Business Analyst

Overview

Join Barclays as a Business Analyst where you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering a high-profile wholesale lending transformation. As part of the Loan IQ Project, you’ll sit within the technology BA space while evolving toward a more functional, end-to-end role, working closely with the business to define, challenge, and refine requirements, translate them into clear user stories, and support delivery from concept through to implementation.

You’ll get exposure far beyond pure technology, spanning process design, stakeholder management, and elements of delivery ownership. This is an opportunity for an inquisitive, confident self-starter who isn’t afraid to challenge, juggle multiple priorities, and grow their skillset in a supportive environment where attitude matters as much as experience.

Location: Knutsford (Radbroke Hall)

• Ability to elicit, analyse, and document requirements across a wide range of stakeholders, ensuring clarity and alignment with business objectives.
• Strong analytical mindset with the capability to identify root causes, develop effective solutions, and clearly communicate and manage the resolution process.
• Confident in challenging requirements and proposed solutions constructively, building strong relationships while driving high standards and continuous improvement.
• 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.

• Experience in Wholesale Lending, including knowledge of loan trading, syndication, and corporate lending.
• Ability to capture, analyse, and document end-to-end processes clearly and accurately, identifying opportunities for optimisation and improved efficiency.
• Strong relationship building skills with the confidence to engage, influence, and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

The successful candidate will be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

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.