Business Analyst - Payments Enterprise Technology - BPL

Barclays UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a skilled Business Analyst to facilitate data-driven strategic decisions. Based in London, you will analyze current systems, document requirements, and develop data-driven solutions. Relevant experience in Finance, HR, or Risk is essential, along with excellent communication skills. This position supports a hybrid model, requiring office attendance three days a week. Join us for an exciting opportunity to impact our payments business through advanced analytics and collaboration.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Career development opportunities

Performance-linked incentives

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success as a Business Analyst with a focus on data.
• Experience in documenting requirements and producing project artifacts.
• Ability to analyze and summarize complex data effectively.

Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis of data issues related to quality and controls.
• Design and build data pipelines for automation.
• Translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations.

Skills

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Proactivity

Risk management

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Data visualization tools

Machine Learning/AI tools

Job description

A fantastic opportunity to join us as we create a standalone Payments Acquiring business embracingafintechculture from our new offices alongside our Brookfield partners. This is an exciting time to join a unique project well suited to candidates who thrive in a fast paced, flat organisation with significant autonomy.

Enterprise Technology will be replacing a complex, largelyon-premisetechnology stack with a clean new SaaS landscape for Finance, Risk,HRand Functions IT.

We require askilled Business Analyst tosupport across the team withanalysis ofthe existing estate and migration to new.You’ll gather, process and provide data analysis asrequiredacrossEnterprise Technology.

To be successful in this role, you will need the following:

• Demonstrated success as a Business Analyst, with the ability to translate business requirements into clear, actionable delivery plans.
• Extremely datafocused. Evidenced ability to seek out,analyseand summarise complex data.

• Experience documentingrequirements andproducing project artefacts.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Highly pro-active and self sufficient.
• Experiencein the Finance,HRor Risk domains.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills.

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

The successful candidate will be based in London. Our offices are located at 1 Churchill Place and 7 Westferry Circus (new BPL office). We support a hybrid working pattern with 3 days per week office-based presence expected.

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients.

In April 2025, we announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients. Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve-outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long-term growth.

Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance-linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long-term commitment to the transformation. Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments (BPL) brand and acting as the sole payments acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years.

For more information on our partnership with Brookfield, please visit Barclays.com.

Purpose of the role

To enable data-driven strategic and operational decision making through extracting actionable insights from large datasets, performing statistical and advanced analytics to uncover trends and patterns, and presenting findings through clear visualisations and reports.

Accountabilities

• Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification, documenting data sources, methodologies, and quality findings with recommendations for improvement.
• Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques to large datasets to uncover trends and correlations, develop validated logical data models, and translate insights into actionable business recommendations that drive operational and process improvements, leveraging machine learning/AI.
• Through data-driven analysis, translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations, identifying opportunities for operational and process improvements.
• Design and create interactive dashboards and visual reports using applicable tools and automate reporting processes for regular and ad-hoc stakeholder needs.

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.