Senior Risk Business Analyst - NAPA

As a Senior Risk Business Analyst, you will play a pivotal role within the Risk function, leading transformation efforts under the NAPA (New and Amended Product Approval) programme. This initiative is a key component of the broader Minevra three year plan to be Simpler, Better and More Balanced. You will be responsible for driving robust functional business requirements across the programme and ensuring these are effectively translated between technical and business stakeholders.  Your leadership will be instrumental in collaborating and overseeing a team of Business Analysts—both permanent and external—ensuring delivery excellence, fostering a centre of excellence in transformation, and embedding operational risk expertise into the change agenda.

You will act as a strategic partner across the transformation programme, working closely with Product Owners and change leads and risk subject matter experts to ensure seamless execution of change initiatives. Your remit will involve opportunities to support other principal risk initiatives requiring you to demonstrate versatility and precision in articulating requirements. With a considerable foundation in both technical and business analysis, you will ensure that all documentation is clear, actionable, and aligned with programme objectives. This is a high-impact role with the potential to grow into broader risk transformation leadership, ideal for someone with the confidence, experience, and ambition to shape the future of risk change delivery.

To be successful as a Senior Risk Business Analyst, you should have experience with:

• Proven leadership experience in managing and mentoring Business Analysts within complex transformation programmes.

• Considerable stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to present to and influence senior executives.

• In-depth knowledge of operational risk structures, with experience across various risk types such as operational, treasury, and capital risk.

• Demonstrated ownership of the full requirements lifecycle, ensuring clarity, quality, and alignment across teams including an understanding of how requirements feed into both agile and waterfall methodologies

• Ability to simplify and communicate complex information in a structured manner to both technical and non-technical audiences.

You my 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

Your role is located from 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.

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.