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Job Description

The purpose of this role is to support business success by helping senior leaders navigate complex challenges, make informed decisions, and achieve strategic goals.

Accountabilities

• Work with business teams and senior leadership to develop and implement strategies aligned with organizational objectives and regulatory expectations.
• Act as a liaison between business units and functional teams to encourage collaboration and effective communication.
• Coordinate strategic initiatives, projects, and change management efforts to improve processes and strengthen the control environment.
• Enhance operational efficiency by identifying improvement opportunities, streamlining processes, and introducing best practices to improve productivity.
• Create performance reports for key metrics that support divisional strategy and external commitments.
• Assist with financial analysis and budget activities including planning, forecasting, and monitoring performance against targets.
• Support business heads alongside HR in hiring activities, workforce planning, and joiner, mover, and leaver processes.

Analyst Expectations

• Complete assigned tasks accurately and within timelines while continuously improving processes.
• Develop strong technical understanding and practical knowledge within the assigned area of expertise.
• Apply a solid understanding of concepts and principles related to the function.
• Where required, supervise team members by allocating work, guiding development, and coordinating resources.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours that help colleagues perform at a consistently high standard. These behaviours include listening authentically, inspiring teams, aligning across the organisation, and developing others.
• For individual contributors, build deep technical expertise and provide guidance within the work area when required.
• Collaborate with other teams and business functions to support shared objectives.
• Take responsibility for operational outcomes, ensuring work is delivered effectively.
• Escalate policy or procedural breaches appropriately and help embed new risk mitigation policies.
• Influence decisions within the area of expertise and maintain strong risk management and control practices.
• Develop an understanding of how the sub-function integrates with the wider function, including products, services, and processes.
• Make informed judgements based on factual analysis and careful attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by applying experience and established precedents to identify appropriate solutions.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information clearly and build networks with stakeholders across and beyond the organisation.

Colleagues are expected to demonstrate Barclays values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship. They should also adopt the Barclays mindset to Empower, Challenge, and Drive in their work.

As a Macro BM Analyst at Barclays, you will work within global financial hubs supporting clients in understanding macro market movements and their potential impact on portfolios. This includes factors such as central bank interest rate changes influencing currency markets or relationships between commodity prices and emerging market currencies.

The role contributes to providing short term and thematic insights that help clients manage portfolios effectively and structure products for hedging or investment goals. Trading desks focus on analysing flows across interest rates and foreign exchange in both G10 and emerging market currencies.

The position supports the Global Macro Business Management team as part of the Macro Business Analytics team in Mumbai. The team produces critical MIS reports, strategy presentations, business performance reviews, revenue forecasting models, budgeting models, and ad hoc analysis. The role will primarily support teams based in London and New York, and therefore work may align with EMEA business hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Create business MI and strategy presentations.
• Develop KPI reporting and conduct trend analysis.
• Prepare reports analysing drivers of trading revenues, sales credit, volumes, costs, coalition metrics, margins, market share, RWA, and LBS.
• Build and maintain dashboards for business reporting.
• Perform customized ad hoc analysis to support business managers in evaluating performance and identifying lead or lag indicators.

Preferred Skills

• Understanding of macro business and financial markets.
• Experience producing and enhancing business MI reporting.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience building visualizations using Tableau, QlikView, or Qlik Sense.
• Hands-on experience with VBA and Python.
• Ability to work according to business requirements including EMEA hours.