Business / Product Analyst

3761 Barclays - BX - UK; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Business / Product Analyst to drive the evolution of our digital landscape, leading the analysis of complex financial crime topics, including triggers and ID&V, across Barclays Group globally.

You will assess the current state, identify improvement opportunities, and work with senior stakeholders to define business requirements and support strategic targets, with offices in Northampton, Knutsford, Glasgow or London.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Product Requirement Definition & Prioritisation
• Proven experience in end-to-end business analysis, including requirements gathering, process mapping and gap analysis
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable solutions

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis of complex financial crime topics, including triggers and ID&V across Barclays Group globally
• Define business requirements and support achievement of strategic targets with senior stakeholders

Job description

Job Description 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.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/ changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.

Join us as a Business / Product Analyst at Barclays

You will spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will lead the analysis of complex financial crime topics, including triggers and ID&V, across Barclays Group globally. You will assess the current state, identify improvement opportunities, and drive consistency across regions. Working with senior stakeholders, you’ll navigate complex scenarios to define business requirements and support the achievement of strategic targets, ensuring Barclays stays ahead in its efforts to combat financial crime.

To be successful as a Business / Product Analyst, you should have:

• Extensive experience of Product Requirement Definition & Prioritisation
• Proven experience in end-to-end business analysis, including requirements gathering, process mapping and gap analysis
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and translate complex regulatory requirements into actionable solutions

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Extensive Financial Crime / Customer Lifecycle Knowledge
• Data Product & API Understanding
• User Story & Backlog Management

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.

We will consider applications from those able to work from either our Northampton, Knutsford, Glasgow or London offices. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.