Operations Analyst Graduate Programme

Job description

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.

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

Why the Operations Graduate Programme?

At any given moment, Barclays is a hive of activity and opportunity. A couple gets their first mortgage, or uses a credit card to finance a family holiday. In the same breath, a business agrees the asset financing for a new fleet of vehicles, or our team raises debt financing for a university’s refurbishment – such as building new accommodation or sports facilities. It’s all happening at once, every minute of the day.

To maintain that real time activity around the world, across investment, corporate and retail banking, you need smooth-running, constantly improving systems behind the scenes. Payments need to be processed. Credit card systems need to be maintained. Trades, equity transactions, debt financing – you name it – it has to be slick, effective and swiftly processed so our customers and clients receive excellent service, every time. That essential work, encompassing absolutely everything we do, is down to the Operations team. Put simply, they’re the heartbeat of the bank.

Real responsibility, right away

You’ll start with five weeks of intensive training, after which, you’ll join our team, building a solid foundation in Operations and helping the Group deliver our strategy – in the right way. You’ll join either our Global Markets Operations group or our Cards and Payments team. As a full-time analyst, you may:

• Perform KYC tasks while following standard procedures related to Client Due Diligence and AML policies

• Monitor real time transaction flow, trade updates and exception queues to ensure timely and accurate trade representation across systems

• Work on incident, problem and change management issues to improve services across the bank

• Support continuous improvement of the operational process and the development of best practices; coming up with ways to improve systems and processes

• Provide support for cleared derivatives, performing perform daily reconciliation of related fees

• Undertake a range of complex customer and product related processing activities.

Operations at Barclays

Millions of people, businesses and corporations across the globe rely on Barclays. From helping people buy their first homes to enabling companies to grow; from the day-to-day personal finances that make life possible to the massive investments that help whole economies thrive, Barclays is there. Every minute of every day. And none of this can happen without the smooth-running, ever improving systems behind the scenes. Payments need to be processed. Credit card systems need to be maintained. Trades, equity transactions, debt financing — all of these must be verified and swiftly processed.

What we are looking for:

To be considered for this programme, you must be motivated with a strong degree or expected degree – in any area.

Ideally, you would also have:

A customer-driven attitude and an ability to quickly adapt to change and learn new technologies, a passion for hunting out what’s new on the market and how it can improve what you do. We are looking for someone who is tech savvy, curious and creative disruptive approach: you’re not content with the status quo if there’s a way to do it better, and have the ability for turning complex data into easily understood insights and are happy talking to anyone.

Working in Manchester

Manchester is one of the most exciting cities to live and work in the UK. It’s a vibrant, energetic place – an important centre of gravity for business and technology, with a thriving cultural life and its own unique identity. It’s also a place where every function of the Barclays organisation is represented and is the biggest community of Barclays colleagues (over 1500) outside of Canary Wharf in London. From colleagues serving customers in our branch network or Sky branch, to technical experts developing our digital products at our Radbroke campus.

It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, 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.