Business Analyst

Join us as a Business Analyst at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Business Analysis for Investment Banking Capital Markets Domain

• Experience working on Data modelling in IB Domain, Capital Markets across Securities, OTC and Derivatives products

• Experience working on data attributes used to define various data models like Trades, Securities Positions and Cash, Margin, Asset servicing, Confirms

• Experience working within Operations across front or middle or back office data

• Experience with No SQL preferably Mongo DB and data/log analysis

• Clear communication and business writing skills

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Problem solving skills to review system and operational issues and provide a solution by working across various teams.

• Having operations background is a plus.

• Experience working with Reconciliation or Exception management systems is a plus

Overall purpose of role

• Provide Business Analysis and Data modelling design solutions for Exception management application as part of target state architecture within post trade services space for Operations and technology IT supporting Equities, Institutional and Prime businesses in capital markets domain.   

• Planning and facilitating requirements gathering sessions with the global front, middle and back office teams and come up with solution to build out exception management platform to provide a single point interface to various settlement systems.

• Capturing and preparing business and functional requirements using structured analysis techniques. Facilitating business comprehension and sign off of requirements documentation.

• Managing business interaction through iterative development and testing cycles. Working with stakeholders to resolve data quality issues in Production environment

This role is based in Pune.

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.