Cross Markets Technical BA

Join us as a Business Analyst at Barclays, Responsible for supporting the successful delivery of Location Strategy projects to plan, budget, agreed quality and governance standards. You'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences.

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

• Experience as a developer, business analyst, middle office analyst or trading support analyst

• The role would involve strong analysis and joiner would be expected to work closely with business stakeholders and other regional development team members.

• Experience/Knowledge to work with relational database, preferably MS SQL Server/T-SQL.

• A good team player and excellent communication skills – verbal & written and a strong advocate of the control environment

• Data migration & Data/Gap Analysis

• Analytical thinking

 Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Finance knowledge including Investment Banking products and concepts including  RWA (risk weighted assets) and revenues/income, with experience of financial reporting.

• Assist in all relevant stages of the Project’s lifecycle including analysis, design, test & deployment/go-live

• Definition of comprehensive documentation including business requirements, process flow diagrams, testing plans and scenarios, input into business and technology procedures; to be executed against quarterly and monthly release cycles

• Definition & regular communication of progress against individual task plans that roll-up into project plans

• Define and interpret requirements and roadmaps for delivery effective working relationships with key stakeholders and sponsors within global business units and delivery teams, particularly across Front Office trading areas, Run the Bank technology teams and application leads

• Identify and act on opportunities to deliver efficiencies, reduce timescales and improve flows between business areas

• Continually assess processes with a view to implement improvements

• Maintain positive stakeholder relationship

• Maintain and build partnerships with level 1, level 2 support and other IT areas

• Ensure compliance to internal and external (regulatory) standards within the team

• Ensuring engineering activities conform to bank standards and policies

• Enable decommissioning of legacy systems and platforms

• Working directly with front office trading, operations and other business users to collect requirements and provide regular status updates and support Ability to quickly build strong relationships with multiple stakeholders and comfortable adapting style to suit different audiences as required

• Previous experience in managing and interacting with multiple stakeholders at all levels

• Demonstrates a broad understanding of how the bank operates and the metrics used to measure performance

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 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.