Job Description

Job Totle : Business Analyst Location: Pune
About Barclays Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.
Risk and Control Objective 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.
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. Introduction: To support the Demand Manager to drive the CDS Data Engineering agenda. This involves the collation, monitoring and regular review of demand for all key portfolio and programme prioritisation, forecasting, financial planning, understanding the short- and long-term P&L impact of all commercial decisions, and making recommendations to the business on best ways to optimise commercial performance.

• Maintain a backlog, plan and manage demand of multiple projects and work streams for key CDS platforms and services
• Nurture the relationship with Product Owners, Portfolio Management and the Transaction Cycle Leads.
• Help resolve issues / blockers at every stage through to resolution for Medium Term Planning (MTP) funding
• Own the MTP status report and accuracy of the facts, ensuring consistency across reporting and automating where possible
• Manage financial & resource forecasts as well as actuals against the budget for MTP providing inputs to management meeting reporting
• Drives the team to ensure KPI scores are maintained / changes managed in line with expectations
• Ensure wider organisation is engaged & aligned to feature team needs, including timely / pre-emptive governance, approvals, dispensations
• Deliver Ways of Working and KPI training across all locations for CDS

What will you be doing?

• Oversee demand backlog management and portfolio KPI performance to drive strategy recommendations
• Understand in depth all P&L drivers, and the impact of different financial levers for the CDS MTP work stack for demand
• Gain in-depth knowledge of how the business and products work in order to suggest sound recommendations to help drive strategic direction
• Business case definition and benefits management for MTP planning and monitoring
• Manage project governance and KPIs
• Ensure financial forecasting and budget management is up to date and reporting is automated
• Ensure resource management of business and technical project team resources is tracked and up to date
• Monitor performance vs. MTP and revised outlooks, identifying and communicating risks and putting forward recommendations to bring portfolio performance back on track.
• Maintain regular updates and feed into finance, based on latest financial risks and opportunities

What we’re looking for:

• Excellent communication skills
• Strong evidence of stakeholder management at all levels
• Strong evidence of following a controlled project management methodology
• Ability to motivate business analysts and other project team members, in a geographically dispersed environment
• Experience in overseeing performance of products or projects with a high level of regulatory scrutiny
• Experience of working effectively in a multi-function matrix environment
• Strong financial and analytical skills

Skills that will help you in the role

• APM, PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent Project Management qualification, Agile Project Management, Programme Management, Product Owner, Business analysis or Scrum Master training or qualifications
• Experience of working in an agile project team
• Experience in Financial Services project delivery
• Experience working with tools used to support MI and BI production such as Excel (incl. pivot tables), Tableau, SAS or similar
• Experience in working in functions requiring similar skills, for example: portfolio management, finance, analytical or reporting roles, financially-focused control roles, credit risk oversight

Where will you be working? Pune
Be More at Barclays At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are. Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details. Purpose, Values and Mindset
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term. Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Respect We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution. Integrity We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do. Service We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do. Excellence We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference. Stewardship We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure. Challenge Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints. Drive Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.