FX Senior Business Analyst

Join Barclays as an FX Senior  Business Analyst, where you’ll be responsible for supporting FX systems as part of a large-scale transformation programme. Your role is not customer-facing but involves a high level of internal stakeholder guidance across global teams. You will work closely with consultants, internal developers, UX designers, testers, and technical supports to deliver a highly detailed FX technology solution, migrating from legacy systems towards a more agile, modular setup.

The ability to assess business processes and elicit requirements from stakeholders, working to convert these into user stories with clear success criteria for the development team.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• The ability to clearly articulate requirements and present them to both business and technical stakeholders for sign-off.
• An understanding of the proposed technical solutions and the capability to assess how well these meet the business needs.
• Good communication skills to drive discussions with senior stakeholders, explaining requirements at a high level for business audiences and in greater detail for developers.
• The ability to gain approvals and sign-offs for requirements and success criteria from the Product team.

Technical capabilities including:

• Investigating the application landscape
• Supporting solution architects with data queries
• Reading and understanding .json/.xml files
• Querying databases
• Evaluating data files and capturing data flows
• Documenting business processes in both current and target states
• Connecting requirements to test cases and collaborating with developers and the test team to confirm—using data evidence—that requirements are met.

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Knowledge of corporate or investment banking, particularly in FX trading or cross-currency payments.
• Experience working in an Agile environment as part of a cross-functional Scrum team, using Jira for requirement capture and being familiar with Scrum boards and ceremonies.
• The ability to support the delivery team with stakeholder communications, mentorship information (MI), and reporting.

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

This role is based in London.

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.

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.