Business Analyst - Financial Crime (London)

Job description

Payments Technology Change
The Payments Technology Change team is part of the wider Technology Change team within the Barclays Corporate & International business (BC&I). The department is focused on the delivery of business and technological change for the payment processing function and numbers in excess of 500 heads. Although part of BC&I, Payments Technology Change serves stakeholders from across the Barclays Group.

Role Purpose
Programme Blue was initiated to deliver an enhanced Corporate Bank offering for global corporate clients in Europe and to ensure continuity of service for key client groups as Barclays disposed of non-core businesses in Europe. Our goal is delivery of a highly digitised, comprehensive banking platform (covering cash, trade and debt) across Western Europe and the UK, which will provide a consistent experience and offering across all geographies. We are two years into a multi-year delivery, which is focused on both existing markets such as France, Ireland and Germany, and also potential new markets including Luxembourg, Belgium and The Netherlands.

· This role provides a unique opportunity for an ambitious individual to take ownership of the end to end Financial Crime function as part of The Barclays Corporate Bank roll out across Europe . This will require the management of multiple streams of work simultaneously including establishing a strategic Target Operating Model plus business requirements definition and prioritisation. This position offers exciting development opportunities for any individual wishing to build upon their core Business Analysis skillset. The incumbent will be provided with excellent support in order to gain in-depth knowledge of key Programme architecture and any existing operating models.

Key Accountabilities

· Establishing a strategic Target Operating Model for the Financial Crime function.
· Co-ordinate stakeholders to agree operational flows at a detailed level.
· Manage the business requirement definition and prioritisation process in conjunction with key business stakeholders
· Translate requirements in sufficient detail to enable component development and delivery
· Act to facilitate conversations between key stakeholders to identify alternate business solutions for issues/challenges that have arisen
· Provide guidance to business and component teams on future country migrations and supporting data analysis
· Work closely with Business, Product, Test, Change, Component and Architecture teams to provide guidance
· Ensure the provision of post implementation support as required by the business.
· Manage stakeholder relationships between the demand (business) and suppliers (IT) around constraints and limitations of solutions. This includes scope of delivery per component release
· Help to establishment current “As Is” versus “To Be” operating models, identifying gaps where appropriate.
· Provide guidance and co-ordination for test teams to enable signoff of developed functionality including approval of test scenarios and scripts

Technical Skills:

· You will be familiar with some of the following primary areas;
· AML (Anti Money Laundering) – Transaction Monitoring as a concept i.e. functionality of Transaction Monitoring tools, alerting creation and escalation, BOE and OFAC watchlists.
· Client Screening as a concept i.e. functionality of screening tools, watchlists (PEP's and Related Party Information).
· Operational processes supporting these areas.
· You may be familiar with the following secondary areas upon which the Financial Crime function has a dependency;
· KYC (Risk, Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) indicators)
· Payment Screening
· Microsoft Office products

Person Specification

· Organised and well structured
· Own and deliver tasks confidently and proactively
· A team player who will work collaboratively with a diverse group of people and who acts to breaks down barriers and promote team wellbeing
· Demonstrate a strong ability to identify key regulatory, operational and project risks and .manage associated stakeholder expectations.
· Embrace new challenges and be willing to learn new skills to overcome these challenges
· Considerable ability to ‘hit the ground running' in an unfamiliar environment
· Be able to communicate clearly both verbally and in written form on the status and progress of allocated activities
· Delivery & Project Management - Understands essential concepts and practices of delivery requirements.
· Experience of working in a business or change capacity
· Practical experience within the Financial Crime domain as highlighted within the “Technical Skills” section.
· Understanding of complex operational processes
· Formal qualifications (probably a relevant specialist honours degree in IT / business)

Knowledge and Expertise:

· Understands Investment or Corporate Banking domain
· Understands essential concepts related to large project implementations
· Knowledge/familiarisation of Agile methodologies and principles an advantage

Risk and Control Objective
All Barclays colleagues have to ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards