Barclays UK Jobs – Finance Business Analyst

About the job

Senior Finance Business Analyst

As a Barclays Senior Finance Business Analyst, you’ll be responsible for leading business analysis for major data and integration programmes across Consumer Finance. Aligned with other Development Leads and SMEs, you’ll review business requirements and produce system requirements/functional specs/technical specs. As an integral part of development team, you’ll provide guidance to developers on required features, clearly define system requirements and associated acceptance criteria.

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.

This opportunity is open to flexible working arrangements. Such as working from home, flexible or compressed hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please apply and discuss this with us during the hiring process.

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Providing documentation of high-level and detailed technical design to enable development teams to successfully deliver business outcomes
• Engaging with business stakeholders for analysis and High level design of the granular trial balance data processing components
• Analysing business requirements to identify technology changes required to meet desired outcomes
• Providing analysis using data analytical tools to identify quality issues, patterns and inform technical solution design
• Understanding and acting according to additional firm wide Programs & Technology Business Landscape changes, which are expected to impact delivery of the solution
• Being in charge of coordination of, and hands-on assistance with, User Acceptance Testing

What We’re Looking For

• Finance background and experience detailing requirements from Finance SMEs
• Exceptional experience with complex system integration and excellent understanding of the full SDLC lifecycle including both Waterfall, Agile and DevOps methodologies
• Experience with creating contextual diagrams to show interfaces, data flows, use cases and high-level processes
• Ensures constant high quality of deliverables

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Understanding of Finance, Risk & Treasury will be beneficial
• Control minded, with ability to identify risks, define controls
• Experience in delivering Finance Transformation programmes

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.