Job Description
Purpose of the role
To maintain the smooth and efficient operation of our trading desks, providing operational support and expertise to traders, sales professionals, and other key stakeholders, helping them maximize their productivity and minimize disruptions and handling administrative tasks, and providing market information and research.
Accountabilities
· Provision of immediate and efficient technical support to traders and sales professionals on the trading desks, resolving hardware, software, and network-related issues to ensure uninterrupted trading activities.
· Coordination of trade execution by liaising with traders, clients, and other internal teams to ensure smooth transactions.
· Maintenance and updating of trade records, transaction logs, and client databases accurately.
· Reports, presentations, and documentation preparation to support sales and trading activities.
· Monitoring of market data and assist in the analysis of financial information for trading decisions.
· Operational tasks such as processing trades, confirming orders, and resolving trade discrepancies.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
· Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
· Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
· Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
· Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
· Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
· Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
· Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
· Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
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.
The expected candidate is required to have the below skill specifications:
- Experience Range- 3 to 5 years (relevant)
- Comprehensive knowledge of the financial products across business (Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives). Create prototypes of innovative tools/models to facilitate decision and analytics for trading or risk business.
- Work on front office sponsored projects
- Perform analysis on P&L of the business to identify key drivers, prepare narrative for senior management and key talking points for the client coverage.
- Flexible in work long hours (4pm to 1am shift) when required and aptitude for self-learning and ability to cope well under pressure and meet deadlines
- Advanced Excel (Pivot tables, Macros) and MS Office skills
- Hands on experience in dashboarding tools like Qlikview/Tableau and needs to have good coding skills on Python/SQL etc. Open UI knowledge like Angular will be an added advantage.
- Work closely with Regional stakeholders and senior management on ad-hoc requests and analysis around Collateral, Revenue and Balances, region wise Interest Attribution, FX and Futures Product Margining, FCM Data Analysis etc.
