Equity Derivatives Product Marketing Graduate Programme 2025 Hong Kong

This role is regulated by HKMA and SFC

Graduate Programme Overview

If you're a soon-to-be graduate join us and unlock a world of carefully curated experiences, knowledge, and connections to shape your career. Along the way, you can expect all the training and support you need to make your mark on the world. Put simply, we’ll empower you to help determine how we do things and where we go next. Our graduates are a vital part of our success, and we welcome applications from people from all walks of life. Whoever you are and wherever you want to join us, if you’re curious, creative and ambitious, this is a world in which you can truly belong.

Why the Sales, Trading and Structuring Graduate Programme?

Barclays is a market maker in nearly all major asset classes, providing sophisticated, timely solutions to our clients. Our Sales & Trading team works in a fast-paced, dynamic and exciting environment, quickly processing information to identify trade ideas and market trends so that our clients can make informed and timely investment decisions. Sound like the place for you? Join us as an analyst.

The chance to make an impact in the Equity Derivatives world

As a Graduate based in Hong Kong, you’ll develop a solid understanding about Barclays’ awarded Equity Derivatives markets franchise, the structuring of exotic products such as structured products and the marketing of Quantitative Investment Strategies.

Through this experience, you will develop solid financial skills, new sales and marketing skills as well as a strong understanding of US, Asian & European Structured Products markets.

As a Graduate, you may be involved in:

- Clients’ pitching: Through technical understanding of products and market landscape, you’ll create impactful content and pitch materials for professional clients (private banks, IFAs, Asset Managers, Insurance companies…), communicating on product offerings, underlying, wrappers, and web platforms to clients
- Product development and innovation: Support new product development and positioning of offerings in collaboration with the structuring and sales teams
- Equity Product marketing strategy and campaigns: Create and implement successful marketing strategies to reach target audiences
- Market watch: Perform market watch analysis of traded products and trends (quantitative and qualitative analysis)
- ESG Offering: Participate in the creation of new marketing materials highlighting Barclays Markets ESG initiatives and offerings to professional clients
- Collaboration: Close collaboration with sales, structuring, legal, compliance and IT teams on a daily basis to ensure compliance with local regulations and internal guidelines
- Retail marketing regulation: Understand international and local regulators requirements for Structured Products retail marketing
- Work closely with our colleagues across Asia Pacific, EMEA and the US

Who we’re looking for

To be considered for this programme, you must be pursuing an undergraduate degree with anticipated completion between December 2024 - June 2025.

Ideally, you'll also have a minimum GPA of 3.2 and an interest in business and finance. We value a curiosity to learn, enthusiasm and an entrepreneurial spirit, all of which might be showcased through your involvement in extracurricular activities.

Technical knowledge in derivatives and structured products, and on quantitative/index strategies as well as proficiency in programming languages (e.g. Python) are a plus.

It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

Purpose of the role

To participate in the day-to-day activities of the markets division providing insights and expertise that help senior colleagues make informed decisions, develop new products and services, and identify new market opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Execution of small research projects, research to support strategic decision making, preparation of presentations and reports to communicate research findings, collaboration with senior management to implement research findings for the global markets division.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
• Participation in training and development programs to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Identification of opportunities, development of business cases, management of the deployment and launch of new products and services for the global markets division.
• Management of the development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support in decision making in the global markets division.

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.