Business Analyst

Job description

Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Northampton

The primary function for the Payments Technology Tower is to support the Barclaycard Payment Solutions (BPS) business and in doing so running payment transactions for 30% of the UK high street, adding business value by leveraging technology solutions and payments domain / industry knowledge. The tower also operates across Barclaycard and the wider bank providing payment solutions where the other business units are acting as a merchant or in the operation of authorisations and settlement routing.

What will you be doing?

· To identify, quantify, plan and control all business design and analysis related activity on change projects in order to support the high performance delivery of change projects and ensuring business objectives are met.
· Design : As part of the delivery of business change, the Business Design Analyst will
· Perform business design and business analysis functions on projects
· Engage with business-side clients early in the change project in order to:
· Produce clear sets of business requirements to inform work in the project design phase
· Develop and explore innovative options to address business requirements
· Support business case development in support of solution design
· Oversee the delivery of pragmatic business and operational readiness solutions which maximise benefits while achieving the desired business outcomes
· Articulate full and end to end impacts on BAU processes resulting from technology and business change
· Assess and design new business change processes, systems, products and services on a change project
· Comfortable with ambiguity and actively drives requirements by use of expert facilitation skills to elicit requirements
· Plan Change : Ensure all governance, risk management, controls and compliance requirements are considered during development of requirements and designs. Support project sizing activities.
· Manage Change : Develop and implement new business change processes, systems, products and services on a change project. Provide an aggregate high level view of the combined proposed solutions and ensure alignment with the change solution. Manage interdependencies across projects/programmes and leverage synergies across projects/programmes to maximise return on investment. Review the to-be business process design to understand organisation/role impacts and create role descriptions for business process roles

What we're looking for:

· Strong understanding of business requirements gathering processes and experience in elicitation and documentation of requirements
· Understand the roles, responsibilities and value-add of Barclaycard Change Management Community
· Influencing / networking – developing internal and external business relationships and using own knowledge, skills and experience to influence others opinions and actions
· Understanding of how to scope activities around card schemes, card payment gateways, issuing/acquiring cycles, alternative payment methods and settlement systems
· Demonstrate use of wide range of visual modelling tools

Skills that will help you in the role:

· Professional communications – making oneself understood, sharing information, listening to and encouraging others to get involved
· Analysis, creativity and innovation – able to conceive original and practical solutions to complex and business critical problems
· Understand at a high level the interface between complex business needs and the complex legal and regulatory environment in which the business operates
· Ability to juggle priorities, multi- task and flawlessly execute at speed
· Sound commercial judgment and overall understanding of the Financial Services Industry, particularly the business impact of the regulatory environment
· Understand and comply with the requirements of Strategic Change Execution Board Standard, Group Change Governance framework and Group mandated Business Change methods, standards and tools

Where will you be working?

Barclays Northampton is an operation of vast scale, with a huge influence and impact on the financial services industry and on the lives of millions of British people. Here, we process 18 million transactions worth more than £700 million every day, and make sure that 196 Barclaycard payments every second happen seamlessly. This couldn't be possible without the collaboration between all our teams – from tech, marketing, functions, and operations – and the global partnerships our Northampton colleagues have. Our environmentally friendly office is within 5 minutes of the local town, easily accessible from the M1, and we run frequent shuttle buses to and from Northampton train station.

Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.

Our Values

Everything we do is shaped by the five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. Our values inform the foundations of our relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how we measure and reward the performance of our colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

Our Diversity

We aim to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to our vision and goals.

Our Benefits

Our customers are unique. The same goes for our colleagues. That's why at Barclays we offer a range of benefits, allowing every colleague to choose the best options for their personal circumstances. These include a competitive salary and pension, health care and all the tools, technology and support to help you become the very best you can be. We are proud of our dynamic working options for colleagues. If you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with us.