Job description
Join us as a Cross Asset Business Analyst at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences
- You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, Business analysis skills as well as job-specific skillsets
- To be successful as a Cross Asset Business Analyst, you should have experience with:
- Basic/ Essential Qualifications
- Knowledge of full cycle Investment Bank trading concepts
- Understanding of a front-to-back stack in a trading environment
- Business analysis skills and development lifecycle experience, working within IT, with proven delivery record and an ability to work in a demanding environment
- Ease in working with matrixed and global environments
- A proactive attitude towards problem solving and willingness to be a hands-on technologist
- Prior experience as a BA with strong knowledge of how projects are run and managed in both waterfall and agile based environments
- Extensive experience in Financial markets, especially related to trade capture and end to end trade booking flows
- Knowledge of various products, business lines and trading concepts
- Ability to collaborate and work in a team-based work environment
- Detailed oriented and organized with clear written and verbal communication skills, appropriate to a given audience, (business, technical, functional, etc)
- Must be a self-starter who is comfortable working in a very dynamic environment, with rapidly changing priorities and under little supervision
- Superior analytic and problem solving skills ability to structure and scope complex problems, synthesize feedback, develop insights and recommendations
Desirable Skillsets/ Good To Have
- Strong time management and ability to coordinate with various teams to action items
- Ability to build ongoing work relationships across locations and teams
- Experience with MS Visio, Project, Excel, Word, SharePoint, JIRA as well knowledge sharing tools (e g Confluence wiki
- Background in Macro products and trade capture technology
- This role will be 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
- 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
