Trader Director

Join us as a Director - Treasury, where you will lead Treasury team in India, responsible for capital, liquidity, funding and investment activities for the India branch, manage the INR investment portfolio, and act as a key stakeholder in ALCO forums and regulatory engagements.
To be successful as a Director-Treasury, you should bring deep experience in managing INR and FCY funding, fixed income investments, and Treasury governance while supervising business-related funding requirements across the India franchise.
You will be assessed on your ability to lead Treasury interactions, manage regulatory and rating agency expectations, and drive investment strategy and issuance programs with precision and accountability.

Basic/Essential Qualifications:
1.    Experienced in managing funding (INR and FCYs) for an India branch.
2.    Familiar with investment in INR fixed income (FX swap, INR Govt Bonds, INR swap). This person will run the INR investment portfolio for the bank
3.    This role will be a manager role
4.    This role will be the key Treasury Stakeholder for PLC India ALCO meetings, and lead Treasury engagement with business stakeholders in Mumbai, as well as external counterparties, i.e. regulators or rating agencies
5.    Able to supervise India business related entities’ funding needs and lead Treasury initiatives associated with franchise growth.  Treasury experience of wider India franchise for a foreign bank in India would be a plus.

6.    Supervise India related issuance program (i.e. INR CP).

7.    Deep understanding of regulatory requirements both locally and globally including LCR, NSFR, ALM and capital metrics

Desirable skillsets/good to have:
1.     Funding or Investment experience in other Asia markets besides India. 

Job location is Mumbai.
This role is regulated by National Futures Association (NFA).  

Purpose of the role

To buy and sell financial instruments, such as bonds, stocks, and derivatives, to generate revenue for the bank by the analysis of market conditions, execution of trades, and management of risk.  

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of trading strategies that align with the bank's risk appetite, investment objectives, and market conditions, and monitoring of market movements to adjust trading strategies accordingly.
• Execution of trades on behalf of the bank, or proprietary trading desks, while adhering to the bank's trading strategies and risk parameters.
• Maintenance of accurate and timely trading records, prepare daily and monthly trading reports, and contribute to the evaluation of the overall trading strategy.
• Monitoring and analysis of global financial markets, economic indicators, news, and geopolitical events to identify trading opportunities and assess market risks.
• Management and monitoring of the risk associated with the trading portfolio, including setting and maintaining stop-loss limits and ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal risk management guidelines.
• Raise unsecured funding in the International Money Market.
• Execution of Structural Hedges for hedging IRRBB.

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.