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Lead Business Analyst – Market Risk VP Whippany, NJ

As a Barclays Lead Business Analyst in Market Risk, you will coordinate, plan, and perform analysis tasks for their specialist applications and manage internal domain analysis resources for one or more components of a Program. This role acts as a reviewer and quality gate for analysis output, challenging IT to ensure root cause is addressed and the right design delivered for user requirements. Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

What will you be doing?

• Defining analysis approach in line with the strategic vision of the program and the preferred methodology of the organization • Managing and mentoring 2 direct reports • Reporting on the progress of the team to senior IT and Business staff on a regular basis • Presenting commercial effectiveness of requirement proposals within a project or initiative • Working independently to elicit, validate and document systems requirements in either BRDs or user/feature stories depending on the SDLC in use by the development teams • Participating in the design process coordinated by the Program Management team, from Design approval to functional design completion • Supporting the Testing Strategy, ensuring all requirements in scope are tested. • Performing system training for new users, or when new functionality is released

What we’re looking for:

• Graduate or Master’s degree – preferably in Finance, Math or Science • Knowledge of Market Risk (Greeks, VaR , Expected Shortfall & Stress Testing calculations) • Financial Product Valuations knowledge (how to price an Equity Option or an Interest Rates Swap) • Exposure to working in medium to large scale change initiatives

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Certifications in Finance or Risk e.g. FRM, CQF – desirable, not essential • Adept at using Microsoft Office products with some experience using other software packages relevant to BA work e.g. Python, R, SQL • Ability to manage within a high performing team and contribute to overall objectives/best practice • Excellent communication skills - including the ability to convey information to non-technical colleagues in a concise and clear way

Where will you be working?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.