Business Analyst

Barclays; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Knutsford is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to translate complex business needs into clear requirements, bridging business and technology to deliver valuable solutions.

You will collaborate with stakeholders across functions, map processes, and shape user journeys while ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and customer outcomes. The role is on-site in Knutsford, offering opportunities to contribute to transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to elicit, document and validate business requirements.
• Experience translating stakeholder needs into clear, actionable requirements.
• Proven traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Develop business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaborate 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.

Skills

Critical thinking

Stakeholder management

Requirements analysis

Job description

Join Barclays as a Business Analyst and help drive meaningful change across our business and technology landscape. You will work closely with stakeholders to understand challenges, identify opportunities and translate business needs into clear requirements that support the delivery of effective solutions. As a key member of the team, you will bridge the gap between business and technology, ensuring initiatives are aligned to strategic objectives and deliver value to customers, colleagues and the wider organisation.

Essential Skills

• Critical thinking - Ability to analyse complex business problems, challenge assumptions, evaluate options and provide structured recommendations that support effective decision-making.

• Stakeholder management - Proven ability to build trusted relationships across business and technology teams, facilitate workshops, manage competing priorities and influence outcomes across a diverse stakeholder landscape.

• Requirements analysis - Strong experience eliciting, documenting and validating business requirements, translating stakeholder needs into clear, actionable requirements and ensuring traceability throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Desired

• Process mapping - Experience documenting current and future state processes, identifying inefficiencies and opportunities for optimisation, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

• Wireframing - Ability to create simple wireframes and visual representations of proposed solutions to support requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement and solution validation.

• User-journey mapping - Experience mapping end-to-end user journeys to understand customer and colleague experiences, identify pain points and support the design of improved processes and solutions.

This role is based in Knutsford.

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

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.