Director - Strategic Advisory

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To provide independent and balanced advice and counsel to senior stakeholders through problem identification, solving and decision making practices.

Accountabilities

• Provision of strategic advice to Group Executives to support the decision-making process of business challenges and opportunities.
• Development and implementation of strategic advisory incentives to grow and optimise the bank’s operations, through market research and analysis.
• Collaboration with various stakeholder groups to identify the appropriate strategic direction type to meet the needs of Barclays clients and investors.
• Development of financial models to support strategic recommendations and transactions through financial data analysis, financial projects and considering the financial impact of transactions.
• Management of transactions, negotiations, transaction structure development and post-transaction integration.
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders to maintain client relationships, and develop new relationships to identify opportunities.
• Identification of industry trends, maintain peer benchmarking and developments related to strategic advisory services by attendings conferences, participating in training and conducting market research.

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

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

You will be one the leaders in our growing, London based Group Strategy team focused on driving the group’s long term strategic ambition, maximizing returns now and tomorrow. You will help to deliver our mandate:

•  Partner with senior executives to develop and challenge Group and business unit strategies

• Deliver impact on strategic initiatives by identifying opportunities for growth and optimization

• Develop talent in the team and foster a culture of development and enablement to achieve full potential. 

You Should Have:

• Significant experience at a top tier consultancy, ideally in combination with experience in a client focused role in Financial Services (Corporate and Investment Banking, Wealth & Private Banking, UK Retail and SME Banking)

• Solid analytical mindset and approach to problem solving

• Proven ability to shape, develop and execute a strategy to drive change

• An ability to read a room and understand and balance the objectives of multiple stakeholders

• Experience building and leading project teams

•  A clear first instinct to partner and place the team and Barclays above personal advancement