Business Analyst Glasgow, Scotland
Job description
Business Analyst
Glasgow
As a Barclays Business Analyst, you will support the Consumer Risk, Finance and Treasury and Liquidity (CRFTL) portfolios and partner with programme managers, scrum masters and business stakeholders to elicit, analyse, document and communicate business requirements. For this role, your responsibilities will also include assessing stakeholder and technical requirements, reviewing solution options, presenting alternatives, and gaining stakeholder and IT consensus.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises 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 carer, 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.
• Collaborating with business & technology stakeholders to understand programme/project goals, current state business, process and technology architecture
- Working collaboratively and by oneself to elicit & document business requirements as basis for agreeing target state, delivery scope and solutioning options
- Initiating, formulating and presenting recommendations based on analysis in order to influence and negotiate the resolutions made by the Business/Product owners as relevant
- Examining problems and evaluating options in a logical and systematic way and ensuring robust supporting documentation
- Supporting dialogue related to options evaluation & decision making, and gaining stakeholder and technology consensus regarding the proposed business and IT solution
- Supplying analytical expertise as required into all delivery phases including initial scoping, solution design, development, test design, testing & business readiness
- Being a Key Contributor to the testing strategy, including definition of scenarios/ cases and hands-on testing as required
- Working with functional or business areas and SMEs to plan business adoptions, including migrations of users and / or transactions where applicable
What we’re looking for:
• Work experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner using Agile and Lean values and practices
- Involvement in working in an Agile team using Agile Central, JIRA, Confluence, etc to capture business requirements from Product Owners and produce actionable user stories
- Experience of working with a highly distributed team (multiple locations, and staff from vendors, consultant and contractors in addition to perm)
- Adept at using Microsoft Office products with some experience using other software packages relevant to BA work
• Excellent organisational skills and ability to multi-task in a highly pressurised support environment
- Recognised Agile qualification and/or recognised Business Analysis qualification
- Hands-on experience with data analysis and reconciliation tasks and tools (SQL, Qlik, etc.), and experience in reviewing & manipulating CSV, XML, JSON data
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar
Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.
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