Market Global Contract Services Execution

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.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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 Global Contract Services ” Team in APAC at Barclays, where members of the Executions Team provide daily support to the broader GCS team and other internal stakeholders by (1) reviewing final agreements for completeness, (2) extracting relevant legal and business data points and (3) storing legal documents in Barclays’ central document repository.  The Executions Team maintains controls to ensure that data elements captured from trading documentation accurately flow to downstream consumers, all regulatory requirements in relation to record retention are satisfied, and requirements of the Chief Data Office with respect to critical data points are met. Other Executions Team duties include efficiently answering queries, data analysis & remediation, production of MI reporting and ad hoc project work as needed.

To be successful as a member of our “Market Global Contract Services Executions” Team in APAC, you should have experience with data management and analysis, document management systems and managing document repositories.

Person Specifications:

• Team player with ability to work autonomously and with others.
• Demonstrates interpersonal, communication, organizational, analytical and time management skills.
• Demonstrated attention to detail.
• Motivated individual with initiative and the ability to continue to learn, interpret and adapt to change, and with good work ethics.
• Ability to continue to learn, interpret and adapt to change.
• Demonstrates commitment to diversity and respect for the individual.

Key Accountabilities:

• Identify processes that can be improved around data capture, technology and documentation.
• Accurate and efficient capture of key data points in relation to GCS executed agreements into our Legal document storage systems.
• Ability to capture points missed by negotiators prior to completion and uploading of signed agreements onto Libra.
• Strong understanding and familiarity with the systems utilized by GCS on a daily basis, e.g. Agreement Management, Libra, Electronic Closing Form and how the data points captured in Legal’s systems interact with downstream systems.
• Ability to manage control reports, identify breaks, and provide a solution to resolve the break.
• Provide assistance with various research, remediation, and ad hoc projects as requested by another part of the GCS team or internal stakeholders, and ability to propose solutions/workarounds our system limitations.
• Identify process gaps, analyze potential solutions, and implement the required process changes.
• Ability to manage control reports, identify breaks, and provide a solution to resolve the breaks.

Basic/Essential Qualifications

• Tertiary/University or bachelor’s degree (LLB or equivalent).
• Competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Desired Skills/Preferred Qualifications

• Strong ability to navigate through various IT systems used by the Legal function.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as demonstrating how you manage risk and what controls can be implemented, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Location-Pune