Equity Derivatives Business Analyst

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

4d•$190,000 - $209,000•Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of the role is to support the organization in achieving its strategic objectives by identifying business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities. This involves the identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that necessitate change within the organization. The role includes developing business requirements, collaborating with stakeholders to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs, and supporting the creation of business cases to justify investment. It also involves conducting feasibility studies, supporting the creation of progress reports, and creating operational and process designs. Additionally, the role supports change management activities, including the development of a traceability matrix for successful implementation and embedding of solutions.

Requirements

Minimum Salary: $190K per year
Maximum Salary: $209K per year
Drive the functional analysis and design of Barclays’ global, in-house equity derivatives trade capture and lifecycle processing system.
Oversee product onboarding, workflow, feature enhancement, inter-system messaging, and regulatory change.
Work within a global team of business analysts and with users from EMEA, AMER and APAC, to define functionality needed to support trade capture and lifecycle processing of equity derivative products.
Work with trading and middle office users globally to drive the synergy between Risk Management and Trade Capture systems and ensure that requirements are aligned front to back.
Produce highly detailed functional specification documentation, aligned with the system functional architecture.
On-board new products to the system, add feature enhancements, and integrate with other Barclays IT systems to provide front-to-back straight through processing and enhancing the system to comply with regulatory change.
Manage stakeholders including Sales, Trading, Business Managers, Middle Office, Compliance and Product Control.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

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.
Drive the functional analysis and design of Barclays’ global, in-house equity derivatives trade capture and lifecycle processing system.
Oversee product onboarding, workflow, feature enhancement, inter-system messaging, and regulatory change.
Work within a global team of business analysts and with users from EMEA, AMER and APAC, to define functionality needed to support trade capture and lifecycle processing of equity derivative products.
Work with trading and middle office users globally to drive the synergy between Risk Management and Trade Capture systems and ensure that requirements are aligned front to back.
Produce highly detailed functional specification documentation, aligned with the system functional architecture.
On-board new products to the system, add feature enhancements, and integrate with other Barclays IT systems to provide front-to-back straight through processing and enhancing the system to comply with regulatory change.
Manage stakeholders including Sales, Trading, Business Managers, Middle Office, Compliance and Product Control.