Business Analyst

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To support the bank's decision-making processes by providing timely, accurate, and insightful information through designing, developing, and maintaining management reports, compelling visualisations and dashboards that effectively communicate key performance indicators (KPIs), data insights and trends across various business units.

Accountabilities

Design and development of comprehensive reports and dashboards utilisng best practices in data visualisation principles and design aesthetics to ensure clarity, accuracy, and accessibility.

Design, development and implementation of automated report generation processes and visualisation methodologies for improved efficiency and timeliness.

Identification and analysis of business requirements to define report content and format.

Maintenance and updating of existing reports and dashboards to reflect changing business needs, including co-ordination of reporting template releases and related administrative tasks.

Development of robust processes & controls for collating input data, performing exploratory data analysis & data cleansing and seeking signoffs as required.

Engagement with stakeholders as needed to ensure up to date data is incorporated into reporting and visualisations.

Vice President Expectations

• •To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• •If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• •If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• •OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• •Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• •Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• •Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• •Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• •Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• •Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• •Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• •Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.

Join us as a "Business Analyst" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, skills to meet business requirement as well as job-specific skillsets.

To be successful as a "Business Analyst", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• •Senior data-platform leader with proven experience defining strategy, architecture and delivery roadmaps for enterprise analytics platforms•
• •Strong experience building cloud-native lakehouse and data-warehouse solutions using AWS, Databricks and Snowflake.
• •Prior hands-on expertise, with deep knowledge of Kafka, Spark/PySpark, ETL/ELT, APIs and batch/real-time data pipelines.
• •Strong background in data modelling and governed data products, including conceptual, logical and physical models, MDM, reference data, data quality, lineage and reconciliation.
• •Functional expertise in liquidity, payments, treasury and cash management, with the ability to translate business and regulatory needs into a trusted liquidity analytics platform.
• •Proven leadership across business, architecture, engineering, risk, operations and data-governance teams, with strong senior-stakeholder influence.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• •Experience delivering liquidity, treasury analytics, payments or cash-management platforms within global financial services.
• •Knowledge of Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Snowflake capabilities, relevant AWS data services and medallion or data-mesh architectures.
• •Experience with DataOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, and legacy-platform migration.
• •Understanding of advanced analytics, AI/ML, forecasting, anomaly detection and scenario analysis for liquidity use cases.
• •Relevant cloud, Databricks, Snowflake, data-architecture or governance certifications.

This role is based out of Pune.