PC Change Management- AVP 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
The Finance department covers Product and Financial control. Both Product and Financial Control are jointly responsible for the integrity of the financial records of Barclays.
Main Function
The Business Analyst will focus on the Business Requirements, User Acceptance Test and implementation phases of cross asset Product Control projects.
The team will collaborate with Infrastructure colleagues on various initiatives aimed at improving product processes. The team will be focusing on implementation of a strategic daily PL and Balance Sheet substantiation system along with various short term and medium term cross asset class projects.
Main Duties
The key activities for the Business Analyst for this project will be:
- Working with the user representatives to determine business requirements, where appropriate considers alternative methods of resolving business issues. This must involve a thorough consideration of all implications of these requirements to the business, including the identification of any potential issues or functional omissions.
- Fully documenting the analysis carried out, (this may include for example the production of context diagrams, interaction diagrams, use cases, scenarios and object models). The business analyst must be able to fully explain all diagrams and models to the business representative and end user, ensuring that they match the business requirements.
- Documenting and managing all business issues arising from requirements gathering, prioritising and then progressing to resolution.
- Working with IT groups to convert requirements into solutions.
- Working with user team manager on other application components to agree the boundaries of responsibility of each component.
- Providing business expertise to development staff, clarifying algorithms etc. as required.
- Assisting in the preparation and execution of user acceptance testing.
- Assisting the business representatives in developing user procedures and training packs.
- Assist in the implementation of Tactical and Strategic solutions across the Business Areas in the U.S.
- Identifying analysis and design issues/risks on a timely basis and escalating to the development manager as appropriate.
As in all business analysis roles, a high degree of flexibility is required. Projects sometimes involve travel and/or long hours at critical stages in the lifecycle.