Treasury Trading Assistant

Treasury Trading Assistant

As a Treasury Trading Assistant, you will ensure the firm is funded in line with projected requirements and manage the internal funding of businesses across the bank. You will comply with all internal and external liquidity limits and manage the collateral and margining of secured transactions.

Key Accountabilities

• Ensure BI has sufficient liquidity to fund and comply with ongoing regulatory requirements.
• Help ensure all regulatory and internal liquidity stress requirements are met and that the future evolution of BI’s Balance Sheet is considered.
• Ensure risk, P&L, and Balance Sheet are accurately measured and reported, including daily and monthly explanations.

• Effectively manage internal funding execution.
• Possess knowledge of Interest Rate Risk.

• Carry out daily processes and utilise cross-firm networks and authoritative understanding to improve process efficiency.
• Understand trader mandates and have a proven ability to operate effectively within a trader mandate.

Contribute to broader team execution across different platforms (internal only) to ensure thorough coverage of funding and investment requirements, as well as comprehensive risk management.

• Demonstrate an understanding of how funding moves through the bank from front to back.
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the hedging of the banking book and transfer pricing processes.

Purpose of the Role

To buy and sell financial instruments, such as bonds, stocks, and derivatives, to generate revenue for the bank by analyzing market conditions, executing trades, and managing risk.

Accountabilities

• Develop and implement trading strategies that align with the bank's risk appetite, investment objectives, and market conditions, monitoring market movements to adjust trading strategies accordingly.
• Execute trades on behalf of the bank or proprietary trading desks while adhering to the bank's trading strategies and risk parameters.
• Maintain accurate and timely trading records, prepare daily and monthly trading reports, and contribute to the evaluation of the overall trading strategy.
• Monitor and analyze 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, including setting and maintaining stop-loss limits and ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal risk management guidelines.
• Raise unsecured funding in the International Money Market.
• Execute Structural Hedges for hedging IRRBB.

Analyst Expectations

• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Take responsibility for the end result of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies/procedures appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision-making within your area of expertise.
• Take ownership of managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulations, and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how your sub-function integrates with the function, alongside knowledge of the organization’s products, services, and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organization sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgments based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex/sensitive information.
• Act as a contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function while building a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organization.

"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. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave."

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