BA4 analyst FIF

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

• 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 Market desk support at Barclays where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with , good understanding of Fixed Income Financing business flow across region and sub-asset classes/Systems involved/Product details ,as well as job-specific technical skills.

About Liquid Financing

The role holder needs to make sure they act as an extension of the desk and help the desk 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 on a daily basis and support their daily/monthly processes.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

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

  
  

• Required Hands on experience / knowledge on Database languages like SQL with an expert understanding of databases, programming languages such as Python, VBA macro; BI tools like Qlikview, Tableau, Spotfire or Power BI

  
  

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

  
  

• Ability to lead the team and drive new analytical projects and understand existing analytical reports/models built in Qlikview/SQL/Python and working closely with FO Trading desk to enhance them based on business requirements.

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Well-organised with good time management skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritise tasks.

  
  

• Able to work effectively as part of a large team and multi-task and prioritise accordingly in a highly pressurised environment.

  
  

• Willing to take on responsibility and Confident in dealing with groups outside of immediate team (Sales, Trading, Product Control, Credit, Legal, Ops).

  
  

This role is based in Mumbai.