Senior Business Analyst

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Business Analyst. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solution. Join the global settlements post-trade team as a business analyst to help redefine the future landscape of trade post trade processes and settlements workflow. You'll be using Agile working practices to deliver at pace and making an impactful difference to our business users. In this dynamic role, you’ll work closely with supporting IT systems, developers, and testers to drive meaningful change across our post-trade infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for gathering and analyzing business requirements, translating them into system enhancements, and ensuring smooth delivery through collaborative Agile sprints.

To be successful as a Senior Business Analyst, you should have experience in:

• Eliciting and shaping business requirements through workshops, stakeholder engagement, and detailed analysis to ensure clarity, alignment, and compliance with regulatory obligations

• Collaborating across business, governance, and technical teams to design and specify solutions that meet both operational needs and strategic objectives

• Supporting delivery and implementation through comprehensive documentation, coordination of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), change tracking, and effective use of tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and MS Project

• Demonstrating a deep understanding of securities settlements and/or asset servicing, with practical experience in post-trade environments and related systems

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Solid understanding of the finance domain, especially in capital markets and post-trade operations

• SQL proficiency for effective data analysis and validation

• Experience in UML modeling to support clear communication of system and process designs

• Familiarity with Agile development practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and cross-functional collaboration

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 Whippany, NJ.

Minimum Salary: $115,000

Maximum Salary: $155,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include 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 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.