Lead Business Analyst

Barclays UK; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Lead Business Analyst, where you will drive innovation and excellence in the digital landscape. In this pivotal role, you will identify business requirements and propose solutions to address complex challenges. You will work closely with stakeholders, facilitating workshops and ensuring that all proposed solutions align with strategic objectives. Your analytical skills will be crucial in conducting feasibility studies and creating business cases that justify investments. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to transformative projects and help shape the future of the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience in user story writing and requirements elicitation.
• Strong stakeholder management and analytical thinking skills.
• Knowledge of agile and waterfall methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze business problems and client requirements.
• Support the creation of business cases and feasibility studies.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure proposed solutions meet needs.

Skills

User Story writing

Requirements elicitation

Stakeholder management

Workshop Facilitation

Presentation skills

Attention to detail

Process modelling

Agile methodology

Waterfall methodology

Change management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

Step into the role of a Lead Business Analyst where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence.

To be successful as a Lead Business Analyst, you should have experience with:

• User Story writing and creation
• Requirements elicitation and analytical thinking
• Stakeholder management and ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels
• Workshop Facilitation - Leading workshops and driving outcomes
• Presentation skills - ability to present complex data in an easily digestible form
• Attention to detail

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Process modelling both current state and as is
• Key technical understanding of digital capabilities (API, databases)
• Agile & waterfall methodology understanding
• Change management - experience with the change management process and delivery lifecycle

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

This role can be based out of either our Northampton or Knutsford campus.

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 escalate 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.