# Vice President, Asia FX & Rates Strategy Research

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

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced senior strategist to join our Asia FX & Rates Strategy Research team. The successful candidate will combine deep macroeconomic expertise, quantitative rigour and strong market intuition to deliver high-conviction investment views across Emerging Asia FX and local rates markets.

Key Responsibilities:

- Develop differentiated views on macroeconomic, policy, valuation, flow and technical drivers

- Generate high-conviction trade recommendations across FX, government bonds, money markets, swaps, futures and cross-market relative value opportunities

- Develop proprietary analytical frameworks and quantitative models to enhance forecasting, scenario analysis, risk assessment and idea generation

- Publish timely, insightful and commercially relevant research that combines rigorous analysis with clear investment implications for clients

- Drive thematic research initiatives on key regional and global macroeconomic issues

- Analyse central bank policy, fiscal developments, balance-of-payments dynamics and investor flows across Asia to identify emerging market opportunities and risks

- Collaborate closely with economists, equity strategists, credit strategists and global macro teams to deliver integrated cross-asset investment views

- Build and maintain strong relationships with institutional investors

- Represent Barclays' research views through client meetings, roadshows, conferences, webinars, media engagement and other external forums

Required Skills and Experience:

- Significant experience in FX strategy, rates strategy, macro research, economics, trading or related financial market roles, with a strong focus on Asian markets

- Fluency in English is required, with Mandarin fluency preferred

- Deep understanding of Emerging Asia macroeconomics, central bank policy, foreign exchange markets, local rates markets and cross-asset interactions

- Demonstrated track record of generating actionable investment ideas and communicating investment views to institutional investors

- Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities, including experience in econometric modelling, forecasting, scenario analysis and market strategy development

## Skills

### Required
- macroeconomics
- quantitative analysis
- financial markets
- FX strategy
- rates strategy
- Python
- data analysis
- econometric modelling
- forecasting
- scenario analysis
- market strategy development
- English
- Mandarin

### Nice to have
- established reputation among institutional investors
- strong client engagement skills
- intellectual curiosity
- independent thinking
- passion for financial markets
- entrepreneurial mindset
- leadership qualities

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