VP, Business Analyst, Global Payments Utility
About Barclays
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
Global Payment Utility – Strategic Change
- Be the functional 'expert' on payments business and functional requirements
- To work with current operational teams and business SME's to extract key information to produce the Global Payments (GPU) business requirements
- Support the target operating model (TOM) team in the production of the process elements of the TOM
- Define and deliver the Business requirements for the Global payment Utility
- Be an expert in Business Analysis methodologies and ensure that all BAs adhere to policies and standards
- Define the definition of the approach to gathering the requirements (structure, format, level of detail, tools methodology used)
- Shape and continuously improve BA processes
- QA/ spot-check own and other BA work
- Work within the System Configuration Team whose responsibility will be to define the set up required for the Global Payment Utility.
- Deliver the Functional Requirements Documents and related Functional Solution Documents – based on business requirements
- Support the testing team during functional and UAT testing
- Manage the implementation of project streams into live production.
Main Accountabilities
- Understand the current Barclays Payments operations (As-is) and ensure this is reflected into the 'to-be' process
- Ensures understanding of the Bank and GPU strategy, and priorities within the team
- Establish and own the process for assessing the impact of requirement changes and for managing changes to requirements
- Ensure requirements are working towards common templates, methodologies and standards
- Deliver theGPU business requirements and the maintenance and version control of those requirements within an appropriate repository
- DeliverFunctional Requirement documents and the related Functional Solution Documents.
- Input to the technical designs and the definition of the system configuration for Global Payments Utility.
- Provide support to the implementation strategy of the overall programme based on functional expertise.
- Provide support to the operations delivery work-stream in terms of the training programmes and support during the functional / operational training sessions
- Provide support and input too the overall definition of the functional and UAT test scripts and subsequent execution
- Participate in management team meetings and provide advice regarding key impact of new/changed requirements, as well as overall performance of the E2E process.
- Maintains detailed awareness of, takes fully into account as necessary, and promotes throughout the organisation, any relevant statutory, internal or external regulations, standards and codes of good practice. Contributes to the definition of such regulations, standards and codes.
- Complies with architectural standards, quality standards and policies.
Business Knowledge
- Has an extensive knowledge of Payments / Banking(CHAPS / BACS)
Functional Analysis (Business)
- Understands concepts of major activities associated with functional analysis:
- Is able to articulate and capture business requirements and processes within a structured methodology
Internal and External IT Environment
- Comprehensive understanding of the internal and external environment:
- Can describe the major roles and responsibilities of the IT function
- Can identify key activities performed by IT professionals and managers and key departments/functions
- Understands the basic concepts and benefits of the technology strategy
- Understanding of technical solutions (Middleware / MQ Series) preferable
Product and Vendor Evaluation
- Understands and able to input to and positively influence the process for product and vendor evaluation and selection:
Control
- Knows what should be communicated, when, and to whom; knows who could help make a good decision; experienced at implementing or managing risk management processes and tools; actively seeks ways to understand, mitigate or reduce risks, drawing on expert advice, risk assessment, and management reports;
Delivery
- Has estimated, planned and organised own tasks using project management tools and in collaboration with other streams and has proven experience of delivering requirements for large programmes within challenging time-scales.
Has driven the development of documentation;
Has identified customer needs, monitored and reported on the service level and taken action to solve service level issues;
Has documented and analysed alternative business and operational solutions, risks and benefits, and obtained decision on resolution
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential
- 8 years + of Business Analysis preferably within Payments programmes
- Expertise of structured BA Methodologies and tools – e.g. RUP, UML, Requisite Pro, Calibre
- Up to date with developments in individual area of expertise and will be expected to keep abreast of emerging technologies and potential for application within the Bank.
- Business Analysis as a core competence within payments area (Preferable with specific Fundtech knowledge)
Preferred
- Educated to Degree/MBA level to cope with the intellectual demands of the role
- Process Management
- Experience of a complex financial services environment
- Formal external qualification/accreditation in business analysis disciplines
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