Financial Control – Change Management – Analyst recruitment
Company 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.
For further information about Barclays, please visit our website www.barclays.com.
It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.
Department Overview
Our Finance Division is comprised of the following groups: Financial Control, Product Control, Financial Decision Support, and Tax. All areas allow you to build a thorough understanding of our business and enable you to add value in the reporting and analysis of financial information. Finance is an exciting area as the division supports a variety of products in a constantly changing marketplace.
Financial Control oversees the financial records and reporting of our business activity. Providing accurate information, they enable us to react to opportunities and focus on critical business issues. Financial Control also provides information to senior management, as well as external fiscal parties.
The individual is responsible for supporting US Finance Change Management initiatives across Product, Finance and Regulatory Control. These include the design build of technology implementations and the development of new business processes.
Main Duties
- Working directly with Finance teams to determine and document business requirements and to prioritize them for system development.
- Defining functional requirements, which reflect the business requirements and developing approaches to enable them to be built on technology solutions or to be satisfied elsewhere. This includes collaborating with IT groups to convert requirements into solutions that can be built.
- Developing testing approaches and scripts to test software solutions.
- Performing functional tests of newly built software solutions and guiding end user testing of these systems.
- Identifying, documenting and escalating as appropriate issues that may arise during the various stages of the project lifecycle (i.e. from analysis and design through to build and deployment).
- Assist the business area in developing user procedures, process documentation to ensure smooth integration of new systems functionality into Business As Usual processes.