Job Location: New York, NY
Senior Business Analyst
New York City
As a Barclays Senior Business Analyst, you will manage the delivery of critical projects for the US Cash Equities Markets business (Front Office Trading). Your new team provides coverage for Cash and Prime business (Portfolio, Single Stock and Electronic trading). Our team belongs to the Cash Equities area and provides coverage for Cash and Prime business (Portfolio, Single Stock and Electronic trading). We partner closely with the heads of the businesses in order to deliver market leading platforms to meet our clients’ needs.
Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We’ve helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.
It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes 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, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month, or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
What will you be doing?
- You will serve as a Business Analyst and also Project Manager, duties include execution workflows, order management, exchange, and client connectivity
- You will be taking full ownership and in-depth knowledge of application functionality required to train and on-board new users in workings of equities applications
- Writing business and integration requirements documents using the Confluence/Wiki approach aligning Agile / sprint-based development methodology
- Creating detailed GUI mock-ups and other visual requirements to be presented alongside user requirements to development teams and key stakeholders
- Working with software development teams to ensure user requirements are clearly understood and developed as specified in the documentation
- Participating in development staff planning as they write functional and design specifications to govern field, message, and user interface level details
- You will be gathering development and testing estimates and including these in formal project plans, in addition, you will work on release planning of projects
- You will conduct functional testing and perform user acceptance testing (UAT), you will also document use-cases regarding regression test suite
What we’re looking for:
- Leadership and interpersonal skills are required, as this role involves collaboration with Front Office, Middle Office/Operations, Compliance and Technology teams
- This role will require clear communication, proven decision making, excellent analytical skills and evaluative judgement
- The candidate will have experience in project management, and solving complex problems, duties also include regulatory reporting obligations and project financials
- You must have an extremely high attention to detail, overall, should be confident, enthusiastic, and proactive
Skills that will help you in the role:
- Ability to write high quality Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specs
that are clear and concise enough for both traders and developers to follow
- Ability to build good relationships with senior stakeholders across Front Office, Business and Technology Functions
- You will show Proficiency in Unix and SQL, you will utilize PowerPoint, Excel, JIRA, Confluence, Lean Control, Agile methodologies
Where will you be working?
You will be working at our Americas Headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. This 32-story office tower is located in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan and features a cafeteria, fitness center and state-of-the-art LED signage on the facade of the building.
Because this position involves regular in-person contact with other employees and stakeholders, the Company requires proof of vaccination against COVID-19. As an equal opportunity employer, the company will provide reasonable accommodation to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated consistent with federal, state, and a local law.
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