Avaloq Business Analyst

Job Title : Avaloq 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 Application BA team in Pune predominantly supports the International Private Bank business and operations teams situated in UK, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. This is an exciting opportunity to work with the latest Avaloq technology and its satellite interfaces to assist Barclay Wealth to expand further into these international areas

What will you be doing?
• Will be responsible for the delivery of quality business solutions across multiple software development projects.
• Use appropriate business analysis and change techniques to work with the business and technology teams to analyse and implement change to support business requirements
• Document the business requirements and facilitate business, internal IT and external suppliers' teams understanding of those requirements
• Validate technology designs and solutions against business requirements and complete appropriate traceability
• Liaise with project managers, designers and development teams (on-site and off-shore) to ensure that projects in progress are developed to deliver the business requirements.
• Ensure that knowledge and experience is shared through best practice, mentoring and leading.

What we're looking for:
• 4+ years of experience as Business Analyst in Wealth Management and Investment banking domain
• Excellent Ability to take ownership, co-ordinate and facilitate end to end requirements gathering
• Excellent ability to document business, functional and non-functional requirements, model business process and manage acceptance/signoff process
• Prepare agreed deliverables in line with standards, to meet agreed quality standards and timelines
• Work with the business to rapidly build the domain expertise and influence required to understand, and challenge business and functional requirement
• Quickly learn Avaloq and related applications.
• Quickly learn the Wealth Management and Investment Banking domain. Ability to perform end to end business requirement analysis.
• Provide functional support to testing, development teams as well as business users
• Review test scenarios and test cases and take part in defect analysis
• Coordinate UAT and Regression testing ensure timely sign-off.

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Working knowledge on any banking products. Experience with Avaloq or alternatively in other core banking solutions (e.g. Finacle, T24, BaNCS etc.)
• Software development lifecycle.
• Good to have working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Service Now and Agile.
• In depth knowledge of and proven track record in financial services industry working in complex business and architecture environment.
• Excellent overall knowledge of banking application and in depth knowledge of several of the functional modules like security trading, order management, settlement, corporate actions, credit, payments etc.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Masters or Bachelors Degree (preferably in Computer Science/Engineering)
• Hands on experience in application development experience, of Oracle PL/SQL in banking applications/ products (Avaloq knowledge would be an added advantage).
• Experience in large IT organisation working in a support environment, supporting mission critical complex systems utilizing a large number of technologies and heavy reliance on batch processing.

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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