagues in their attempts to meet the performance targets. Within this role, you’ll also assume accountability for performance to achieve goals and priorities and to seek to increase all aspects of diversity across the organisation through leadership, thought-provoking of others where necessary, and seeking alternative points of view.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally can request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

•     Supporting the USCB Operations Sr FBP 

•     Lending support in preparing presentations for special topics/ad-hoc analysis 

•     Handling monthly accruals for contact center vendor forecasting productive spend, training and coaching, incentives, and scorecard

•     Utilizing WFMT requirements, performance dashboard, operations training schedules

•     Providing support in month end close by analysing anomalies in the general ledger postings and coordination with accounting team to correct entries

•     Assisting with Finance Business Partner to non-Frontline headcount related Operations areas to prepare forecasts and provide month end commentary and variance analysis

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

•     One to three years’ experience in financial services with degree qualification as a minimum

•     Attention to detail and excellent organisational skills a must, with ability to balance multiple critical requests from various stakeholders with outstanding precision

•     Desire to learn and natural sense of curiosity, with proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint

•     Proven ability to balance commercial, client, and regulatory needs across businesses and geographies

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:

•     Ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with internal stakeholders across all levels and geographies of the organization

•     Exceptional communication skills across a variety of forums and mediums, with proven ability to distil information into key messages and deliver succinctly according to audience

•     Professional accountancy qualification or equivalent relevant experience (ACA/CIMA/CFA)

WHERE WILL YOU BE WORKING?

Barclays' Wilmington campus includes two beautiful buildings located along the historic Wilmington Riverfront. A glance out our windows reveal a scenic look at the Christina River, along with a growing riverfront community of luxury apartments, shops, and restaurants. Additionally, the Wilmington train station is a short walk away making travel from New York and Washington, DC convenient.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.