Description
We are seeking an Assistant Vice President to join our Group Strategy team at Barclays. As an Assistant Vice President, you will play a crucial role in developing and challenging Group and business unit strategies, delivering measurable impact on strategic projects that drive value across the Firm.
The successful candidate will provide independent and balanced advice and counsel to senior stakeholders through problem identification, solving, and decision-making practices.
Key responsibilities include:
- Providing strategic advice to Group Executives to support the decision-making process of business challenges and opportunities
- Developing and implementing strategic advisory incentives to grow and optimise the bank's operations
- Collaborating with various stakeholder groups to identify the appropriate strategic direction type to meet the needs of Barclays clients and investors
- Developing financial models to support strategic recommendations and transactions
- Managing transactions, negotiations, transaction structure development, and post-transaction integration
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders to maintain client relationships and develop new relationships to identify opportunities
- Identifying industry trends, maintaining peer benchmarking, and developments related to strategic advisory services
As an Assistant Vice President, you will be expected to:
- Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness
- Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function
- Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard
This role offers the opportunity to foster an enterprise-wide mindset and influence the Bank's future direction. You will contribute to high-impact projects that help define Barclays' long-term strategy, working on topics such as growth strategy, portfolio optimisation, market entry, and capital allocation under the direction of a VP or Director.
In return, you will have the opportunity to work on intellectually challenging projects that span geographies and business lines, in an environment that values analytical rigor, creativity, and collaboration.