Business Planning - Operations

Business Planning Operations

London or Northampton

As a Barclays Business Planning Operations, you will be responsible for providing robust and interlocked forecasts flowing from volumes to FTE to into the BUK Quarterly Planning cycle. The role is a key input into the quarterly plan which integrates customer plan, product plans, commercial plans and operational. You must have a combination of strategic, analytical, and stakeholder management skills, and success in this role demands stakeholder management and financial skills coupled with data presentation skills.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

This role will be based from either London or Northampton. We will confirm your place of work at the point of offer, ensuring that this is considered in line with our future ways of working and overall location strategy. The hiring manager for the role will discuss the appropriate defined time in office for the role with you as part of the application process.

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.

What will you be doing?

• Working collaboratively with the VP Operational Volume Interlock to provide robust and interlocked forecasts flowing from volumes to FTE to cost

• Providing sound and robust challenge and debate on initiatives, ideas and thought leadership to help translate vision and direction into robust strategy and plans

• Providing accurate insight to allow for cost/service/other trade-offs when needed to meet both short-term and long-term commitments

• Working flexibly with colleagues across Customer, Product and Operations to produce a fully integrated plan and maintain a clear and robust data book

• Improving continually planning processes and expanding coverage as the quarterly integrated planning process evolves

• Influencing and building collaborative relationships with senior leaders across BUK to enable greater alignment and generate strategic options

What we're looking for:

• Must have a banking operations background

• Solid financial and data presentation skills

• Business planning experience

• Relationship building, stakeholder management and great communication skills

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Ability to run workshops

• Data visualisation experience and proficiency (Tableau, InDesign, Power BI)

• Understanding of business strategy and ability to ensure projects are delivering to that strategy

• Knowledge of manipulating reports and analysing data to put forward recommendations and suggest new way of working

Where will you be working?

London:

In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.

Northampton:

Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we've been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997. This state-of-the art energy efficient building holds up to 2,500 staff. The office location is perfect for travel from the midlands and London alike as we are based just off the A45, it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.

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