EQUITIES DERIVATIVES MIDDLE OFFICE ANALYST

As a Barclays Equities Derivatives Middle Office Analyst, you will join our engaged team to become responsibe for providing an exceptional level of support to our global trading businesses. In your new role, you will act as a first point of contact for all front-line issues regarding life cycle management queries across the Trading desks, while also  working closely with Operations to deal with other ad hoc operational issues within the business.

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?

• Acting as the main contact point for life cycle management and trade related requests (amends/ process/ bespoke treatments)

• Providing lifecycle and ad-hoc issue/ request management support to trading desks

• Resolving reconciliation breaks in the trade capture systems for the trading desks

• Working with wider operations and settlement teams to improve break and query workflow

• Working with all of the different aspects relating to the front to back capture and lifecycle of Structured and Flow Derivatives trades

• Communicating with the trading team in order to improve the flow of information within different teams involved in the business

• Acting as the main point of contact for trade lifecycle related queries from infrastructure partners such as Trading, Sales, Operations, Product Control and Market Risk 

• Assisting the business with their strategic and regulatory projects

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Maths, Engineering, Physics or Economics

• Experience and understanding of the complete front to back lifecycle of a various Structured & Flow Derivatives 

• Attention to detail towards Trades and processes

• Ability to prioritise tasks, ad-hoc queries and issues based on Risk involved

SKILLS THAT WILL HELP YOU IN THE ROLE:

• Self-starter towards improvement and identifying control gaps with can do positive trouble shooting attitude

• Ability to build, maintain relationships with other key areas within the bank with Trading, Technology, Middle office and front office stakeholders, such as Sales and Structuring

• Basic programming skills or experience with Macro’s and VBA knowledge

• Organized individual with good time management skills and ability to meet deadlines

WHERE WILL YOU BE WORKING?

At Barclays, we are proud to be redefining the future of finance and here at New York 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 New York, 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.