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.
Analyst Expectations
- To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
- Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
- Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
- They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
- Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
- Partner with other functions and business areas.
- Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
- Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
- Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
- Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
- Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
- Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to 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.
Join us as a "Prime Integration Analyst" at Barclays, The role requires sound understanding of Prime services products, eye for detail and an ability to liaise with the front office desks to ensure priority for Onboarding Pipeline. The candidate will need to liaise with all levels of management across Sales/Compliance/Risk/Legal/Operations and other support areas to ensure efficient, flexible and accurate process for on boarding and clients across NY, London and Asia for Prime business. Over the past few years the team has created its own niche brand within the business and the person joining this team has got a great ask to drive this brand further.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with Prime Integration Analyst, as well as job-specific skillsets.
To be successful as a " Prime Integration Analyst ", you should have experience with:
Basic/ Essential Qualifications:
*Work as the process owner and ensure end to end management of all activities associated with the onboarding process.
* Develop and demonstrate strong understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the team, Prime global business and various Equity/Fixed Income, synthetics and Derivative products like Futures, Options, OTC, FX PB , various systems and Onboarding flow.
* Track client details like stage, revenue opportunity, on boarding date etc. across businesses through inbuild systems and tools.
Desirable skillsets/ good to have:
* Support in preparing MIS required for management decision making, Manage, develop and sustain effective working relations with Sales, Compliance, Risk, Legal and Static teams to ensure clients are on boarded without any road blocks.
* Managing daily deliverables and meeting all agreed SLAs, Ensure cross training and knowledge transfer within the team.
* Responsible for front to back management of the initiatives and projects ADHOC requests catering to above items, Ability to prioritize and multi task effectively, Take ownership and drive various on-going projects in the team.
- This is a high-profile front office position which will require a high level of engagement with a variety of stakeholders across the firm, including Front Office Risk, Legal, Compliance and Sales desk across multiples businesses in New York, London and Asia
- Take ownership for all undertaken tasks in the team and suggest change to senior management for any process improvements.
- Ensure to demonstrate effectively communication and problem solving skills along with responsibility and accountability.
- Person should understand the platforms and nuances of the applications/systems, to design new account set up work flow process in co-ordination/agreement with middle office/static teams which will ensure there are no errors and accounts are set up quickly.
- Should possess strong problem solving skills to eliminate going back and forth to the client for any additional information enhancing smooth client experience.
- Proactively provide inputs and suggestions to improve processes.
- Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills as the person is required to communicate with global stakeholders and management team in Investment Banking vertical. Ability to clearly articulate complicated issues to management and other impacted areas and ensure timely resolution of issues and breaches.
- Experience in Banking/Finance industry and Comprehensive knowledge of the financial products across business (Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives)
- Strong eye for detail as the person is expected to set up client account data across various trading and reporting systems.
- Flexible in work long hours when required and aptitude for self-learning and ability to cope well under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Ambitious and Proactive in nature, should be able to take quick decisions and be an excellent Team player
- Advanced Excel (Pivot tables, Macros), MS Office skills and inclination to learn new IT Skills like QlikView
- Well organized with good time management skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize tasks. Ability to multi-task and prioritize accordingly in a highly pressurized environment.
- Understanding of onboarding process will be an added advantage.
- The person needs to have a proven record of willingness to take ownership and responsibility.
This role will be based out of Mumbai.
