Barclays
Barclays
Barclays is a UK-headquartered banking and financial services group serving individuals, businesses, institutions and investors. Its businesses span retail and consumer banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and private banking, capital markets, and a specialist US consumer bank. Barclays also provides digital banking, financial research and insights, and financing programmes focused on sustainability, climate technology and green bonds. With a workforce of more than 10,000 employees, the company operates across consumer, corporate and investment finance under UK financial regulation.

Credit Risk Data Analyst – A-IRB Implementation

Support Barclays’ A-IRB regulatory implementation by translating risk needs into data specifications and solution designs. Work across business, risk, and technology teams to shape and deliver requirements.

Description

  • Analyse business challenges and client needs that call for organisational change.
  • Develop requirements to address business problems and opportunities.
  • Work with stakeholders to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
  • Help prepare business cases for investment in proposed solutions.
  • Assess whether proposed solutions are feasible.
  • Track and report project progress to support on-time, on-budget delivery.
  • Design operational processes within the agreed scope.
  • Support change management, including the creation of traceability matrices.
  • Turn business and regulatory needs into clear requirements, data specifications, and solution designs.
  • Lead requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, data analysis, testing, and governance for A-IRB implementation.
  • Advise functional leaders and senior managers on impacts within and across functions.
  • Identify and mitigate risks in support of control and governance objectives.
  • Coordinate with teams across business, risk, technology, and other work areas.

Requirements

  • Strong business and data analysis skills, including converting IRB regulatory requirements into structured requirements and data specifications.
  • Practical experience working with credit risk data such as PD, LGD, and EAD.
  • Understanding of data lineage, data quality, and controls.
  • Experience with IRB, Basel, regulatory change programmes, or comparable risk transformation initiatives.
  • Able to engage business, risk, and technology stakeholders to gather, challenge, and refine requirements.
  • Knowledge of data tools, data modelling, or management information and reporting environments is highly valued.
  • Experience in structured delivery settings, such as L0–L3 requirements, Agile, or large-scale programmes, is highly valued.
  • Able to demonstrate skills in risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and role-specific technical expertise.

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