Business Analyst

Business Analyst - EM Credit IT 

London

AVP

Department Overview

Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.  With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, we operate in over 50 countries and employ over 140,000 people. We provide large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Our clients also benefit from access to the breadth of expertise across Barclays.  We?re one of the largest financial services providers in the world, and are also engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate banking, and wealth and investment management.

FICC Technology (FICCIT) is a global technology organization that partners with a variety of businesses and functions across Barclays Group. The majority of the teams are front office facing and responsible for the development and support of trading, eCommerce, pricing and risk management applications. Several teams provide cross-asset technologies offered to the wider Barclays organization. FICC Technology employs developers, business analysts, project managers and application management resources across the globe, and is organized into business and function aligned teams.

Emerging Markets Technology supports local market business expansion and ensures the Emerging Market business requirements are delivered within the business-aligned application development teams. The Emerging Markets business provides market making, risk management and derivative solutions to investors in Emerging Markets worldwide, including Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Main Function

The EM Credit IT team requires a business analyst in London to be a key interface between the EEMEA Credit business and IT, as well as work with the teams business analysts in other regions.

Main Duties

Coordinate between Credit IT teams and Emerging Markets business users. Be involved with numerous projects concurrently. Understand the issues facing the business, and how projects within IT will affect the business.

Define requirements for projects driven by the EM business. This will involve understanding the business and the systems, analysing options, and proposing solutions to problems. Engaging with various stakeholders to gain consensus.

Person Requirements

Essential:

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Able to work with people at all levels and from all departments.

Influencing and negotiation skills.

Analytical, attention to detail. Good problem solving skills.

Organised, structured approach to work.

Comfortable working on multiple projects concurrently.

Able to work well under pressure, in an environment where priorities often change.

Experience defining and documenting requirements.

Delivery oriented.

Preferred:

Knowledge of credit products, e.g. CDS and corporate bonds.

Experience working closely with a trading desk.

Experience of querying databases using SQL.

Excel VBA or other programming experience.

Project management experience.

Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.  With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, we operate in over 50 countries and employ over 140,000 people.

We provide large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs. Our clients also benefit from access to the breadth of expertise across Barclays.  We’re one of the largest financial services providers in the world, and are also engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate banking, and wealth and investment management.

For further information about Barclays, please visit our website www.barclays.com

June 26, 2013 • Tags:  • Posted in: Financial

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