Governance Business Analyst (AVP) - 12 Months Full Time Contract

Join us at Barclays as a Business Analyst, where you will shape high-impact programmes within the Organisation Simplification initiative, a workstream within an ambitious strategic programme (Catalyst) to drive efficiency, commercial impact and enhanced customer, client and colleague experiences. 

In this role you will be aligned to the Executive Governance team on the mandated committee governance and framework providing review, analysis, input and guidance across the Group.  

You will within the team be looking at simplification across the mandated & MD-led committee structure, ensuring consistency and quality delivery of the Controls Strategy, Control Frameworks, improvement initiatives and capabilities across the subject matter areas. 

At the same time, you will be developing and maintaining relationships with senior colleagues and stakeholders – learning how Governance, Risk and Controls align, with the ability to support how the firm looks to drive simplification and colleague experience whilst maintaining compliance to all relevant policies and standards. 

To be successful as a Governance-aligned Business Analyst, you should have experience with: 

• Proven experience in business analysis and requirements gathering on regulatory and transformation change projects, with the ability to elicit, document, and validate business and technical requirements. 

• Strong stakeholder management and senior-level communication skills, including the ability to facilitate workshops, present options appraisals, and articulate impact assessments to leadership. 

• Experience of working in or within a Regulatory or Control type role / team with the ability to demonstrate a risk management mindset. 

• Experience of working in or within a Control type role / team with the ability to demonstrate a risk management mindset. 

• Strong ability to use Power Apps and Copilot 

• Stakeholder management experience. 

• Effective written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present credibly to senior stakeholders. 

Some other highly valued skills may include: 

• Understanding of risk governance at a global bank 

• Strong ability to provide thought leadership through bringing together insight and analysis including external knowledge. 
   

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology—as well as job-specific technical skills. 

This role can be based from London or Glasgow. 

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

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will 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.