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Senior Credit Risk Portfolio Management Analyst
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Senior Credit Risk Portfolio Management Analyst
# Senior Credit Risk Portfolio Management Analyst at Barclays
Hackajob is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this Senior Credit Risk Portfolio Management Analyst role.
Join us within Barclays, where you will play a key part in shaping the future of banking by focusing on credit risk and credit strategy. Your responsibilities will include developing, deploying, and refining credit strategies aligned with regulatory and affordability requirements. You will analyse the external environment, identify critical risk drivers, and lead change and transformation initiatives. Additional duties include managing, reporting, and articulating credit risks while ensuring robust controls are in place.
Purpose of the Role
To effectively manage and optimise Barclays’ overall credit risk exposure by:
- Monitoring and analysing the financial performance and risk profile of the entire lending portfolio—including individual borrowers, sectors, and geographic regions.
- Identifying baseline trends, early warning signs in borrower behaviour, and the impact of economic and market developments.
- Developing and utilising quantitative models and risk forecasting tools to predict potential credit losses.
- Conducting portfolio stress tests under various economic scenarios to assess risk profiles.
- Defining and setting portfolio risk appetite, policy, and limits, while overseeing first-line compliance.
At an Assistant Vice President level, your role will include:
- Advising and influencing decision-making, contributing to policy development, and ensuring operational effectiveness.
- Leading a team performing complex analysis, requiring expert knowledge to deliver impactful business outcomes.
- Setting objectives, coaching team members, and conducting appraisals and reward determinations.
- For teams, demonstrating LEAD behaviours:
- L – Listen and be authentic,
- E – Energise and inspire,
- A – Align across the enterprise,
- D – Develop others.
- For individual contributors, leading collaborative projects and identifying new directions for assignments by leveraging cross-functional methodologies.
- Consulting on complex issues, providing expert advice to executive leaders, and resolving escalations.
- Identifying strategies to mitigate risk and developing policies or procedures for stronger control and governance.
- Collaborating with multiple functions to align business expansion with risk objectives.
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All colleagues are expected to align with Barclays’ core Values:
- Respect
- Integrity
- Service
- Excellence
- Stewardship —and adopt the Barclays Mindset:
- Empower, Challenge, Drive
This role is based in Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape and drive credit risk strategy in alignment with regulatory and business requirements.
- Deploy and refine analytical frameworks to monitor and manage portfolio-level risk.
- Lead change/transformation initiatives in credit risk management.
- Conduct stress testing, scenario modeling, and predictive analytics to assess lending portfolios.
- Define and model portfolio risk appetite frameworks.
- Ensure adherence to standards, controls, and governance policies.
- Work closely with business units and governance teams.
- Represent Barclays in discussions with regulators, auditors, or third parties.
- Advise senior leadership on credit risk strategy development and operational execution.
- Lead teams or individuals in delivering analytically rigorous solutions.
- Seamlessly translate complex insights to stakeholders, including executives without specialist knowledge.
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Required Skills & Experience
Essential
- A degree or equivalent qualification with analytical focus (preferably STEM, quantitative, or data-related).
- Proven experience in raising insights from large data sets, including trend/opportunity identification.
- Demonstrated capability as an analytical self-starter, working autonomously and proactively.
- An excellent problem-solver with strong numerical and analytical reasoning.
- Experience using programming or analytical languages for data manipulation, validation, and reporting.
Other Highly Desirable Skills
- Experience with SAS, SQL, or advanced Excel for data querying and analytical research.
- Deep knowledge of credit risk and financial indicators, with financial modelling skills.
- Experience working in financial services, particularly within regulated environments.
- Exceptional ability to translate data into actionable proposals.
- Proven record of building and maintaining collaborative relationships across business functions.
Competency Testing
You may be assessed on critical competencies such as:
- Risk and controls capability,
- Change and transformation,
- Financial strategy and acumen,
- Digital/technological proficiency.
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