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Date live: Mar. 29, 2026

Business Area: Equities

Area of Expertise: Markets

Reference Code: JR-0000079244

Contract: Permanent

Join our Front Office Team in Liquid Financing, step into a dynamic front office role within the Liquid Financing team, where you will serve as the First Line of Defence (FLOD) for the firm’s financing liquid business. This role spans a broad range of products including cash prime brokerage, synthetic financing (including Delta One), derivatives clearing (Cleared OTC & ETD), intermediation (FXPB), settlement (FIPB) and Repo financing  across multiple asset classes such as equities, rates, credit, commodities, FX, and securitised products. In this cross-product, cross-asset capacity, you will engage directly with the firm’s largest clients—including major hedge funds and asset managers—focusing on counterparty risk management, framework design, and structuring terms aligned with the firm’s underwriting standards. Your objective will be to maximise risk-adjusted returns across the liquid financing business while ensuring appropriate risk coverage.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Gaining a deep understanding of clients’ trading strategies and working closely with their risk, treasury, and portfolio financing teams.

  • Assessing risk and liquidity management practices and evaluating financing or clearing requirements.

  • Designing efficient structures and compensating controls to optimise the firm’s risk-return profile.

  • Collaborating with internal stakeholders across Risk, Credit, Sales, Legal, and Markets Management to monitor existing portfolios and onboard new clients.

  • Leading initiatives with technology and quant partners to enhance risk analytics, visibility, and management tools, while providing technical expertise to both internal and external stakeholders.

  • Monitoring the risk exposures for the liquid financing client base and taking appropriate actions to ensure prudent collateralisation.

We’re looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

  • Cross-asset market knowledge: Equities, Rates, Credit, FX, Commodities, Volatility, Securitised Products.

  • Understanding of financing and clearing: Cash Prime, Synthetics/Delta One, Derivatives Clearing.

  • Quantitative analytics: Pricing, risk analytics, liquidity assessment, margin methodologies (design and calibration).

  • Data analysis: Ability to analyse large datasets and derive actionable insights using tools such as Python/Jupyter.

  • Risk management: Experience in measuring, articulating, and consolidating risk exposures across regions and asset classes.

  • Professional background: Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field and 5–7 years’ experience in a front office financing role at a major investment bank, hedge fund, or similar institution.

  • Stakeholder engagement: Proven ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders on complex, bespoke transactions.

  • Problem-solving: Strong capabilities in connecting risk management, pricing, and return optimisation on scarce resources like balance sheet and capital.

Highly Valued Additional Skills:

  • Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills.

  • Experience working with control partners such as Legal and Credit Risk.

  • Strategic thinking and business acumen.

  • Familiarity with digital tools, technology, and AI.

  • Demonstrated ability in risk and controls, change management, and transformation

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is regulated by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) or Securities and Futures Commissions (SFC).

This role is subject to the Mandatory Reference Checking Scheme (MRC Scheme). If you require more information about the MRC Scheme, you may visit https://www.hkab.org.hk/en/page/5/mandatory-reference-checking-scheme-phase-2 or consult the Recruiter who is handling your job application.

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Purpose of the role

Liquid Finance Platform covers a variety of roles and is central to the delivery of best-in-class products and services, and for the provision of strategic client and risk solutions across the full spectrum of the Prime Financing businesses.

Accountabilities

  •  Working with clients to optimise the Liquid Financing relationship 
  •  Provide best-in-class service and escalation oversight 
  •  Primary contact for Liquid Financing clients in areas such as trading, risk, billing and reporting
  • Provide expertise on industry and regulatory initiatives
  • Subject matter expert for our clients, with a deep understanding of each client’s business mix, operational requirements and product sensitivities

Vice President Expectations

  • To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
  • If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
  • 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
  • Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
  • Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
  • Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
  • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
  • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
  • Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
  • Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.

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