Join Barclays as a Business Analyst where you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering a high-profile wholesale lending transformation. As part of the Loan IQ Project, you'll sit within the technology BA space while evolving toward a more functional, end-to-end role, working closely with the business to define, challenge, and refine requirements, translate them into clear user stories, and support delivery from concept through to implementation. You'll get exposure far beyond pure technology, spanning process design, stakeholder management, and elements of delivery ownership. This is an opportunity for an inquisitive, confident self-starter who isn't afraid to challenge, juggle multiple priorities, and grow their skillset in a supportive environment where attitude matters as much as experience.
To be successful in this role, you will need the following:
* Ability to elicit, analyse, and document requirements across a wide range of stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment with business objectives.
* Strong analytical mindset with the capability to identify root causes, develop effective solutions, and clearly communicate and manage the resolution process.
* Confident in challenging requirements and proposed solutions constructively, building strong relationships while driving high standards and continuous improvement.
Some other highly valued skills include:
* Experience in Wholesale Lending, including knowledge of loan trading, syndication, and corporate lending.
* Ability to capture, analyse, and document end-to-end processes clearly and accurately, identifying opportunities for optimisation and improved efficiency.
* Strong relationship building skills with the confidence to engage, influence, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
The successful candidate will be based in Knutsford (Radbroke Hall).
Purpose of the role
To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.
Accountabilities
* Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
* Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
* Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
* Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
* Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
* Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
* Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
* Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
* Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions business divisions.
* Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
* Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
* Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
* Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
* Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
* Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
* Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc.) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
* Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
* Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.