Assistant Vice President, Trade Capture Utility

The Trading Capture Utility (TCU) sits within the Front Office and is closely aligned to the Prime trading desks’ daily trading activity.  TCU is heavily involved in many aspects of the business’ trading activity, with a primary focus on the timely and accurate capture of all trading activity in the Firm’s risk and booking systems. This includes but not limited to trading, entering and accepting the economic terms of any trades into trade capture systems, subsequent risk modifying activities on that trade (encompassing a broad range of trade capture activity types and systems), and risk monitoring.  This is to meet both our regulatory and internal control requirements. The team also has a heavy focus on process and system development for the business and are central to many UAT and development initiatives.

Key Accountabilities

• Providing trade capture assistance including trade input, amendments, life-cycle events management and trade allocation processing.
• First point of contact for all front-line issues regarding trade capture specific queries across the trading desks covering the products mentioned below
• Risk monitoring to ensure accuracy of trade bookings
• Provide quantitative analytical work
• Drive process and system development for the Prime TCU team

Requirements

• Familiar with the Equity business within the APAC region
• Familiar with risk management and product pricing
• Self-starter and motivated
• Broad experience of financial products and their practical applications
• Numeracy and proficiency in Excel packages
• Excellent organizational skills, ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
• The person will need to be a team player with the ability to work under pressure and deliver results
• Strong analytical and issue resolution abilities, and communication skills
• 3-5 years’ experience in a similar trade capture / trading assistant / trading middle-office role

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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.