Prime Service Negotiator - Vice President

New York, United States

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Date live: Aug. 26, 2024

Business Area: Legal

Area of Expertise: Legal

Reference Code: JR-0000011102

Contract: Permanent

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As a Barclays Prime Services Negotiator Vice President, you will be responsible for drafting, negotiating, and executing capital markets contract documentation to support the Prime Services and Prime Derivative Services businesses. This is an exciting opportunity to showcase your knowledge drafting, negotiating, and executing prime services agreements (including Futures agreements, OTC clearing agreements, and ISDA master agreements), and providing the highest quality of service to multi-faceted and high-caliber clients.

To be successful as a Prime Services Negotiator Vice President, you should have experience with:

- The suite of prime services agreements

- Drafting, negotiating, and execution of capital markets contract documentation

- Prime brokerage, futures, and related financing businesses

Some other highly valued skills may include:

- Futures agreements, OTC clearing agreements, and ISDA/CSA

- Intermediation agreements (FXPB), repurchase agreements, and stock lending agreements

- Advising senior stakeholders of the firm with respect to risk, controls, and legal

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

This role is located in New York

Minimum Salary: $260,000

Maximum Salary: $300,000

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

Purpose of the role

To oversee and manage transactional processes, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and maintaining accurate documentation for financial transactions.

Accountabilities

To ensure that the Transaction Services and Documentation activities are conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with these activities.
Coordination with internal and external stakeholders, including legal counsel, credit risk management, and other departments, to ensure that transactions are executed in a timely and efficient manner.
Creation, review, negotiation and management of legal documents such as loan agreements, security documents, and other transactional documents, to ensure execution in a timely and efficient manner.
Transaction support, including preparation of transaction summaries, conducting due diligence, and support to other departments as needed.
Development and implementation of transaction processes and procedures to ensure that transactions are executed consistently.
Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.

Vice President Expectations

Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.

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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.

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