# Trading and Risk Management Role

**Company**: Barclays
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The purpose of this role is to execute trades and manage risk within a defined portfolio of financial instruments, staying informed about market trends and developments to make informed trading decisions.

**Accountabilities:**

- Execute buy and sell orders or price liquidity in various financial instruments while adhering to the bank's trading strategies and risk parameters.

- Monitor and analyse global financial markets, economic indicators, news, and geopolitical events to identify trading opportunities and assess market risks.

- Manage and monitor the risk associated with the trading portfolio and ensure compliance with regulatory and internal risk management guidelines.

- Collaborate with research analysts and other teams to gather insights and information for trading decisions.

**Director Expectations:**

- 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.

- Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function.

- Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.

- Escalate breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.

- Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed.

- Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays.

- 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.

- Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in 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/business 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.

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.

## Skills

### Required
- financial instruments
- risk management
- trading strategies
- market analysis
- regulatory compliance

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