Loan Business Analyst

Overview

Join us as a “Loan 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, skills to meet business requirement as well as job-specific skillsets.

To be successful as a “Loan Business Analyst", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications

• Loan IQ expertise — hands on experience across core modules (agency, bilateral, secondary trading), with the ability to translate business needs into functional designs leveraging Loan IQ functionality.
• Wholesale Lending domain knowledge — proven knowledge of syndicated lending and loan trading, with an understanding of the interactions and interdependencies across Operations, Risk, Finance and Treasury.
• Analysis — demonstrable experience of defining requirements (epics/features/stories) using a variety of analysis techniques and artefacts, contributing to the evaluation of solution options and end to end solutions collaborating across the business and functions.
• Liaison between Stakeholder business team and Technical team.
• Good understanding of design solutions to meet business requirements.
• Proficient in documentation. 
• Decision making and problem solving.
• Capturing and preparing business and functional requirements using structured analysis techniques.
• Facilitating business comprehension and sign-off of requirements documentation.
• Managing business interaction through iterative development and testing cycles.
• Providing test execution for Quality Assurance and Integration testing.
• Understanding of Critical data element and data lineage
• Data Reconciliation understanding.
• Minimum Qualification – bachelor’s degree.
  
  

• Agile delivery & tooling — experienced with Jira/Confluence, sprint ceremonies, and working with cross-functional pods to deliver complex business and technical change
• Data & integration awareness — familiarity with typical upstream/downstream interfaces for wholesale lending platforms
• Design Authority / risk & controls — awareness of the importance of design governance and traceability management, with a strong control mindset
  
  

This role will be based out of Chennai Or 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.
  
  

• 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.