Business Analyst / Project Manager, AVP

Barclays•New York, NY

1d•$126,610 - $130,000•Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of the role is to support the organization in achieving its strategic objectives by ensuring the business is ready to receive agreed-upon changes, addressing business problems and opportunities, and ensuring that change initiatives are successfully assessed and implemented to enable their embedding within the organization. This role involves identifying and analyzing business impacts and opportunities, developing business readiness strategies, communicating with stakeholders, collaborating with various teams for smooth transitions, managing resistance to change, and reviewing readiness plans. The Assistant Vice President (AVP) level expectations include advising and influencing decision-making, contributing to policy development, taking responsibility for operational effectiveness, collaborating across functions, leading teams, setting objectives, coaching employees, and managing performance. For individual contributors, this involves leading collaborative assignments, guiding team members, identifying new directions, and consulting on complex issues. The role also requires managing risk, strengthening controls, performing related work in other areas, engaging in complex analysis, communicating complex information, and influencing stakeholders. All colleagues are expected to demonstrate Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship) and the Barclays Mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).

Requirements

Business Analyst / Project Manager, AVP
Support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by ensuring the business is ready to receive the agreed change (address business problems and opportunities), ensuring that change initiatives are successfully assessed and implemented to enable them to be embedded in the organisation.
Identification and analysis of business impact and opportunities that require change within the organisation.
Development of business readiness strategies that will help to ensure the successful implementation of change initiatives.
Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about change initiatives and that their needs and expectations are being met.
Collaboration with Client Readiness, Operational Readiness & Tech Delivery to ensure business, sales, operations, client servicing and functional partners are prepared for a smooth transition of technology delivery into BAU (including Target Operating Model, Training, Communications, Service Agreements.).
Management of resistance to change, ensuring that stakeholders are engaged and that their concerns are addressed.
Review of business readiness plans and status reports in conjunction with change delivery managers to ensure business readiness activities completed on time including newly identified risks, issues and dependencies.
Collaboration with project teams to ensure that change initiatives are aligned with project objectives and that change management activities are integrated into project plans.
Provision of guidance and support to business stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to implement change initiatives successfully.
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.
Developing and driving project plans for technology and infrastructure initiatives using project management methodologies which include coordinate development of solutions by establishing product scope, business requirements and user acceptance testing.
Performing and coordinating requirements analysis, design, testing, deployment, in support of the system development lifecycle (SDLC) by collaborating with product & development teams for new product/content enhancements using structured analysis, modelling and programming languages.
Understanding of existing processes, creating, and managing implementation of current business processes and tools and what is required for projects to enable decision making and consensus amongst stakeholders.
Gathering and documenting requirements for projects and collaborate with product and development teams to provide analysis and recommendations for new product and/or content enhancements.
Presenting findings and recommendations to stakeholders to build process improvements around large scale initiatives.
Troubleshooting and resolving complex business issues relating to the infrastructure, technology and operations of organization.
Oversee the planning, initiation, and execution of Banking projects.
Provide leadership and direction to technical teams, ensuring alignment with project goals.
Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical personnel to facilitate effective communication and collaboration.
Develop detailed project plans, evaluate the business impact at each phase, and monitor progress to ensure adherence to established timelines, quality standards, and budgetary constraints.
Managing scope and client expectations throughout the software and/or project development life cycle.
Training stakeholders and team members on internal products and services, specific new or maintained solutions.

Responsibilities

Identification and analysis of business impact and opportunities that require change within the organization.
Development of business readiness strategies that will help to ensure the successful implementation of change initiatives.
Communication with stakeholders, including senior management, project teams, and external partners, to ensure that they are informed about change initiatives and that their needs and expectations are being met.
Collaboration with Client Readiness, Operational Readiness & Tech Delivery to ensure business, sales, operations, client servicing and functional partners are prepared for a smooth transition of technology delivery into BAU (including Target Operating Model, Training, Communications, Service Agreements.).
Management of resistance to change, ensuring that stakeholders are engaged and that their concerns are addressed.
Review of business readiness plans and status reports in conjunction with change delivery managers to ensure business readiness activities completed on time including newly identified risks, issues and dependencies.
Collaboration with project teams to ensure that change initiatives are aligned with project objectives and that change management activities are integrated into project plans.
Provision of guidance and support to business stakeholders, ensuring that they have the necessary skills and knowledge to implement change initiatives successfully.
Advising and influencing decision making, contributing to policy development and taking responsibility for operational effectiveness.
Collaborating closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Leading a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
Setting objectives and coaching employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
Leading collaborative assignments and guiding team members through structured assignments, identifying the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
Identifying new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consulting on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identifying ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Taking ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Performing 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.
Collaborating with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engaging 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.
Communicating complex information.
Influencing or convincing stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
Developing and driving project plans for technology and infrastructure initiatives using project management methodologies which include coordinate development of solutions by establishing product scope, business requirements and user acceptance testing.
Performing and coordinating requirements analysis, design, testing, deployment, in support of the system development lifecycle (SDLC) by collaborating with product & development teams for new product/content enhancements using structured analysis, modelling and programming languages.
Understanding of existing processes, creating, and managing implementation of current business processes and tools and what is required for projects to enable decision making and consensus amongst stakeholders.
Gathering and documenting requirements for projects and collaborate with product and development teams to provide analysis and recommendations for new product and/or content enhancements.
Presenting findings and recommendations to stakeholders to build process improvements around large scale initiatives.
Troubleshooting and resolving complex business issues relating to the infrastructure, technology and operations of organization.
Overseeing the planning, initiation, and execution of Banking projects.
Providing leadership and direction to technical teams, ensuring alignment with project goals.
Acting as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical personnel to facilitate effective communication and collaboration.
Developing detailed project plans, evaluating the business impact at each phase, and monitoring progress to ensure adherence to established timelines, quality standards, and budgetary constraints.
Managing scope and client expectations throughout the software and/or project development life cycle.
Training stakeholders and team members on internal products and services, specific new or maintained solutions.