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
· 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.
The expected candidate is required to have the below skill specifications:
- 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.
- Support in preparing MIS required for management decision making
- Should be flexible working with shifts covering US (4pm to 1am IST).
- 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.
- 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.
What We Do
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.
With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 83,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.