Financing Risk Lead – VP

At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future – we create it. Join us as a Financing Risk Lead – VP, where you will shape and advance the core capabilities of the Prime Services Front Office Risk Platform (Liquid Financing). You will contribute to a dynamic and expanding portfolio of risk initiatives, partnering with global teams to deliver high‑quality solutions across intraday risk, financing analytics, market intelligence, and controls.
This role requires a strong technical and delivery‑oriented leader—someone who brings hands‑on problem‑solving ability, domain awareness, and the capability to drive complex projects end‑to‑end for the Liquid Financing business.

To be successful in this role, you should have experience with:

• Bringing a strong technical foundation with hands‑on development experience in any programming language (Java experience is beneficial but not mandatory).

• Demonstrated expertise in Python and SQL, including data analysis, workflow automation, and building clean, efficient scripts.

• Driving projects and initiatives independently, with a track record of converting ideas into deliverables through strong ownership, planning, and execution.

• Working in banking, capital markets, or financial institutions—mandatory for external candidates—with exposure to trades, pricing, or risk concepts.

• Applying or learning risk domain knowledge (e.g., interest‑rate risk, exposure metrics, market risk analytics); awareness is helpful but can be gained on the job.

Some of the Highly Valued Skills may include:

• Strong technical proficiency in Python, SQL, and analytical tooling.

• Ability to lead a small team, mentor developers, and drive both business and technology outcomes.

• A proactive ownership mindset—demonstrating initiative, problem‑solving, and the ability to lead projects beyond people management responsibilities.

• Experience in financial institutions or fintech, with baseline understanding of markets, trades, lifecycle events, or financing workflows.

• Leadership qualities such as stakeholder management, decision‑making, structured communication, and delivery excellence in high‑pace environments. 
  

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. 

The location of the role is Pune

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

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.