Date live:08/08/2025
Business Area:Global Payment Services
Area of Expertise:Change
Contract:Permanent
Reference Code:JR-0000057896
Join Barclays as an FX Senior Business Analyst, where you’ll be responsible for supporting FX systems as part of a large-scale transformation programme. Your role is not customer-facing but involves a high level of internal stakeholder guidance across global teams. You will work closely with consultants, internal developers, UX designers, testers, and technical supports to deliver a highly detailed FX technology solution, migrating from legacy systems towards a more agile, modular setup.
The ability to assess business processes and elicit requirements from stakeholders, working to convert these into user stories with clear success criteria for the development team.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• The ability to clearly articulate requirements and present them to both business and technical stakeholders for sign-off.
• An understanding of the proposed technical solutions and the capability to assess how well these meet the business needs.
• Good communication skills to drive discussions with senior stakeholders, explaining requirements at a high level for business audiences and in greater detail for developers.
• The ability to gain approvals and sign-offs for requirements and success criteria from the Product team.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES INCLUDING:

• Investigating the application landscape
• Supporting solution architects with data queries
• Reading and understanding .json/.xml files
• Querying databases
• Evaluating data files and capturing data flows
• Documenting business processes in both current and target states
• Connecting requirements to test cases and collaborating with developers and the test team to confirm—using data evidence—that requirements are met.

SOME OTHER HIGHLY VALUED SKILLS INCLUDE:

• Knowledge of corporate or investment banking, particularly in FX trading or cross-currency payments.
• Experience working in an Agile environment as part of a cross-functional Scrum team, using Jira for requirement capture and being familiar with Scrum boards and ceremonies.
• The ability to support the delivery team with stakeholder communications, mentorship information (MI), and reporting.
  You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills
  This role is based in London.

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.

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.

To be successful in this role, you should have:

• The ability to clearly articulate requirements and present them to both business and technical stakeholders for sign-off.
• An understanding of the proposed technical solutions and the capability to assess how well these meet the business needs.
• Good communication skills to drive discussions with senior stakeholders, explaining requirements at a high level for business audiences and in greater detail for developers.
• The ability to gain approvals and sign-offs for requirements and success criteria from the Product team