Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Pune

About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

Risk and Control Objective
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do.

Working Flexibly

We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs. Whether you have family commitments or you're a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:
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.

Introduction:
The AVP Data Analyst will be responsible for leading a team of analysts working towards ensuring that the implementation of a number of Corporate Bank initiatives align with & adhere to the Corporate Strategy. The team will support stakeholders in understanding the nuances of the strategy while working with business & technical SMEs to clarify the scope & impacts of the initiatives. Applying a business domain lens to the requirements of each initiative is key.
What will you be doing?
Support the delivery CDS Strategy initiatives from Concept to Production, by owning Data Analysis activities ranging from Data Sourcing through to end user consumables. These encompass the following:
• End-to-end requirements management and traceability, both functional and non-functional
• Requirements elicitation and documentation, using User Stories and E2E Diagrams
• Identification & verification of source data origination - together with assessing overlapping & distinct data elements.
• Identify, quantify, plan and control all business design and analysis related activity on change projects.
• Becoming knowledgeable in data sources and expected outputs in specific data domains - e.g. payments
• Supporting the programme & project leads towards achieving the goals of the initiatives.
• Able to performance manage data analysts and direct and lead on department strategy.
• Co-ordinate workloads across multiple data streams.
• Identify and align commercials associated with change in the bank.
• Own and manage requirement related aspects of the change delivery life cycle from inception, solution design through to implementation and post implementation support.
• Work in-line with overall Barclays strategy across Technology delivery and Business operations change
• Identify, analyse, manage and monitor relationships with and between stakeholders.
• Manage multiple work streams of project activity.
• Impact analysis, both business and technical, working closely with architects and solution designers
• Coordination of and hands-on assistance with different testing phases including User Acceptance Testing and Live proving
• Work as a liaison among project stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate features for new functionality.
• Serves as the SME for business and functional domain knowledge, working closely with the Product Owner
• Create, groom and maintain the project feature and story backlog in addition to any changes to those requirements.
• Participates in joint design sessions to groom and document features and stories. Create feature and story backlogs that are clear and straightforward.
• Manage end-to-end requirement & requirement delivery quality of high complexity, drawing on analytical skills to ensure the excellent execution across multi-discipline platform teams.
• Support broad conceptual technical solutions, drawing upon expertise within the team and working closely with the Enterprise, Data and Solutions Architects
• Provide expertise and continuity across both the business solution and technical solution.
Dependency management
• Raise awareness to Programme & Project Managers and analysis leads of dependencies outside of area of responsibility.
Delivering intended outcomes
• Adapt to changing requirements & priorities and changing course as necessary.
Governance Standards
• Adhere to Group Change control and governance standards, recording and reporting data in the right way.

What we're looking for:
• Advanced MS PowerPoint
• Advanced MS Excel
• JIRA / Confluence
• Minimum qualification - Bachelors / Master

Skills that will help you in the role:
• SQL
• R/Python knowledge an advantage

Where will you be working?
Pune

Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more - as a professional, and as a person. 'Be More @ Barclays' represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It's the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.
Purpose, Values and Mindset

We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.

Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.

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