Associate Director

Join Barclays as an Associate Director, where you will be responsible for managing debt relationships with high-value corporate clients and potential clients. In this role, you will also manage debt structuring risk across the firm and maintain relationships with stakeholders within target companies to understand their needs and recommend suitable solutions.

Essential Skills

• Strong communicator.
• Discretion and ability to handle confidential, sensitive, and legally privileged information.
• Proactive and motivated individual with structured thinking and the ability to multi-task in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills, reliability, and a priority for ownership.
• Strong knowledge of MS Office packages.

Desired Skills

• A desire for continued learning.
• Business development skills.

You may be assessed on key critical skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the Role

To manage debt relationships with high-value corporate clients and potential clients. Provide support to the bank's senior management team in setting strategic direction and managing debt structuring risk across the organization.

Accountabilities

• Collaborate with account managers to structure, recommend, and implement relevant debt products and services to existing and potential clients.
• Manage debt structuring, including oversight of colleagues and their performance, implementation of departmental goals and objectives, and oversight of department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Manage relationships with debt structuring stakeholders, including identifying relevant stakeholders and maintaining the quality of external third-party services.
• Manage key stakeholder relationships within target companies to understand their needs and recommend appropriate solutions.
• Manage debt structuring risk, including identification of potential risks, development of strategies to mitigate those risks, and maintenance of alignment between the bank’s debt structuring and compliance functions.
• Monitor the financial performance of each completed transaction as well as the wider debt structuring department, including revenue, profitability, and cost control.
• Conduct thorough market research to understand market trends, competitive landscape, and regulatory changes to identify market opportunities.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions and business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives, and determine reward outcomes.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviors are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• For an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments, and identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, identifying a combination of cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues, providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls related to the work done.
• Perform work closely related to that of other areas, requiring understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to achieving the organization's sub-function objectives.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in a complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practices, to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information, which could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate due to its content or audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues are 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.