Job Title: 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 career, 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:

This role is of a Business Analyst in the Cards Domain. The candidate will be working within a Scrum team as a Business Analyst and will be required to liaison with Business Stakeholders to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate features of a new functionality. The candidate will be someone who can serve as a Subject Matter Expert with good hold on business and functional domain knowledge.

What will you be doing?

• • Provide strong Business Analysis expertise in an agile frame work environment
  • Work as a liaison among project stakeholders to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate features for new functionality. Serves as the SME for business and functional domain knowledge; working closely with the Product Owner
  • Senior Stakeholder Management
  • Excellent Knowledge of industry/market trends in the Credit Card/Payments domain
  • Good understanding of Customer Journeys in the Credit Card domain
  • Supports the Project Manager as well as Technical Lead in the inception, epic creation, feature creation as well as Story writing to ensure clear scope and acceptance criteria in line with Agile delivery methodology
  • Create, groom and maintain the project feature and story backlog in addition to any changes to those requirements
  • Participates in joint design sessions to groom and document features and stories
  • Create feature and story backlogs that are clear and straightforward.
  • Assists the Tech Leads with flow diagrams, tables, mock-ups and other methods to ensure features and stories are presented without ambiguity when designing the solution.
  • Analyzing requirements; constructing workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications.
  • Improves systems by studying current practices
  • Recommends controls by identifying problems; writing improved procedures.
  • Maintains system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
  • Knowledge transfer as reference for users by writing and maintaining user documentation
  • Work with Product Owner to decompose features into stories
  • Identify dependencies across applications to support feature decomposition and story definition
  • Adhere to Agile methodology, ensure requirements documentation complies with Agile and audit standards.
  • Adhere to all Barclays, Barclaycard, Barclaycard US and Technology standards, policies and governance practices.
  • Contributes to and use best practices and standards including BCUS Values & Behaviours.

What we're looking for:

• Excellent written and oral communication
• Extensive experience in financial services or highly regulated industry
• 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst or other similar role and out of which at least 2 years in Credit Card /Payments domain
• Ability to understand, analyze & document complex processes, features and stories
• Past development experience in Java will be strongly preferred
• Self-driven and proactive. Willing to work late-hours to ensure more overlap with US counterpart for ensuring healthy backlog
• Knowledge of software design
• Knowledge of software development processes
• Knowledge of software maintenance processes
• Excellent organizational, problem solving and analytical abilities
• Familiarity with Scrum techniques and Agile methodology
• Working in distributed Agile environment
• Own the e2e Traceability of Requirements
• Worked on Tools that are used for Capturing Requirements in Agile(Jira, Rally etc)
• Should have the skills to derive multiple User Stories from Epics to ensure that all scenarios are covered
• Ability to demonstrate "What-not-How" approach in whilst communicating objectives and purpose
• Ability to align with other roles in the team seamlessly
• Ability to understand the requirements and communicate /disseminate the same effectively to multiple stakeholders
• Ability to get involved in the detail whilst maintaining the big picture
• Comfortable in decomposing large pieces of work into smaller chunks (by creating Epics/User Stories) that is understood by the team
• Comfortable in working in a highly collaborative working environment with remote Product Owner and Business team
• Ensures that all requirements support the delivery of business value by keeping customer focus, fulfills goals and objectives of the Program
• Facilitate scope prioritization with the Product Owner/s and Business and ability to communicate rationale
• Ability to contribute to estimation in Agile World
• Responsible for keeping the requirements backlog up-to-date
• Performs just-enough analysis to enable development work, and to reduce rework and overhead ( Work hand in hand with the Dev/ QA teams to ensure that the Sprint targets are met)
• Synthesizes complex sets of information to provide clarity and understanding to the Dev/QA team
• Understands a problem enough to determine cause and provide appropriate solutions
• Understands and defines requirements from a business and customer/user perspective
• Understands how to implement the delivery of a product or an application
• Understands the big picture and works with the team to understand concepts

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.