Cross Asset Business Analyst

Join us as a " Cross Asset Business Analyst " at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, Business analysis skills as well as job-specific skillsets.

To be successful as a " Cross Asset Business Analyst", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Knowledge of full cycle Investment Bank trading concepts. Understanding of a front-to-back stack in a trading environment.
• Business analysis skills and development lifecycle experience, working within IT, with proven delivery record and an ability to work in a demanding environment.
• Ease in working with matrixed and global environments. A proactive attitude towards problem solving and willingness to be a hands-on technologist.
• Prior experience as a BA with strong knowledge of how projects are run and managed in both waterfall and agile based environments.
• Extensive experience in Financial markets, especially related to trade capture and end to end trade booking flows. Knowledge of various products, business lines and trading concepts.
• Ability to collaborate and work in a team-based work environment
• Detailed oriented and organized with clear written and verbal communication skills, appropriate to a given audience, (business, technical, functional, etc.)
• Must be a self-starter who is comfortable working in a very dynamic environment, with rapidly changing priorities and under little supervision
• Superior analytic and problem solving skills – ability to structure and scope complex problems, synthesize feedback, develop insights and recommendations.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Strong time management and ability to coordinate with various teams to action items
• Ability to build ongoing work relationships across locations and teams
• Experience with MS Visio, Project, Excel, Word, SharePoint, JIRA as well knowledge sharing tools (e.g. Confluence wiki.
• Background in Macro products and trade capture technology.

This role will be based out of Pune.

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders 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.