Barclays Employer Reviews

Manage the preparation of internal reporting for Investment Banking Division including weekly, monthly, and quarterly revenue reporting for presentation to senior management; monthly review and reconciliation of banking segment numbers for external disclosures.

Great place for young professional to build an enviable career in banking. An eye opener for me in the financial services industry.

manager only cares about your contribution and ignore everything else, once any failure, always blame on you.

Winning Together

I am currently a Real Estate Administration Manager at Barclays Bank Egypt to assist them improving their productivity, minimize operations waste and non-value added processes.
My Skills include all aspects of Administrations, publicity and public relation. I'm a good communicator, both self motivated and a team player, with high ability – more... to learn new technologies and extremely resourceful. My personal skills also include negotiating.
I'm willing to fill the mentioned job, as my experience will be of great help to your Organization business. – less

Effective team work and strict supervision.
Learned more about management skills, and customer relations( communication)
Effective co-workers committed to their work always makes us efficient.
Finding new customers was difficult sometimes.
The team-work was very enjoyable because of diverse contributions.

MY FIRT STEP INTO THE BANKING FIELD LOT TO TAKE IN AND FUN WHILE DOING SO
RELIABLE AND WITH INTERNAL POSSIBILITIES

Reviewing clients loan application and identifying details needed to provide accuracy in submission. Calling employers for background checks information, verifying on credit scores for loan application consideration, following up on clients documents needed to support loan application, calculating the gross income of the client to estimate the rate – more... of loan to be acquired. Ensuring proper details are updated in the client database, biographic information, work history, refernces checkup. Clear and efficient communication to the underwriter when loan application is ready.

Coworkers are great team players, great experience to work growth – less

1. Excellent Work Life balance
2. Flexible work hours
3. Friendly atmosphere
4. Not a very challenging environment

It is an exciting company to work for,where we had good colleague relations,good remunerations that added to the speed of our goals.I learnt how to work with others in order to meet my target. Management was well supporting,but the hardest part of the job is commuting from one place to the other when transport is not provided.However i enjoyed being – more... my own boss,and determining my own salary. – less

If you need a job to pay your bills, apply. As soon as you find another opportunity, leave.

International workforce, very diverse
Weekly travel
Solid management
Respectful work-life balance
But the industry is very challenged
Most enjoyable part of the job is the opportunity to learn from very bright people, as well as meeting clients and getting your ideas challenged.
Hardest part of the job is the overall industry environment which makes – more... innovation difficult. – less

I was responsible for the Recruitment function at the Retail Banking department.
At Barclays I learned how I can achieve my targets and manage to work under pressure, and to focus on reaching the major goals for my organization.
The Management at barclays provided a great level of support for their subordinates, and were target oriented.
The Recruitment – more... team "my team" succeeded to fulfill the mass recruiting demand of the bank with minimal recruiting costs, and at the same time were able to maintain highest caliber's level.

The most enjoyable part of the job was the challenge of achieving my targets, and ofcourse the great experience in Recruitment which I was lucky to have. – less

Everyone is hands on and ready to help you in any way they can. You're entrusted with real work very early on and you advance at a pace you're comfortable with.

I LOVED THIS COMPANY. THEY OFFERED GREAT HOURS, GREAT PAY, AND THE MANAGEMENT WERE VERY CARING AND HELPFUL. GREAT INCENTIVES, AND GREAT BENEFITS.

Escalation was the typical day at work
Learnt a lot of technical and infrastructure things
Did a lot of project management for the project
Enjoyed working with my co workers
Hardest part was to deliver the project within schedule in the limitations that the organization had in its DNA
Played a lot of cricket for Barclays which was fun

I worked as a Midrange Analyst which was responsible to maintain Tandem Production with SMS application. When I was there, I learned TACL script, SMS application, etc. Also I had a very helpful and friendly co-workers. I didn't have any difficulty on my job and the most enjoyable was i had a good teamwork.

-Company generally pays lower than the rest of the street
-Internal mobility is VERY difficult at Barclays
-A lot of the managers don't help their team members in areas of development and are more concerned with the bonus they themselves willl get
-Scandals - recent LIBOR rates has put pressure on the bank
-Ok place to work at the present moment
-Management – more... needs to value human capital – less

Compliance with OFAC, EU, UN, and other global sanctions: Analysis of filtered payments and messages, including investigations, QMS case management, Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Terrorist Financing, KYC. Use of various filtering applications, such as FMF Web Verify, DBScan, FOFA Decision, Scan-IT, VRisk, CCNG Director, RMPT, GFP, MTI.

Whilst i worked at Barclays Bank, I had the opportunity to learn and grow on a daily basis. No two days were ever the same.

Fast paced well organized company. Valued relations with coworkers and learning new products.