Barclays - Assistant Vice President - Credit Risk Business Analyst

What will you be doing?

- Liaise with Business and other Technology teams across Barclays to investigate and understand new requirements. 

Specifically:

- Working with the business to determine and document clear and concise business/functional requirements through meetings/workshops for Credit Risk modelling methodologies.

- Analyse data requirements and work with business and IT streams. Act as the bridge between the business and IT.

- Follow good processes and practices, as defined by the team standards; ensuring that documentation is complete, comprehensive and signed off.

- Ability to work independently and to tight deadlines across multiple streams

- Candidate should be assisting with the prioritization and planning of key deliverables.

- Review documentation and provide feedback for components that are being implemented on the project.

- Participate in the testing cycle and own the resolution of defects pertaining to requirement and design clarifications.

- Where applicable work with functional or business areas and SMEs to plan migrations of users and or transactions.

- Participate in helping to perform system training for new users, or when new functionality is released.

- Raise key issues and risks in a timely manner to the Project Manager/Delivery Lead.

- Role holder will have no direct reports.

What we're looking for:

- 7-10 years relevant work experience in sourcing data for risk and finance projects.

- Domain - Risk or (Regulatory) Reporting (preferably Credit Risk in Investment or Corporate Banking)

- Understanding of Credit Risk domain fundamentals - E.g. Probability of Default, Loss Given Default, Exposure at Default & Potential Future Exposure and Limit Management

- Understanding database concepts and being able to perform data analysis using SQL Server/Excel/Hadoop is essential. Strong understanding of Data Manipulation, Presentation, and Analysis, Data warehousing, dimension and measure models, etc. would be given additional weightage

- Experience in delivering projects using the agile methodology Understanding of the Data warehouse and analysis fundamentals

- Ability to assimilate information quickly, make informed decisions, ability to use own initiative to resolve issues/ investigate and find solutions.

- Regular and confident interaction with end-users and customers having strong focus on delivering strategic solutions for the business.

Skills that will help you in the Role:

- Excellent communication skills - including the ability to convey information to non-technical colleagues in a concise and clear way

- Strong stakeholder management, able to communicate at all levels and build sustainable relationships

- Strong organisational skills and ability to multi-task in a highly pressurised support environment

- Able to work within a high performing team and contribute to overall objectives/best practice

- Professional qualifications (e.g. CFA, FRM) would be added benefit, though not mandatory

- Strong analytical skills, methodical approach with good attention to detail, excellent organisational skills, self-motivated, good communication skills (particularly the ability to summarise complex topics and present in a concise and readily understood format)

- Manage team relationship with specific central teams (e.g. Risk/Quants/Finance/IT)

- Goal focused, demonstrating tenacity and innovation when faced with challenges, constantly challenges the status quo; looks for more efficient ways of producing results, persistent, diligent and able to accept and drive change.

- Mentor new members and junior analysts with respect to guidance and leadership