Job Description

Join us as a Loan IQ Functional Analyst, to help deliver Loan IQ as the core lending platform for our Wholesale Lending business.
This role gives you the chance to work with systems, data, and processes that support Wholesale Lending and related functions. You'll play a key role in shaping technology changes that make lending journeys simpler, more accurate, and more efficient for our Lending Operations teams. Working closely with colleagues across business and technology, you'll help design solutions that meet real needs and create better outcomes.
To be successful as a Loan IQ Functional Analyst, you should have experience with:

• Wholesale Lending, including knowledge of loan trading, syndication, and corporate lending.
• Using Loan IQ software, with an understanding of the data that supports its processing.
• Business and functional requirement elicitation and shaping solutions to meet business needs.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience working in Agile teams to support business and technical change.
• Resolving issues by considering different perspectives and working toward shared solutions.
• Familiarity with processes in key functions such as Finance, Risk, and Treasury.

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 will be based in Knutsford or Glasgow.
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.
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.

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.

Skills Required