Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) Transaction Monitoring Senior Business Analyst

Barclays UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to lead financial crime initiatives. This role involves analyzing business requirements and developing solutions to enhance transaction monitoring. You will collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions align with their needs, while also conducting feasibility studies and supporting change management activities. Join a dynamic team where your analytical skills and strategic thinking will drive impactful changes within the organization. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the governance agenda and strengthen controls in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing financial controls and governance.
• Strong analytical skills for quality assurance and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze business problems and client requirements.
• Support change management activities and develop business cases.

Skills

Financial controls/management

Change Delivery Management governance

Senior stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Risk and controls

Business acumen

Strategic thinking

Tools

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Visio

Navigator

Reporting tools

Dashboards

Job description

Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) Transaction Monitoring Senior Business Analyst

Barclays is seeking an accomplished Integrated Financial Crime (IFC) Transaction Monitoring Senior Business Analyst to join our team. Within the role, you will work in a fast-paced environment, responsible for multiple financial crime initiatives in the Transaction Monitoring (TM) space.

To be successful as an IFC Transaction Monitoring Senior Business Analyst, you should have:

• Exposure to Financial controls/management.
• Experience in Change Delivery Management governance.
• Experience in Senior stakeholder management.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Vision.
• Strong analytical skills for quality assurance.
• Experience in Navigator, Reporting, and Dashboards.
• Understanding the Governance environment of the Banking industry.
• Experience working as a Change delivery PMO.
• Exposure to Internal and External audits on governance controls.

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

This role is based in Glasgow and London.

Purpose of the role

To support the organization in achieving its strategic objectives by identifying business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

Accountabilities

1. Identify and analyze business problems and client requirements requiring change within the organization.
2. Develop business requirements to address these problems and opportunities.
3. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
4. Support the creation of business cases to justify investment in proposed solutions.
5. Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
6. Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure timely and within-budget delivery.
7. Create operational and process designs to ensure solutions are delivered within scope.
8. Support change management activities, including developing a traceability matrix for successful implementation and embedding of solutions.
9. Contribute to setting strategy, driving requirements, and making recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements; escalate policy/procedure breaches.
10. If managing a team, define roles and responsibilities, plan for future needs, and oversee performance and pay decisions. Lead specialists to influence operations, balance strategic and tactical goals, and ensure budgets and schedules meet requirements.
11. If in a leadership role, demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive, including listening, inspiring, aligning, and developing others.
12. For individual contributors, act as subject matter experts, guide technical direction, lead multi-year assignments, and mentor less experienced team members.
13. Advise key stakeholders, including leadership teams, on functional and cross-functional impacts and alignment.
14. Manage and mitigate risks, supporting the control and governance agenda.
15. Demonstrate leadership and accountability in managing risks and strengthening controls.
16. Understand organizational functions to contribute to business goals.
17. Collaborate across areas to stay aligned with business activities and strategies.
18. Develop solutions through sophisticated analytical thinking, comparing complex alternatives, and applying in-depth analysis.
19. Build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, along with the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

About the company

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