Data Analyst

Job Title: Data Analyst

Location: Northampton 

Contract Length: 6 Months (possibility to extend or go Permanent)

PAYE only

Please note this is a Hybrid Role with 2 days in the Northampton office per week(office days are usually a Tuesday and Thursday or Friday)

Barclays Overview

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.  If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

Structured Hybrid role

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

About BUK

Our customers don’t separate Barclays into branches, contact centres, or digital channels. They just see one Barclays. So why should we be any different? We have to be one Barclays. That means seeing the bigger picture, not just the channel or area we work in. We often see Barclays from the inside-out, but we need to see Barclays from the outside-in, the way our customers see us. We have to be joined-up, to understand what we offer across all our channels and centres of excellence, to connect the customer in front of us with the best solution we can collectively offer them. Customers can choose what works for them: the empathy and expertise of a human touch combined with the ease and efficiency of digital, personalised by data. That’s how we’ll make every experience loved. 

It starts with us. We have to be restlessly curious about our colleagues across Barclays UK – who they are and what they do – so we can proactively offer customers the right channel for them.

The Data Analyst Role:

The Data Analytics & Modelling family use scientific methods, algorithms and systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data, to support business decisions and activities. Responsible for performing computer programming to create tools that automate analysis, provides insights, and creates visual presentations. Also involved in providing quantitative and analytical support to develop, implement and assess strategies to maximise product profitability.

The Data & Analytics Job Family Group creates models for analysis and/or visualisation of data, including predictive analysis, business intelligence, pattern recognition, operational efficiency and/or economic forecasting.

The Data Analyst positions are an excellent opportunity for anyone who has worked in junior Data roles and is looking for an opportunity for a role that could lead to progression in the future and an opportunity to go Permanent. If successful you will be given 3-6 Months coaching and training to help you map out a career path within Barclays. 

Duties of the Data Analyst:

Job Profile Summary

• To implement data quality process and procedures, ensuring that data is reliable and trustworthy, then extract actionable insights from it to help the organisation improve its operation, and optimise resources Accountabilities

• Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification.

• Execution of data cleansing and transformation tasks to prepare data for analysis.

• Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.

• Development and application of advanced analytical techniques, including machine learning and AI, to solve complex business problems.

• Documentation of data quality findings and recommendations for improvement 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 your 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 the sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisation's 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 a contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organisation.

• All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship and our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindsets to Empower, Challenge and Drive the operating manual for how we behave.

Key Skills/ Experience required for the Data Analyst Role:

• 2-3 years experience working with Data 

• Biochemistry/ Mathematics degree or of similar nature 

• Looking for a career within Data and a want to progress 

• Proven eye for detail

• Complex problem solver

• Previously worked with SQL/ Python 

• Data pulling skills 

• Analytical mindset 

Purpose and Values 

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.

Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect

We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.

Integrity

We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.

Service

We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.

Excellence

We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.

Stewardship

We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower 

Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.

Challenge

Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.

Drive

Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.