FX Business Analyst/Project Manager

FX Business Analyst/ Project Manager

Singapore

As a Barclays FX Business Analyst/ Project Manager you will have an exciting opportunity to manage the strategic delivery of critical projects/requirements for the expansion of the Foreign Exchange electronic trading business. You will be the key SME (Subject Matter Expert) within Technology across FX trading platforms, interfacing with Trading desks, Sales, Market Risk, Compliance, and front to back Technology teams.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

Working Flexibly

We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs. Whether you have family commitments or you're a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We're flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Managing the delivery of key strategic projects as a senior Business Analyst/Project Manager within the Foreign Exchange space
• Partnering with Technology Lead to drive application story backlogs/sprint planning and providing robust framework to ensure developers/Quality Assurance are delivered
• Owning requirement analysis on Foreign Exchange projects and producing business requirement specification
• Working with Technology team, product manager and business stakeholders to form the project delivery plan for prioritised deliverables
• Driving process improvements and ensuring consistent business analysis task structure in place across project deliveries
• Owning setup and maintenance of central repository for requirements for Foreign Exchange projects (Confluence, JIRA)
• Being responsible for assessment of any new cross team/front-to-back requirement requests on Foreign Exchange projects
• Ensuring planned project outputs deliver agreed outcomes and that these outcomes remain relevant

What we're looking for:

• First-hand experience working as Foreign Exchange Business Analyst on a front-office trading platform in Investment Banking domain, in depth knowledge of defining front to back flows and processes
• Ability to write high quality Business Requirement Documents and Functional Specs that are clear and concise enough for both Traders and Developers to follow
• Ability to build solid relationships with the Front Office, Operations, Compliance and Technology
• Excellent communication and relationship skills and excellent stakeholder management

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Technical background desirable coupled with a solid PM skillset
• Good understanding of Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
• Naturally curious and attracted to complicated problems, driven to apply order and process, yet flexible to adapt as needed for continuous improvement
• Excellent communication and relationship and stakeholder management skills

Where will you be working?

Our office is located in Marina Bay Financial Centre, which has been carefully crafted into a "city in a garden". Overlooking the scenic skyline along the Marina Bay waterfront, the green spaces and rooftop terraces have been designed to optimise employee well-being. The centre provides an integrated live-work-play development, surrounded by shops, restaurants, gyms and an alfresco dining area. Our convenient office location means you're just a 5-minute walk from the nearest MRT station.

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