Equities Markets Risk VP

Join Barclays as an Equity Market Risk VP, where you will have the opportunity to provide senior oversight and governance of market risk across the global equities platform, ensuring exposures are effectively identified, measured, and controlled within the firm’s risk appetite. The VP will lead the assessment of complex risk profiles, including VaR, stress testing, and scenario analysis, delivering clear and actionable insights on potential P&L impacts under changing market conditions. Acting as a strategic partner to the Front Office, the role requires credible challenge, guidance on risk-taking decisions, and close collaboration on new products, trades, and portfolio strategies. The position also plays a key role in strengthening risk frameworks, infrastructure, and regulatory compliance, ensuring alignment with evolving internal and external requirements. Through engagement with cross-functional stakeholders, including Quantitative Analytics and Technology teams, the VP will drive continuous improvement in risk methodologies and reporting. Ultimately, this role is critical to safeguarding the firm’s capital while enabling disciplined and sustainable business growth.

To be successful as an Equities Markets Risk VP, you should have:

• Established understanding of equities markets, equity derivative products, and pricing/ risking models

• Demonstrated ability to employ quantitative methods to assess risks, forecast losses, and/ or, design stress testing

• Comfortability working against tight short-term deadlines with multiple workflows in a dynamic pressurized environment

• Demonstrated ability to inspire colleagues, get along with people

Other highly valued skills and experience include:

• Established understanding of various risk measures such as VaR, Stress testing and Greeks

• Demonstrated ability to engage with and inquire trading teams to ensure scalable controlled risk capacity

• Interest in looking for opportunities for efficiencies in the team and across the firm

You may be assessed on the 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 based in New York, NY.

Minimum Salary: $150,000
Maximum Salary: $200,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the role

To set the risk appetite setting for the Trading portfolio and active calibration & monitoring of limits

Accountabilities

• Collection and analysis of market data from various sources and ensuring risk is correctly captured, modelled and capitalised.
• Escalation of critical risk issues or breaches to Traders and senior Risk Management Leadership teams for timely action, as may be required.
• Review and provision of feedback on market risk models including change governance.
• Internal, Regulatory and Scenario stress testing for the Trading portfolio, as required.
• Steer and execution projects of market risk wide-significance e.g. FRTB, One Risk, as required.

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.