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Form of workEMEA Business Manager
London
As a Barclays EMEA Business Manager, you’ll assist the Fixed Income Credit EMEA business by fostering effective integration with the Credit Client Strategy team through partnering in business and client reviews and planning strategic goals and associated actions to achieve them. The FI Credit EMEA business primarily trades bonds, credit default swaps, total return swaps, exchange traded funds, and loans. You’ll also help the Global Credit COO team, as well as EM FIC Sales globally including international sales, local sales and corporates.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
What will you be doing?
- Providing daily business support to Credit Sales & Trading and the EM FIC Sales team
- Engaging and communicating with relevant stakeholders in IT, Product Control, Risk, Operations, etc. to achieve business goals
- Developing and optimizing business processes including working on issues relating to trading systems, risk systems and other trading orientated initiatives
- Leading as a representative on senior level working groups, forums, and committees internally and possibly externally
- Overseeing Human Resource process (e.g. leavers/movers/joiner controls, mandatory leave status, appraisals, training)
- Owning and being accountable for global regulatory projects as well as ad hoc reporting and projects
- Overseeing and leading expense management as well as budgets and performance management
- Liaising with infrastructure partners on Audits, Compliance and Risk reviews, Conformance Testing, and Unauthorized Trading reviews
What we’re looking for:
- Excellent team player who can work well and competently in high intensity and pressure environments
- Fast learner with the ability to use their initiative and apply knowledge to new situations
- Excellent project management skills
- Excellent communicator especially to senior stakeholders
Skills that will help you in the role:
- Rates product knowledge or has experience working with sales colleagues regularly is/are desirable but not essential
- Exceptional and proven organisational skills
- Proven excellent numeracy and verbal reasoning skills
- Excellent MS Excel and PowerPoint skills at preparing presentations
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
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