Vice President Senior Business Analyst

Embark your transformative journey as Vice President Senior Business Analyst for Merchant Acquiring domain. The successful candidate will be responsible for business analysis activities by following Agile practices, ensuring the standards are adhered to and exceeded and that all project requirements are met. To work with the business and operations to understand and develop their business requirements. To formulate recommendations based on analysis in order to influence the decisions of the business. Translate the Business requirements into functional requirements and work with the Vendor and other delivery teams to define requirement scope and interdependencies. To work with technology partners to ensure technology have a full understanding of the Business requirements. The Role is required to interact with various teams during requirement definition like Business, Product, Operations, Finance, Risk and Compliance to understand the requirements. The role is also expected to interact with the Application Vendor to define and clarify the requirements that are captured. The role is also expected to interact with various dependent application teams in the landscape. To Investigate alternate business solutions to issues / challenges, and represent these business solutions for agreement. To document the requirements in the agreed format to the required level of detail. The role is required to have good general communication and documentation skills to give clear and concise descriptions in flexible terminology such that concepts can be described to the Business, Technical and Management stakeholders with equal flexibility.

To be successful as Vice President Senior Business Analyst, you should have experience with:

• Strong Business Analyst experienced in large scale implementations / transformations.
• Strong knowledge of Cards and Payments. Knowledge of Payment Facilitators / MarketPlaces.
• Knowledge of Alternate Payment Method and knowledge of Payment Gateways.
• Expert in Merchant Acquiring domain (end to end life cycle):Merchant Onboarding,Merchant Servicing,Transaction Processing,Scheme Clearing,Scheme Settlement,Merchant billing,Merchant settlement,Merchant Risk Management.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

Experienced on Agile. Strong at communication. Expert at stakeholder management (Product / Risk / Legal / Operations / Finance / Front Office). Ready for managing a team of high performing business analysts (perm and SIs). Working knowledge of process mapping tools, JIRA and Confluence.

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 for Pune Location.

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.