COUNTERPARTY CREDIT RISK ANALYST

As a Barclays Counterparty Credit Risk Analyst you will sanction and monitor credit exposures, ensuring adequate monitoring and control of credit exposures arising from trading activities. You will work with a team of Risk managers who interface between Front Office functions and Risk counterparty credit sanctioning areas. Providing a credit control function which is responsible for limit monitoring, excess/exposure management and providing credit clearance for flow derivative products.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.

WHAT WILL YOU  BE DOING?

• Supporting the Front Office during trading hours to obtain trade clearance across a wide product base including all Derivatives & Securities Financing Transactions

• Maintaining all Electronic Platforms (Reuters/EBS) and understand the mechanics behind them

• Interacting with Credit Sanctioners and the Front Office on a daily basis

• Playing a pivotal role in managing Credit Crisis alerts

• Dealing with regular and ad hoc report requests

• Performing Project work and systems testing

• Understanding the risks arising from the different products and the methodology used by the systems to calculate the risk numbers

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Excellent performance in a business or numerate degree, or equivalent 

• Knowledge of wide range of financial products, including all derivatives (Interest Rate, FX, Equity and Commodity), exchange trading, Securities Financing Transactions

• Motivated and individually focussed while at the same time patient and collaborative

• Flexible, excellent communicator, be able to build wide and strong networks with key stakeholders and beyond

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:

• Experience of credit risk management and control systems and a working knowledge of or desire to learn VBA & SQL is preferable

• Experience of working directly with commercial traders and sales people

• Experience in a role that was responsible for routine reporting and/or MIS production

WHERE WILL YOU BE WORKING?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at Whippany we are defining the future of the workplace and the future of the way we work and live. We are creating a unique community, one of four strategic tech-enabled hubs that will redefine opportunity for everyone who works here. Whatever you do at Whippany, you’ll have every chance to build a world-class career in this world-class environment.

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 50 countries and employing around 83,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted. A career with us can offer incredible variety, depth and breadth of experience, and the chance to learn from some of the best minds in technology and finance.