Assistant VP - Global Markets

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 “AVP FIF Trading" in the Fixed Income Financing team which works as an extension of the regional front office FIF trading desks and help these desks with daily reporting, analytics around P&L generation, book management by resolving loss making trades or any other P&L slippages with complete ownership. The role holder would also have to create tactical analytical tools to help the desk make informed decisions daily and support their daily/monthly processes. 

To be successful as a “AVP FIF Trading”, FIF is part of the Liquid Financing globally business which offers various products across Equity and Fixed Income and derivative services asset classes, to Prime Brokerage clients. The products include Long / Short Financing via Cash PB, Synthetics PB and FIPB platforms across various global markets at competitive prices/rates. Liquid Financing Desk Support team in Mumbai is an extension of the global front office desks, responsible for generating trading ideas, book management, risk identification & mitigation, create analytics for EFG and FIF desks. The desk helps P&L generation activities and helps build tactical solutions which assists the Front Office traders in making informed business decisions. 

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with AVP FIF Trading, as well as job-specific skillsets.

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• 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. 

• Ability to train, upskill and empower the team to enhance team’s capability and engagement to be able to attract additional / more complex projects from the regional stakeholders. 

• To be able to troubleshoot in the existing BAU reports, cater to trader’s requests around providing explains around any variance in existing reports & enhancements to the existing reports as well as build new reports/models for the trading desk 

• The role requires sound understanding of trade life cycle of Securities Lending & Repo Financing, bond analysis, call and put options and bond pricing concepts along with good programming skills, understanding of the Financing business, eye for detail and an ability to liaise with the trading desks to ensure the timely and accurate delivery of tasks/projects performed.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Engineering Graduate in Computer Science /IT, MBA in Finance. 

• Work experience of 4-6 years into financial Markets domain. 

• Good knowledge on Fixed Income concepts and familiarity across Stock Loan, Securities Lending, Prime Brokerage and Triparty (Finance) in general. 

• Hands on experience / knowledge on Database languages like Python,SQL with an expert understanding of databases, BI tools like Qlikview, Tableau, Spotfire or Power BI 

This role will be based out of NKP,Mumbai

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