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Date live: Apr. 24, 2024

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Finance

Reference Code: 90387271

Contract: Permanent

Treasury Markets Risk and Control Business Manager 
London

As a Barclays Treasury Markets Risk and Control Business Manager, you will be assisting the Treasury’s markets execution team. The team works directly with the traders, structurers, management and infrastructure teams who support in the coordinating cross-function strategic objectives and initiatives. Your role will have a wide ranging and substantive remit with significant visibility and profile, ideal to those interested in financial markets and multi product trading desks, as well as strengthening the governance and control framework. 

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?
•    Helping Senior Business Managers and Treasury stakeholders with managing the people and processes necessary for delivery
•    Coordinating the implementation of regulatory and legislative initiatives, communicating changes to the business, ensuring all necessary tools to comply with regulation/legislation are in place
•    Ensuring trading desks remain compliant with Front Office Risk and Control (FORC), Financial Markets Standard & Industry Codes of Conduct requirements, frameworks and procedures 
•    Managing Treasury businesses with adhering with Enterprise Risk Management Framework requirements partnering with cross functions specifically Legal, Compliance and Control Officers
•    Managing cross business strategic projects & ad hoc requests (e.g. regulator queries)
•    Deploying specific frameworks and processes that can deliver the businesses strategic objectives
•    Working with the business on the development of new products, including scoping and business case build-out, solution design and infrastructure coordination, due-diligence and ratification
•    Reviewing incoming materials for adequacy and appropriateness in advance, ensuring related discussion with Heads of Business is meaningful and impactful

What we’re looking for:
•    Solid grasp of a Treasury/Markets asset class business and financial products (securities, money markets, IRS, FX)
•    COO/Business Manager / Finance / Risk and Control experience supporting Treasury or Market trading facing teams
•    Excellent comprehension of the financial regulatory landscape (EAPO, Volcker, Codes of Conduct etc)
•    Proactive approach to enhancing existing processes & procedures, and developing knowledge of the Business in order to support various strategic business initiatives & control objectives

Skills that will help you in the role:
•    Knowledge of trading/risk management systems, operational front to back flows and key control points
•    Excellent communication skills, both presentational and verbal
•    Knowledge of Treasury products preferred
•    Background and experience in controls and governance

Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.



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