Senior Business Analyst - AVP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Business Analyst - AVP. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will support the governance and oversight of financial crime risk across the business. Acting as a subject matter expert, you will oversee issues, incidents, and risk impact assessments, produce risk-level reporting, and engage with senior stakeholders. You will be part of the Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) portfolio, a multi‑faceted change programme designed to strengthen risk management, enhance automation, and empower colleagues and customers to prevent financial crime.

To be successful as a Senior Business Analyst – AVP, you should have experience with:

• Demonstrated ability in classic BA functions – requirements gathering, process mapping, data analysis, and documentation, translating complex regulatory or policy requirements into clear technical specifications and user stories. using tools like JIRA

• Experience working in agile project environments to deliver technology change. Comfortable breaking down work into epics/stories, prioritizing backlogs, and collaborating with Scrum Masters and developers in sprints

• Validated knowledge of financial crime systems in areas such as transaction monitoring, screening, sanctions, AML, CDD, and regulatory frameworks

• History of delivering enterprise-wide data platforms working with cross functional teams

• Proficiency of data analysis using SQL in an AWS cloud platform using Athena, data bricks

• Confirmed understanding of potential risks in proposed solutions or current processes and ability to work with control teams to mitigate them

Other highly valued skills may include: 

• Experience in data analytics tools like Tableau or Power BI or Python

• Experience in implementing Data Governance programs for financial crime domain

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills to build trusted relationships and collaborate across diverse groups

• Defining milestones, success measures, and business case components

• Fostering ample stakeholder engagement across multiple functions

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, New Jersey office.

Minimum Salary: $120,000

Maximum Salary: $175,000

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

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of 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 manage the efficient delivery of large-scale technical projects and capabilities across the bank and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle, adhering to agreed time, budget and quality requirements. 

Accountabilities

• Management of the delivery, resource allocation and improvement of complex technical project capabilities across the bank using Agile/Scrum methodologies for planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives and the execution of sprints.
• Collaboration with customers and business teams to manage and implement customer trails to support the proposal of technically feasible solutions, and effort and timeline expectations.
• Collaboration with software engineers, quality teams, product managers and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality products and features through the software project lifecycle aligned to the banks objectives, regulation and security policies.
• Identification, assessment, and mitigation of risks associated with technical projects to prepare the bank for potential challenges.
• Management of change requests and communication with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Management of vendor relations involved in technical projects to ensure they deliver according to agreed terms.
• Stay abreast of the latest industry technology trends and technologies, to evaluate and adopt new approaches to improving deliver outcomes and to foster a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence and growth.

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.