Investment Specialist Analyst

Investment Specialist Analyst 
Glasgow

As a Barclays Investment Specialist Analyst, you will work as part of a team accountable for providing world class client service to a diverse client base across Private Bank and Wealth Management. Within this role, you will play an integral part in the delivery of specialised white glove Investment services for key clients. Activity supported will include complex Corporate Actions, bespoke activity, direct-to-market product delivery amongst other specialist actions.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

•    Working with colleagues and stakeholders across all functions in the organisation to drive a world class service for key clients 
•    Reviewing, analysing & providing insight on all Specialist activity within PBWM Investments, utilising MI to drive efficient use of fungible resource within the team
•    Processing a variety of high value transactions and complex corporate actions within a tight control framework and within SLA
•    Identifying and resolving intricate issues on complex market events
•    Working with colleagues across all jurisdictions to share knowledge and collective understanding of policies and procedures that may affect the clients we serve in PBWM 
•    Taking ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do

What we’re looking for:

•    Great time management and accountability, with the ability to deliver accurate information in short time frames 
•    Good attention to detail and ability to make informed decisions with ability to articulate rationale
•    Ability to adapt and develop solid grasp of relevant systems used to service clients
•    Good knowledge of operational risk

Skills that will help you in the role

•    Good verbal and written communication skills
•    Experience using Avaloq platform

Where will you be working?

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.


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