Financial Crime Business Analyst

Join us as a Financial Crime Business Analyst at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.

As a Financial Crime Business Analyst, you will analyse key areas of financial crime, including triggers and ID&V, across Barclays Group globally. Your focus will be on assessing the current state, identifying opportunities for improvement, and ensuring consistency across the organisation.

You will collaborate with stakeholders to define requirements and support the achievement of strategic targets, helping to strengthen Barclays' approach to financial crime prevention

To be successful as a Financial Crime Business Analyst, you should have:

• Good understanding of CDD and ID&V processes within Financial Services
• Excellent documentation skills (user stories, requirements, process flows) and stakeholder communication
• Ability to analyse data an interpret regulatory requirements into business impacts

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience with trigger logic or event-driven reviews (e.g. address change, account activity)
• Exposure to financial crime systems and processes across financial services
• Experience in collaboration closely with business and technology teams
• Jira / Change Delivery Tooling

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

We will consider applications from those able to work from either our Glasgow or Northampton office.

Purpose of the role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities. 

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.