IFC Data - Business Analyst - VP

Embark on a transformative journey as IFC Data- Business Analyst- VP who will be accountable for shaping, owning and driving complex data requirements for enterprise Data Products, ensuring they deliver measurable business value while meeting regulatory, control and governance expectations.

The role provides strategic leadership across data‑driven initiatives, acting as a senior partner to business, technology and data teams, and ensuring that data products are defined, prioritized and delivered in a consistent, scalable and sustainable manner.

Key Responsibilities

Data Product Strategy & Ownership

• Own the end‑to‑end business and data requirements strategy for one or more Data Product domains.

• Define Data Product vision, scope, target outcomes and success metrics in partnership with senior stakeholders.

• Drive prioritization and roadmap decisions based on business value, risk, and delivery feasibility.

Senior Business & Data Analysis

• Lead complex business, functional and data requirement definition across multiple initiatives.

• Ensure requirements are outcome‑focused, clearly articulated and aligned to strategic objectives.

• Oversee the production and quality of key artefacts including BRDs, data requirement specifications, epics and user stories.

Data Discovery, Quality & Governance

• Provide senior oversight of data discovery, profiling and gap analysis activities.

• Ensure data requirements incorporate data quality, privacy, security, access and records management considerations.

• Drive traceability from business objectives through to delivered data products.

Delivery Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a senior engagement lead across business, data and technology stakeholders.

• Resolve complex requirement conflicts and trade‑offs across domains and consumers.

• Guide and mentor AVP‑level and junior Business Analysts, setting standards and best practices.

Risk, Control & Change Management

• Ensure data products support regulatory, audit and control expectations.

• Lead impact assessments for change requests and enhancements.

• Support go‑live approvals, benefits realization tracking and post‑implementation reviews.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience as a Business Analyst leading data‑driven or analytics initiatives.

• Strong expertise in defining requirements for enterprise Data Products, data platforms or analytical solutions.

• Proven ability to operate at senior stakeholder and VP‑level forums.

• Deep understanding of data concepts, metrics, lineage and consumption patterns.

• Strong leadership, decision‑making and influencing skills.

• Experience working in highly regulated or control‑driven environments.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience shaping data product roadmaps or portfolios.

• Exposure to data governance, data quality and regulatory programs.

• Familiarity with agile delivery models at scale.

• Experience supporting large‑scale data transformation or modernization initiatives.

You may be assessed on key essential skills relevant to succeed 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 out of 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.

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.