Structured Products Middle Office SME

London, United Kingdom

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Date live: 11/10/2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Operations

Reference Code: 90273364

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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Structured Products Middle Office SME
London

As a Barclays Structured Products Middle Office Subject Matter Expert (SME) you will focus on the Structured Credit business and act as the primary SME and business contact. You will do this by forging good relationships with clients, Front Office and various internal Ops teams including Trade Capture, Trading Assistants, Pre & Post Settlements, Asset Servicing, Know Your Customer and Client Data to resolve and respond to queries.

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.
This opportunity is open to dynamic working arrangements. Such as working from home, flexible or compressed hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please apply and discuss this with us during the hiring process.

What will you be doing?
• Handling escalations across Global Trading and ensure timely resolution
• Collaborating with IBMO managers to ensure completeness and accuracy of processes
• Liaising with client escalations and being accountable for daily processes
• Operating as the point of contact and escalation for both internal and external client queries and liaise with various business areas and front-to-end support teams to seek resolution
• Collaborating with global counterparts and different stakeholders to drive opportunities for process development and improvements
• Implementing and execution of re-designed/ engineered processes to improve BAU efficiency and accuracy, and follow through into post implementation measure of success
• Driving and leading process and controls enhancements and running through to completion
• Escalating open risk and control points in a timely manner to ensure timely settlement of trades externally as well as ensuring trade capture integrity

What we’re looking for:
• Extensive experience within Investment Banking
• Good understanding of Risk and Control frameworks
• Solid Repo, Credit and Rates product knowledge as well as Bonds and Derivatives
• Knowledge of electronic platforms for trading and confirmations including Bloomberg, TradeWeb, MarketAxess, Omgeo CTM and FIX

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Good understanding of the end-to-end process flows and the control points along the process chain

Where will you be working?
5 North Colonnade is home to our investment bank and is in the heart of Canary Wharf, just a short walk from our headquarters at Churchill Place. It boasts an array of onsite amenities such as dry cleaner as well as a deli and buffet style staff restaurant. The building is easily accessible by tube, docklands light railway and all major bus links. The atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.

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