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Date live: May. 06, 2024

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90388881

Contract: Permanent

Credit Risk Technology Business Analyst 
Prague

As a Barclays Credit Risk Technology Business Analyst, you will be responsible for coordinating, planning and performing analysis tasks for their specialist applications and managing internal domain analysis for one or more components of a Programme. Get this exciting opportunity to act as a reviewer and quality gatekeeper for analysis output, challenging IT to ensure root cause is addressed and the right design delivered for user requirements.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?
•    Providing support to the Lead BA, helping to define analysis approach in line with the strategic vision and the preferred methodology of the organisation
•    Being responsible for articulating and presenting commercial effectiveness of requirement proposals within a project or initiative
•    Facing off to one or many business areas/SME's understanding high level requirements and challenging where necessary
•    Working independently to elicit, validating and documenting systems requirements in either BRDs or user/feature stories 
•    Participating in the Design process coordinated by the Programme Management team, from Design approval to functional design completion 
•    Supporting the Testing Strategy and input into the coverage of Test scenarios and conditions ensuring all requirements in scope are tested
•    Testing own the resolution of defects pertaining to requirement and design working together with test teams and SMEs

What we’re looking for:
•    Experiences in a related Financial Services discipline and experience working on Regulatory projects (e.g. Basel, IFRS9)
•    Ability to assimilate information quickly and make informed decisions and ability to use own initiative to resolve issues/ investigate and find solutions
•    Confident to have regular interaction with end-users and customers with great interpersonal skills
•    Experience providing support and resolving issues for systems in production and working in collaboration with and within cross-region teams and projects


Skills that will help you in the role:
•    Experience in delivering projects using Agile methodology
•    Exposure to Credit Risk domain within Investment Banking and understanding of the industry 
•    Experience of working with Queries and Data Models



Where will you be working?
Our Prague office is based in the financial centre of Prague.  We are part of the Operations and Technology Division, and as such, we try our best to stay at the top of our technological game. However, the technology itself is not the most important thing. What matters the most to us is the way our ingenuity can help provide better service to our customers and make life easier for our employees.







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