Credit Risk Business Analyst (IRB)

About the role

Barclays is looking for an experienced Business Analyst with direct Credit Risk expertise to support strategic regulatory and risk transformation initiatives. The role acts as a bridge between business and technology teams, working with Risk, Modelling, Credit and Operations stakeholders to define, challenge and document requirements so that solutions meet both regulatory expectations and business objectives. It is based in Glasgow or Northampton.

Key responsibilities

• Elicit business requirements from Risk, Credit, Modelling and Operations teams and translate them into BRDs, user stories, functional and data requirements, keeping them traceable to delivery.
• Facilitate workshops, challenge business assumptions and manage competing priorities across business, IT and risk teams.
• Analyse datasets, perform impact assessments and use SQL and/or Excel to investigate problems and validate outputs.
• Support change management, including building a traceability matrix, and help create reports on project progress.
• Support the creation of business cases and feasibility studies, and help design operational and process designs.

Required profile

• Proven track record in Credit Risk and AIRB environments, with knowledge of PD, LGD and EAD and the associated PRA and CRR requirements.
• Ability to challenge requirements from a regulatory perspective.
• Strong analytical capability, stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience in Agile and Waterfall programmes, and support for testing, implementation and business readiness.

Required skills

• AIRB, PD, LGD, EAD, CRR and PRA expectations
• SQL and/or Excel
• Data analysis, impact assessment and data quality awareness
• Highly valued: process and operating model design, and risk and controls