Assistant Vice President, Post Trade Business Analyst Project Manager

Join Barclays as a Technology Business Analyst and Project Manager in Singapore, where you’ll:-

Manage requirements analysis and change delivery covering growth initiatives, regulatory mandates, simplification and controls within the APAC region including Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, India and China. You will work within the Markets Post Trade Team facing off to Operations / Front Office and internal technology management stakeholders across locations and business lines.

Key Accountabilities:

• Work with Front, Middle and Back office users as well the Development and Quality Assurance (QA) teams to deliver change on time and with high quality.

• Understand and document the requirements of the respective business and operational. Gain and maintain in-depth knowledge of post trade applications and regional flows for each business and product class as a Subject Matter Expert.

• Work closely with software development teams to ensure user requirements are clearly understood and developed as specified in the documentation.

• Gather development and testing estimates and work with the relevant product owners or project managers to include these in formal project plans.

• Manage various stakeholders across Front Office, Operations, Risk, Finance and Global Technology. Be pro-active in articulating bottlenecks, conflicting prioritization, and known/unknown gaps.

• Conduct comprehensive functional testing during the development process and work closely with the relevant users to complete user acceptance testing (UAT).

Specific knowledge/experience:-

• Prior experience within Markets Post Trade areas like payments, settlements, margining, confirmations or regulatory reporting and knowledge of how projects are run and managed in both waterfall and agile based environments.

To be successful in this role:

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Knowledge of full cycle Investment Bank end to end processing.

• Project management and Business analysis skills and development lifecycle experience, working within IT, with proven delivery record and an ability to work in a demanding environment.

• Ease in working with matrixed and global environments.

• A proactive attitude towards problem solving and willingness to be a hands-on technologist.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong time management and ability to coordinate with various teams to action items

• Ability to build ongoing work relationships across locations and teams

• Experience with MS Visio, Project, Excel, Word, SharePoint, JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams etc.

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• 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.