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Date live: Dec. 11, 2024

Business Area: Macro

Area of Expertise: Early Careers

Reference Code: JR-0000024327

Contract: Graduate

Overall purpose of role

To support a team of traders in building and maintaining tools to help find trading opportunities, track market data, perform ad hoc customized analysis in producing business critical reports

Key Accountabilities

  • Work on analytical tools and models used by desk
  • Run business critical processes
  • Support desk with performance analytics / dashboards / reports
  • Handle ad-hoc queries of Sales, Trader, Senior Management etc..

Stakeholder Management and Leadership

  • The candidate would need to interact with the Onshore Team and counterparts globally.
  • The role involves constant liaising with regional stakeholders, regional and local Compliance, Legal and Chief Controls teams.
  • The candidate would have to work with regional teams to understand requirements, develop new products and drive development of ongoing business initiatives and daily support. The candidate is expected to come up with innovative ideas and business solutions, to deliver accurate final output in an optimal way.

Decision-making and Problem Solving

  • The candidate should have an excellent eye for detail and should ensure that he/she meets a zero error tolerance requirement as most output forms a critical input for business decision making.
  • The candidate needs to work on several time sensitive activities and hence is required to be meticulous and efficient.
  • The role involves working with the business and functions in identifying optimal solutions supporting decision-making on both day-to-day items as well as driving strategic initiatives.

Risk and Control Objective

  • The candidate will need to ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, the Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies

Purpose of the role

To participate in the day-to-day activities of the SMAD electronic trading 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 SMAD electronic training.
  • 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 SMAD electronic training.
  • Management of client relationships and provision of customer service support to clients and customers, under steadily decreasing supervision, responding to questions about products and services, processing of transactions,.
  • Management of the development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support in decision making for SMAD electronic training.
  • Training and mentoring of junior colleagues.

Analyst Expectations

  • 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.

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