Lead Business Analyst

Barclays UK; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Barclays as a Lead Business Analyst in Glasgow, where you'll drive the digitization agenda within Transaction Monitoring. Collaborate with stakeholders, manage change, and utilize your analytical skills to enhance financial services. Experience in AML and solid SQL skills are essential for success in this role, which offers a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in gathering Anti-Money Laundering requirements.
• Solid SQL skills to support Business Analysis activities.

Responsibilities

• Partnering with TM Product Owners and stakeholders for Business Analysis activities.
• Managing and prioritising the Change backlog with Financial Crime Team.

Skills

SQL

Communication

Job description

As a Barclays Lead Business Analyst, you will have an exciting opportunity to join Transaction Monitoring team within Wholesale Onboarding Business area. You will be instrumental in implementing the digitization agenda across the course of daily business, financial institutions have the inherent ability and responsibility to comprehensively understand each of their customers, and their expected transactional behaviour.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?
• Partnering with TM Product Owners in Financial Crime, as well as wider stakeholder groups, in performing the Business Analysis activities for SAM8 solutions
• Working closely with stakeholders across the business and form solid working relationships through meticulous use of workshops and working groups
• Writing detailed business and integration documents using concise documentation methods aligned with both Agile and Waterfall project methodologies
• Applying analytical skills and knowledge to challenge any submitted requirements and prioritise them accordingly with the business
• Working closely with developers, test team, users, and delivery managers to develop the design and ensure the solution meets business requirements
• Managing and prioritising the Change backlog working closely with Financial Crime Team and Development Teams
• Presenting demos of the product to a variety of stakeholders incorporating any feedback, independently handling any questions or concerns that arise
• Leading and facilitating the Change Approval Board handling any additional requirements that arise, drafting CRs on behalf of the business and liaising with the project team

What we’re looking for:
• Experience of gathering Anti-Money Laundering requirements and/or defining business processes within Financial Services
• Experience of implementation and management of service sustainability requirements of AML Technology Products like SAM8, SAM9/ActOne, Mantas
• Solid SQL skills to support any Business Analysis activities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a sound record of experience in successfully building relationships

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Exposure to transaction monitoring or AML within a financial services environment
• Experience of working with a risk-based approach
• Experience in the end-to-end management of change
• Knowledge of transaction monitoring solutions

Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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