Business Analyst – Product Control

What will you be doing?

Barclays Services Corp. seeks Business Analyst – Product Control in Whippany, NJ (multiple positions available):

• Support and lead newly introduced RWA Governance Process across RFT and ensure all controls are in place and stringently followed while implementing RWA-impacting deliverables.

• Own and Lead Release Coordination activities tied to month-end production release ensuring tested and signed deliverables are released and deployed to production month-over-month.

• Provide continuous support in strategic data analysis for Enterprise Finance (Data Warehouse) including but not limited to analysis of feed files and underlying attributes prior to downstream publication of said feed files from data warehouse to consumers.

• Facilitate creation of Enterprise Finance (Data Warehouse)-related Data Products in the portal and enable flow of said Data Products all the way to Marketplace which is the Bank standard for all approved Data Products for consumption by data consumers across the Bank.

• Supervise and coordinate decommission of legacy applications in conjunction with Business and Development teams to facilitate cost reduction and reduce carbon footprint.

• Extend continuous support to downstream systems and downstream users where necessary for resolution of DQIs.

• Take ownership of production issues and defects brought to our attention by Business and facilitate quick resolution of said issues by tracking them from inception to resolution with Development.

• Analyze, assess, and solution design to extend, enhance, and innovate Barclays’ banking solutions and capabilities.

• Take ownership, co-ordinate and facilitate end to end requirements gathering.

• Document business, functional and non-functional requirements, model business process and manage acceptance/sign-off process.

• Prepare agreed deliverables in line with standards, to meet agreed quality standards and timelines.

• Work with the business to rapidly build the domain expertise and influence required to understand, and challenge business and functional requirements.

• Learn Application functionality and the financial controllers reporting domain.

• Perform end to end business requirements analysis.

• Provide functional support to development teams as well as business users.

• Create test scenarios and test cases and perform testing.

• Coordinate UAT and Regression testing with business users to ensure timely sign-off.

• Contribute to the development of business analysis, change management tools, techniques, standards and methodologies to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

• May telecommute.

Salary / Rate Minimum/yr: $162,500 per year

Salary / Rate Maximum/yr: $178,750 per year

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of a competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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.