Assistant VP - Global Markets

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

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• 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.

Join us as a "Liquid Financing- Quant & Analytics Analyst" at Barclays, The role holder will interact with regional traders to understand the key areas of business, the PnL drivers, the risks involved and work closely to build solutions/ models/ reports that can help in making informed business decisions. This is not a quant developer role and it is more towards analytics.

To be successful as a "Liquid Financing- Quant & Analytics Analyst", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

* Advanced Excel (Mandatory), Angular (Mandatory), Python (advanced Level)- Pandas, numpy, Microservices ((Flask or Fast Api), Django, Sqlalchemy, SQL (advanced Level) required

* Fullstack development experience or web development experience or experience in building api’s preferred

* Git (understands the workflows of Collaborative development)

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

* Technical Skills: Preferred Knowledge of BI tools like Qlikview, Tableau or Power BI (good to have skills)

* Proficient in Linux operating system and shell scripting

* Solid understanding of Hadoop ecosystem, including HDFS and Spark.

* Relevant Experience in Investment Banks preferred.

* Candidates working in Prime-Brokerage shall fit-in well

• Engineering Graduate in Computer Science /IT, Masters preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, able to clearly articulate complicated issues to management and other impacted areas and ensure timely resolution of issues and breaches.
• Highly analytical and numerate with exceptional problem solving abilities
• Should be able to understand/ structure complex flows in business resulting in PnL loss or risks.
• Well organised with good time management skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritise tasks.
• Able to work effectively as part of a large team.
• Able to multi-task and prioritise accordingly in a highly pressurised environment.
• Comprehensive knowledge on Financing products like Securities Lending, Equity Derivatives, Cash Prime Broker platform and Repo Financing
• Familiarity with version control systems (eg. GIT) and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with Jira to track project tasks, user stories etc and Confluence for documentation.
• Preferred Knowledge of BI tools like Qlikview, Tableau or Power BI
• Confident in dealing with groups outside of immediate team (Sales, Trading, Product Control, Credit, Legal).
• Ability to build, maintain and enhance relationships at all levels including interacting effectively with other key areas within the bank e.g. IT, MO, FO, Ops Control.
• Detailed and meticulous, consistently delivering a high level of accuracy and attention to detail with high quality output

This role will be based out of Mumbai.