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.