Transaction Monitoring Business Analyst

Shape the Future of Transaction Monitoring Technology – Use your analytical strengths to connect business needs with innovative technical solutions. Join Barclays in your role as a Transaction Monitoring Business Analyst. In this Assistant Vice President role, you will work closely with our business teams and software developers to ensure technical solutions align with evolving requirements across Transaction Monitoring Technology. You will draw on your Investment Banking knowledge—such as how trades are processed and settled—while defining clear business rules, evaluating highly detailed datasets, and writing SQL queries to support decision making. Your experience with modern data platforms, including cloud-based environments, will help you guide the development of scalable capabilities. You’ll partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand their needs, coordinate the delivery of large-scale projects and capabilities across Transaction Monitoring Technology, collaborating with key stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations throughout the software product lifecycle. Acting as a bridge between the business and our development teams, you will also help us translate requirements into actionable solutions that strengthen our monitoring capabilities and enhance customer experience.

To be successful in your role as Transaction Monitoring Business Analyst, you should have:

• The ability to perform detailed business analysis, data analysis, write business or functional requirements, system/workflow diagrams, functional test plans documentation/execution, working alongside technology colleagues, developers, and business stakeholders

• The ability to write SQL queries on RDBMS databases such as Oracle or SQL Server

• A Working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle and Agile methodologies

Other highly valued skills include:

• Experience with AWS, Python, Spark Scala or Quantexa would be an added advantage

• Knowledge in Investment Bank or Correspondent Banking Anti-Money Laundering Transaction Monitoring, Financial Crime or Fraud domains

• Subject Matter Expertise on Investment Banking Markets Trade Life Cycle or Payments

You may be assessed on critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in Whippany, New Jersey.

Minimum Salary: $115,000.00

Maximum Salary: $155,000.00

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

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.