Avaloq Business Analyst

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we shape it. Embark on a transformative journey as AVP - Avaloq Business Analyst, where you’ll join our Pune-based team supporting Barclays’ International Private Bank and Wealth Management operations across the UK, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. This is an exciting opportunity to work with the latest Avaloq core banking platform and its satellite interfaces, helping Barclays Wealth expand into new markets. Your key responsibilities will include delivering quality business solutions across multiple software development projects, bridging business and technology teams to analyze requirements and implement change, documenting and validating requirements to ensure they align with business needs, coordinating with project managers, designers, and development teams to drive solutions, and sharing best practices to mentor colleagues – all while ensuring deliverables meet Barclays’ standards for quality and compliance. 

To be successful as an AVP - Avaloq Business Analyst, you should have experience with: 

• Extensive experience (8+ years) in business analysis within Wealth Management and/or Investment Banking, demonstrating deep domain knowledge of financial products and processes. 

• Proven ability to gather, analyze, and document business requirements (including functional and non-functional specifications), and to manage the end-to-end stakeholder sign-off process. 

• Experience collaborating with both business and technology teams to implement change, ensuring solutions align with business requirements and strategic objectives. 

• Strong expertise in core banking systems, with hands-on experience in Avaloq or comparable platforms (e.g., Finacle, T24). 

• A good understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and familiarity with modern project tools (such as JIRA and Confluence). 

• Good organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail. 

• Proven ability to communicate effectively and build strong relationships across a wide stakeholder base. 

• A proactive and professional approach to problem solving and decision making. 

• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field). 

Some other highly valued skills may include: 

• A self-starter with good communications skills. 

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

The location of the role is Pune, IN. 

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.