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SalarySales and Trading Assistant
London
As a Barclays Sales and Trading Assistant, you will work within our Global Markets business covering the Macro franchise. You will manage specific trade management and related functions in a fast-paced and dynamic environment and maintain a high degree of accuracy around trade capture, which is crucial to the firm's risk management and accurate books and records. This involves entering and accepting the economic terms of any trades, inclusive of subsequent Risk Modifying Activities, encompassing a broad range of Trade Capture activity.
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 primary assistance to FX & Structured Rates Trading & Sales, this role is based on the trading floor
- Conducting timely and accurate Risk Modifying Activities; Trade Capture, Post Trade Activities, and Position Changes
- Covering various products; FX Spot, FX Forwards, NDFs, FX Options, FX Exotic Options, FX Structured Notes, & Structured Rates Derivatives
- Liaising with internal counterparts regarding exception and query management
- Adhering to a ‘right first time’ policy on all risk modifying activities
- Providing timely and accurate portfolio compression pricing, analysis, execution co-ordination and processing
- Identifying, raising, and testing improvements for all BAU processes proactively
- Seeking cross-training opportunities for all functions performed within the team and across the wider department
- Significant experience in an operational environment
- Knowledge of Markets (Interest Rate Derivatives, FX)
- Bachelor’s degree, ideally in one of the following subjects; Mathematics/Computer Science/Business/Finance
- A good grasp of the Front to Back lifecycle of a trade and its associated risks to the firm and to clients
- Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Solid knowledge of VBA, SQL or Python
- Experience gained in high volume and client focused environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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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