Liquidity Financing/ Prime Trading AVP

New York, United States

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Date live: Oct. 09, 2024

Business Area: Global Markets

Area of Expertise: Markets

Reference Code: JR-0000016073

Contract: Permanent

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This role is FINRA regulated.

Join us as a Liquidity Financing/ Prime Trading AVP at Barclays where you’ll play a crucial role and be primarily responsible for facilitating hedge fund client’s short positions. You will manage relationship with lenders such as custodian banks, agent lenders, retail brokers, broker/ dealers and other market participants.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role,

such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen,

strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job specific technical skills.

To be successful in this role you should have great communication skills

and previous stakeholder management with both internal and external stakeholders, quantitative approach and ability to present findings in a digestible way by the audience as well as great MS Office, Excel and PowerPoint skills.

Additional relevant skills in programming, developing and coding, knowledge of equity markets and financial markets, infrastructure and previous experience working with technology and operation partners as well as SIE and series 7, 63, 57 are preferred and highly valued.

Salary / Rate Minimum: 125,000

Salary / Rate Maximum: 175,000

The minimum and maximum salary/ rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

This role is based in New York.

Purpose of the role

To execute trades and manage risk within a defined portfolio of financial instruments and staying informed about market trends and developments to make informed trading decisions.

Accountabilities

Execution of buy and sell orders or pricing of liquidity in various financial instruments while adhering to the bank's trading strategies and risk parameters.
Monitoring and analysis of global financial markets, economic indicators, news, and geopolitical events to identify trading opportunities and assess market risks.
Management and monitoring of the risk associated with the trading portfolio and ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal risk management guidelines.
Collaboration with research analysts and other teams to gather insights and information for trading decisions.

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.

More about working at Barclays

From New York to Nevada, our Barclays US offices are places where we’ve brought work and wellbeing together to create environments where our people can be at their very best. These are warm, welcoming and diverse communities where everyone’s contribution is recognised and celebrated.

Our approach to hybrid working ensures there’s the right balance of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, as required for each role. For business areas that offer a hybrid working experience, this will be in a structured way, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week. Some roles may require full onsite working. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager.

We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with the needs of our business.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture and environment, that recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives, as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs.

Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

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