Business Analyst

Company: Barclays
Location: Athens
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

BUSINESS ANALYSTAs a Barclays Business Analyst, you will be working the global Control Room within Compliance to transform the way restrictions are applied at Barclays. Technology will be working with the business to transform how financial instruments (also known as Securities) are used to prohibit activities for Trading and Non-Trading Business Functions/Areas/Lines. The future restriction operating model will be constructed to become more targeted and specific to increase the controls for various regulatory regimes to prevent under and over restriction.Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.WORKING FLEXIBLYWe're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes 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 career, 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.We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We're flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

• You will be delivering business analysis specifically for the Compliance of Banking and Research focused business and technology outcomes
• You will be managing the business analysis process from project initiation to completion of early life support in production
• You will be responsible for performing the internal environment analysis to understand that strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for the various workstreams--
• You will be understanding problem statements and opportunities from the Control Room and translate them into clear business needs which will be presented in the form of requirements--
• You will be responsible for producing requirements of an exceptional standard into general, technical, functional and non-functional categories--
• You will be responsible for working with the system, application, product and service development team comprising of programme managers, business analysts, and developers
• Working on a range of delivery initiatives that operate in Agile and Waterfall environments using the Software Development Lifecycles (SDLC)WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR:
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) from the International institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)--
  • Agile Analysis Certification (AAC) from International institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
  • Experience of working with firm wide Compliance function in Banking / Financial Services --
  • Computer Science / Technology DegreeSKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:
    • Practical experience of using a collection of Business Analysis tools - Microsoft Visio, Balsamiq, Confluence, Jira--
    • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and/or Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance--
    • Domain knowledge of Compliance policies applicable to Corporate and Investment Bank, Markets and Research--
    • Project management experienceWHERE WILL YOU BE WORKING?At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany--we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live.--We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will--redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany,--you'll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

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