Trading Controls Analyst Glasgow, Scotland
Job description
Trading Controls Analyst
Glasgow
As a Barclays Trading Controls Analyst, you’ll manage exceptions associated with tradability rules for the Markets business. You’ll provide project management support to the Preventative Controls workstream as the new tradability controls are being designed, implemented, tested, and rolled out. You’ll work with global Investment Bank Middle Office (IBMO) management, and various infrastructure partners to ensure there are effective communication channels to deliver the optimal support model to manage the risks associated with the tradability controls.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. 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.
- Providing project management support for the new and enhanced tradability controls including supporting user acceptance testing (UAT)
- Leading the mmonitoring tradability controls exception management notifications
- Providing exception management triage where required across the tradability controls
- Ensuring timely resolution of by liaising with Sales, Wholesale Onboarding, Client Regulatory, Legal, and Business Management teams
- Preparing and maintaining key procedures for BAU tasks according to Barclays policy
- Being the day-to-day business contact for the Sales desk and Trading desks relating to the tradability control exceptions
- Detail-oriented with good communication both written and verbal skills
- Excellent organisational and time-management skills with the ability to multi-task and the ability to work under pressure to observe deadlines
- A general knowledge of the trade lifecycle
- OTC product knowledge (Equity Derivatives, Futures, Swaps, FX Forwards and/or Interest Rate Swaps)
- Advanced Excel to macro level
- Working knowledge of operational risk & control processes and practices
Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.
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