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Business Analyst – Drive strategy and implement solutions in Chennai.
Key role in Finance Data Transformation, delivering high‑performing merchant payment systems.
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.
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 elevate 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..
Individual Contributor
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
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Risk management
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.
Organisational understanding
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaboration across domains
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Analytical solution design
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.
Research incorporation
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Relationship building
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.
Values
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.
Barclays mission
At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we create it. Embark on a transformative journey as part of the Business Analyst – Finance Data Transformation, where you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring the resilience, scalability, and reliability of critical payment systems within the Merchant Services domain. You will be a key contributor championing quality and performance for systems that power merchant transactions, focusing on driving improvements in system stability, throughput, efficiency, and control.
Engineering collaboration
Working closely with Engineering teams and stakeholders across Finance Data Transformation team, you will help Engineering team deliver high‑performing solutions through agile delivery models.
Performance & compliance
Leading the ongoing drive to enhance platform performance and reliability, you will champion a data‑driven and collaborative approach, ensuring that performance considerations are embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. Additionally, ensuring compliance with performance standards, risk controls, and service‑level expectations will be a key responsibility.
Requirements & experience
- Experience in translating business and operational needs into succinct requirements, and associated analysis and design articulation methods.
- Experience across the full project lifecycle (from inception to closure) with strong knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Understanding of the Finance or Risk data.
- Ability to use effective questioning techniques to identify, analyse and address underlying business needs.
- Strong understanding of risk management, control environments, and policy frameworks.
- Good understanding of Agile frameworks, including Scrum and Kanban.
- Experience with delivery workflow and articulation tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Strong MS Office skills, including advanced Excel (formulas, VLOOKUPs, macros), Word and PowerPoint.
Highly valued skills
- Formal training in business analysis and change management.
- Understanding of data integration concepts, including APIs and data transfer mechanisms.
- Familiarity with cloud‑based applications and platforms.
- Experience within the financial services industry.