Wholesale Lending Business Analyst

Barclays; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Wholesale Lending Business Analyst where you will deliver key strategic initiatives, engage with stakeholders, and manage end-to-end delivery. The role requires strong expertise in Loan IQ, excellent communication skills, and the ability to lead analysis sessions, ensuring process optimization and effective banking operations.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Loan IQ is essential.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst is required.
• Ability to self-organise and lead analysis sessions.

Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth analysis for strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with technology teams for business needs.
• Develop and implement strategies for banking operations.

Skills

Business Analysis

Stakeholder Engagement

Data Analysis

Clear Communication

Risk Management

Tools

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

Join us as a Wholesale Lending Business Analyst at Barclays, where you’ll be responsible for delivering key pieces of work across strategic initiatives within the Wholesale Lending function initially supporting our Loan IQ Migration Programme. You will carry out in-depth analysis of assigned topics, engage with stakeholders to gather and refine business requirements and lead stakeholder calls where needed to drive alignment and understanding. The role requires close collaboration with technology teams to identify and communicate business needs, reviewing data to assess volumes and operational trends, and ensure that requirements are clearly documented and formally signed off. You will support end-to-end delivery by conducting detailed process mapping, preparing comprehensive documentation, and taking a leading role in bringing together all deliverables.

To be successful as a Wholesale Lending Business Analyst, you should have:

• Strong subject matter expertise in Loan IQ.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst, with the ability to undertake detailed analysis (this is not a Project Manager role).
• Experience in writing clear business requirements and acceptance criteria, familiarity with Confluence and JIRA is desirable.
• Ability to self-organise and lead analysis sessions with multiple stakeholders, driving topics from analysis and design through to scripting and execution.
• Confidence in troubleshooting and triaging issues during testing phases.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

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 is hybrid and based in London.

Purpose of the role

To collaborate with stakeholders and use data and MI to identify process optimisation opportunities for capacity creation in relevant business areas.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of strategies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of banking operations, using data led insights.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve performance & optimisation efficiency and effectiveness.
• Development of reports and presentations on performance & optimisation and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments, and collaboration with stakeholders across the bank to provide recommendations for change and improvement within performance and optimisation processes.
• Development and implementation of analytics and reporting performance & optimisation to mitigate risks and maintain efficient operations.
• Identification of capacity creation in operations using data and Management Information.

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.