Director - Global Markets

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 business within the in-business risk and margin team. This role spans a broad range of products including cash prime brokerage, synthetic financing (Delta One), derivatives clearing (Cleared OTC & ETD), intermediation (FXPB), and fixed income financing (DM/EM Government & Corporate) 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.

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

• Risk management: Experience in measuring, articulating, and consolidating risk exposures across regions and asset classes.
• 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.
• Professional background: Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field and 8+ 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.

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

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior 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.

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.