Please note this is a job posting for our 2024 Internship cohort, please do not apply to this position if you have not recently completed an Internship with Barclays. For those interested in our 2025 internship or graduate opportunities, those applications will be opening soon.

Graduate Program Overview

If you're a recent graduate or soon-to-be graduate join us and unlock a world of carefully curated experiences, knowledge, and connections to shape your career. Along the way, you can expect all the training and support you need to make your mark on the world. Put simply, we’ll empower you to help determine how we do things and where we go next. Our graduates are a vital part of our success, and we welcome applications from people from all walks of life. Whoever you are and wherever you want to join us, if you’re curious, creative, and ambitious, this is a world in which you can truly belong.

Why the Consumer Banking Graduate program?

Our US Consumer Bank business is a partner-centric bank, creating opportunities for growth, partnering with some of America’s best brands such as American Airlines, Gap, and JetBlue to provide credit cards, loans, and deposit products. Today, we’re one of the top ten credit card issuers in the US. We do all of this by focusing on delivering truly great experiences, with a human touch.

Joining Barclays US Consumer Bank is a fantastic opportunity to work within a diverse, growing, and innovative business. You’ll spend your time on strategy, digital, product and analytics, encompassing how we work with clients and consumers.

As an analyst with our Data and Analytics team, you’ll join the team responsible for all analytical support for Credit and Marketing initiative strategies. Data and Analytics champions the company’s ambitious growth agenda by utilizing data and advanced analytics and converting it into actionable energy.

2-year rotational program designed to give you depth and breadth of experience

Consumer Banking at Barclays

Barclays US Consumer Bank is one of the fastest-growing top 10 credit card issuers and online banks in the United States. We create customized, co-branded credit card programs for some of the country's most successful travel, entertainment, retail, and affinity institutions. We enable clients and consumers to make payments and spend with credit cards. Our business powers merchants to take payments, manage their own spend and provide point of sale finance to their customers. We do all of this by creating innovative solutions that meet the ever-evolving needs of our clients and the digital world.

Who we're looking for

To be considered for this program, you must:

Be an undergraduate student with an anticipated graduation date between December 2023 - June 2024, a degree or expected degree in an analytical/statistical discipline (e.g. Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Operations Research or related quantitative area),and a GPA of 3.2 or above. You must also have experience leveraging analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, Python, or Tableau.

Ideally, you'll possess analytical skills and the ability to translate data, be a good communicator and team player.

Working in Wilmington

The Wilmington campus boasts a recently renovated office space featuring a cafe, coffee bar, wellness breakout spaces, and more. The campus is located along the historic Wilmington Riverfront where a glance out our windows reveals a scenic look at the Christina River and 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 fast and convenient

It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

US Job Posting Language – situations where no sponsorship will be offered (now or in the future):

To be eligible, applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Barclays will not sponsor applicants for work visas or offer any employment-based immigration sponsorship for

Purpose of the role

To participate in the day-to-day activities of the Barclaycard payments division providing insights and expertise that help senior colleagues make informed decisions, develop new products and services, and identify new market opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Execution of small research projects, research to support strategic decision making, preparation of presentations and reports to communicate research findings, collaboration with senior management to implement research findings for the Barclaycard payments division.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
• Participation in training and development programs to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Identification of opportunities, development of business cases, management of the deployment and launch of new products and services for the Barclaycard payments division.
• Management of client relationships and provision of customer service support to clients and customers, under steadily decreasing supervision, responding to questions about products and services, processing of transactions,.
• Management of the development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support in decision making for the Barclaycard payments division.
• Training and mentoring of junior colleagues.

Analyst Expectations

• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.

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.