Data Management Business Analyst

Description:

Data Management Business Analyst
Glasgow 

As a Barclays Business Analysts, you will have an exciting chance to co-ordinate, plan and perform analysis tasks for one or more components of a programme and /or transaction cycle business process and / or specialist applications. You will have a unique opportunity to act as a reviewer and quality gate for analysis output, ensuring root cause is addressed and the right design delivered for user requirements.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. 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.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?
•    Supporting the Lead Business Analyst /Project Manager, helping articulate and presenting effective requirement proposals within a project or initiative
•    Providing face off to one or more business areas/SME's and understand high level requirements
•    Validating and documenting business requirements in either Business Requirement Documents or user/feature stories depending on the change methodology 
•    Participating in the design process co-ordinated by the programme management team, from design approval to functional design completion 
•    Owning the delivery of the work assigned and driving it to successful completion
•    Working proactively with stakeholders
•    Supporting development of the test strategy, plan and test cases working in conjunction with the business, testing and development teams
•    Being responsible for liaising with Tech for reported defects and resolving them to closure

What we’re looking for:
•    Expertise in reading/writing SQL, XML for querying and analysis
•    Expertise in Microsoft app such as Excel, Visio, JIRA scrum boards, Confluence
•    Experience as a Business Analyst working on medium to large scale change initiatives within an investment bank

Skills that will help you in the role:
•    Hands on experience with Data Visualisation tools such as QlikView, Tableau, etc
•    Broad knowledge and understanding of financial industry products and offerings, experience with Risk, Finance and Treasury functions would be advantageous
•    Good understanding of project delivery methodologies including the software development lifecycle and the role of the business analysts in these contexts

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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