Business Analyst

Date live: 18/06/2026

Business Area: Global Payment Services

Area of Expertise: Change

Contract: Permanent

Reference Code: JR-0000103873

Join us as a Business Analyst. We’re looking for a Business Analyst to support the design and transformation of payments investigations processes. You’ll play a key role in analysing current workflows, defining future-state solutions, and ensuring processes are efficient, compliant, and ready for automation.

Critical skills

• Strong knowledge of payments investigations and SWIFT messaging (MT and ISO 20022)

• Understanding of investigation lifecycle processes (recalls, returns, sanctions, exceptions)

• Proven experience in process modelling, re-engineering, and transformation

• Ability to identify automation opportunities and drive process improvements

• Experience mapping business processes to system workflows and case lifecycles

• Strong stakeholder management across both business and technology teams

• Ability to translate complex requirements into clear documentation

• Experience working with user stories and Agile backlog management

• Focus on ensuring compliant and high-quality processes

Desirable skills

• Familiarity with Pega Smart Investigate (SI), SIAA, and Constellation UX

• Exposure to low-code platforms (e.g. Pega Blueprint) and workflow orchestration

• Understanding of automation-led case management and straight-through processing (STP)

• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments (e.g. PI planning, sprint delivery)

• Knowledge of payment flows across schemes such as FPS, CHAPS, SEPA, and SWIFT

• Awareness of cross-border payments and correspondent banking models

This role is based in Bournemouth.

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

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.