Director - Global Markets

London, United Kingdom

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Date live: 21/04/2026

Business Area: Equities

Area of Expertise: Markets

Reference Code: JR-0000108199

Contract: Permanent

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Join Our Front Office Team in Liquid Financing

Step into a dynamic front office role within the Liquid Financing team, where you will serve as the First Line of Defence (FLOD) for the firm’s financing business within the in-business risk and margin team. This role spans a broad range of products including cash prime brokerage, synthetic financing (Delta One), derivatives clearing (Cleared OTC & ETD), intermediation (FXPB), and fixed income financing (DM/EM Government & Corporate) across multiple asset classes such as equities, rates, credit, commodities, FX, and securitised products.

In this cross-product, cross-asset capacity, you will engage directly with the firm’s largest clients—including major hedge funds and asset managers—focusing on counterparty risk management, framework design, and structuring terms aligned with the firm’s underwriting standards. Your objective will be to maximise risk-adjusted returns across the liquid financing business while ensuring appropriate risk coverage.

Key responsibilities include:

Gaining a deep understanding of clients’ trading strategies and working closely with their risk, treasury, and portfolio financing teams.
Assessing risk and liquidity management practices and evaluating financing or clearing requirements.
Designing efficient structures and compensating controls to optimise the firm’s risk-return profile.
Collaborating with internal stakeholders across Risk, Credit, Sales, Legal, and Markets Management to monitor existing portfolios and onboard new clients.
Leading initiatives with technology and quant partners to enhance risk analytics, visibility, and management tools, while providing technical expertise to both internal and external stakeholders.
Monitoring the risk exposures for the liquid financing client base and taking appropriate actions to ensure prudent collateralisation.

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:

Risk management: Experience in measuring, articulating, and consolidating risk exposures across regions and asset classes.
Cross-asset market knowledge: Equities, Rates, Credit, FX, Commodities, Volatility, Securitised Products.
Understanding of financing and clearing: Cash Prime, Synthetics/Delta One, Derivatives Clearing.
Quantitative analytics: Pricing, risk analytics, liquidity assessment, margin methodologies (design and calibration).
Data analysis: Ability to analyse large datasets and derive actionable insights using tools such as Python/Jupyter.
Professional background: Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field and 8+ years’ experience in a front office financing role at a major investment bank, hedge fund, or similar institution.
Stakeholder engagement: Proven ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders on complex, bespoke transactions.
Problem-solving: Strong capabilities in connecting risk management, pricing, and return optimisation on scarce resources like balance sheet and capital.

Highly Valued Additional Skills

Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills.
Experience working with control partners such as Legal and Credit Risk.
Strategic thinking and business acumen.
Familiarity with digital tools, technology, and AI.
Demonstrated ability in risk and controls, change management, and transformation.

Purpose of the role

Liquid Finance Platform covers a variety of roles and is central to the delivery of best-in-class products and services, and for the provision of strategic client and risk solutions across the full spectrum of the Prime Financing businesses.

Accountabilities

Working with clients to optimise the Liquid Financing relationship
Provide best-in-class service and escalation oversight
Primary contact for Liquid Financing clients in areas such as trading, risk, billing and reporting
Provide expertise on industry and regulatory initiatives
Subject matter expert for our clients, with a deep understanding of each client’s business mix, operational requirements and product sensitivities

Director Expectations

To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

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.

More about working at Barclays

Barclays offices across the UK are designed to be places where our people can come together to do their best work, surrounded by excellent facilities for both work and leisure. These are warm, diverse, supportive communities in some of the UK’s best locations, where everyone can thrive.

Our approach to hybrid working ensures there’s the right balance of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, as required for each role. For business areas that offer a hybrid working experience, this will be in a structured way, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week. Some roles may require full onsite working. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager.

We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with the needs of our business.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture and environment, that recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives, as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs.

Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

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