Business Analyst

Join us at Barclays as a Business Analyst. At Barclays, we’re redefining the future of financial services through innovation, data, and human insight. We’re looking for a forward-thinking Business Analyst to help shape solutions that deliver real value to our customers and drive strategic outcomes across the organisation.

Key Skills

• Hands-on AI Experience
  You actively leverage AI tools to support analysis, run simulations, and inform decision-making. You are comfortable applying emerging technologies to solve business problems and enhance outcomes.

• Product Thinking, Communication & Growth Mindset
  You focus on delivering continuous, measurable value to users. You communicate clearly and confidently with diverse stakeholders, collaborate effectively across teams, and bring curiosity with a strong drive to learn and improve.

• Data Literacy & Experimentation
  You are confident working with data, analytics, and performance metrics. You adopt a test-and-learn approach, using experimentation to generate insights and guide business decisions.

Desirable Skills

• Business & Commercial Insight
  You have a strong understanding of Barclays’ business, customer landscape, and key challenges, enabling you to identify meaningful opportunities for improvement.

• Agile Ways of Working
  You have experience working in Agile environments, delivering iteratively and collaborating within cross-functional teams to achieve outcomes.

• Trade & Working Capital Experience
  You bring knowledge of Trade & Working Capital products, processes, and client needs, enabling you to contribute domain expertise where applicable.

This role is based in Knutsford

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

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.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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.
• OR 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.