Job Title:	Business Development Analyst
Reference:	VJC_BDA_B5_MW_63319957
Salary:	£28,800 to £38,000 plus excellent benefits
Location(s):	Northamptonshire
Industry(s):	Consumer Finance
Advertiser:	Barclaycard
Employment Type:	Permanent
Posted:	20-11-2008

Description:

The Company

Barclaycard is part of the Barclays Group and is one of Europe’s largest multi-brand credit card and consumer lending businesses. In 1966, Barclaycard was the first credit card to be launched in the UK and the first all-purpose credit card in Europe.

Today, it is still the UK’s market leader and most recognised brand, with 11.2 million customers, but is now a rapidly expanding global cards and lending business with operations extending across over fifty countries and four continents.

Barclaycard can be used to pay for goods and services in over 24 million outlets in over 200 countries and to withdraw cash from over 600,000 cash machines and banks worldwide.

What does Barclaycard do?

Barclaycard is a multi-brand personal lending business that offers credit cards, secured and unsecured loans, marine finance, and point-of-sale finance to customers in the UK and across the world.

In the UK
Barclaycard’s primary UK activities include all Barclaycard-branded credit cards and loans, Barclayloan, Monument cards and loans, the retail, point-of-sale finance business Clydesdale Financial Services, and the FIRSTPLUS secured lending business.

Job Purpose

The job holder will form part of the Credit Risk Business Development Team within Barclaycard International; this role is to support potential new partnerships in our existing business within Germany and South Africa as well as expansion into new countries.

The objective of the role is to provide analytical support to the evaluation of new potential partnerships within our existing international markets as well as providing end to end credit risk input to potential new country launches (either organic or through merger and acquisition activity).

The job holder will also provide post go-live support to the BAU team for a limited period.

Role Detail

Provision of credit risk input to business cases for potential partnerships and new country launches.
Day 1 strategy design and implementation for launch ensuring processes are in place for tracking, monitoring and subsequent enhancement.
Stakeholder management/education – presenting analysis, conclusions and recommendations to management, project teams, in-country teams as well as potential new partners.
Liaising with IT teams to ensure speedy implementation of strategies and communicating progress.
Involvement in merger and acquisition activity particularly Due Diligence involving credit risk MI production, to understand performance of strategies against expectation, often on unfamiliar or incomplete data and often to tight deadlines.

Essential

Candidates must have previous Credit Card experience; preferably front end.
Knowledge of Credit Card market and credit risk management across the account lifecycle.
Highly proficient user of SAS – for data interrogation, identifying issues/opportunities and trends. Limited modelling – more about identifying shapes/patterns for deciders.
Ability to work fluently with various data sets used in running Barclaycard International’s business as well as the ability to explore/understand new data sets/sources.
Proficiency is required in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
Excellent and clear communicator able to work effectively as part of multi-functional, cross country project teams, often to challenging timeframes.