Finance Business Analyst (Risk, Finance and Treasury)

Length of contract: 6 months initially

Location: London

PAYE only

We are looking for a Business Analyst on a contract basis who will be a member of the Strategic Implementation Program (SIP) focused on materially improving Risk, Finance and Treasury Data and Processes within the Investment Bank. This role will play a key part in focusing, by Asset Class, on the data required for these and other streams to successfully deliver against their milestones.

Responsibilities:

• Key streams within SIP includes migrating end-of-day risk to the strategic risk-engines, re-platforming Market Risk’s processes and migrating product accounting onto the firms Strategic Sub-Ledger
• Work closely with the stream Business Analysts to understand business requirements and how they translate into system, data and process change
• The candidate will become part of a team of SMEs who will be the ‘go to’ experts for key data related focuses both front-to-back, and across product
• Understand the roadmap to Strategically Source data and perform comparisons between Legacy and Target data sources to ensure they reconcile or differences are understood and substantiated or remediated

Skills:

• Very knowledgeable about either Product Control/Product Accounting and/or Market Risk Processes and methodology and/or end-of-day Risk processes
• Strong experience of working with Data relating to Investment Bank Products, ideally with experience at constructing SQL-type queries to review and compare data sets
• Qualified Accountant - strong analytical/problem solving mind set but with the ability and willingness to get into the details to find solutions
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to inform business decisions
• Experience of best practice project management methodologies and tools, combined with the ability to influence the business, operations, functions to adhere to best practice

Where will you be working?

London

Interested and want to know more about Barclays? 

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About Barclays

Barclays is a British universal bank. They are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Their 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 their service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.

Dynamic working gives everyone at Barclays the opportunity to integrate professional and personal lives, if you have a need for flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

Our Values 

Everything Barclays does is shaped by the five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. Their values inform the foundations of their relationships with customers, clients, employees and contractors. 

Our Diversity

Barclays aims to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in being themselves, feel included and empowered to add value.

Our Benefits
Our customers are unique. The same goes for our colleagues. That's why at Barclays we offer a range of benefits, allowing every colleague to choose the best options for their personal circumstances. These include a competitive salary and pension, health care and all the tools, technology and support to help you become the very best you can be. We are proud of our dynamic working options for colleagues. Where appropriate, and for UK based roles, we will consider requests that the role be based at alternative Barclays’ key UK location from that advertised.

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 carer, 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.