Treasury Trading Assistant

As a Treasury Trading Assistant you will ensure the firm is funded in line with projected requirements and have management of internal funding of businesses across the bank. You will comply with all internal and external liquidity limits and manage the collateral and margining of secured transactions.

Key Accountabilities

Funding and Hedging
- Ensure BI has sufficient liquidity to fund, as well as, comply with ongoing regulatory requirements
- Help to ensure all regulatory and internal liquidity stress requirements are met, and that the future evolution of BI’s Balance Sheet is considered
- Ensure risk, P&L, and Balance Sheet are accurately measured and reported, including daily and monthly explains

Market Knowledge
- Effectively manage internal funding execution
- Knowledge of Interest Rate Risk

Process
- Carry out daily processes and utilise cross-firm networks and authoritative understanding to improve process efficiency
- Understands trader mandates, and has a proven ability to operate effectively within a trader mandate

Execution
- Contributes to broader team execution across different platforms (internal only), to ensure thorough coverage of funding and investment requirements as well as comprehensive risk management.

Business and product knowledge
- Demonstrates an understanding of how funding moves through the bank from front-back.
- Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of the hedging of the banking book and transfer pricing processes.

**Purpose of the role**

To buy and sell financial instruments, such as bonds, stocks, and derivatives, to generate revenue for the bank by the analysis of market conditions, execution of trades, and management of risk.

**Accountabilities**
- Development and implementation of trading strategies that align with the bank's risk appetite, investment objectives, and market conditions, and monitoring of market movements to adjust trading strategies accordingly.
- Execution of trades on behalf of the bank, or proprietary trading desks, while adhering to the bank's trading strategies and risk parameters.
- Maintenance of accurate and timely trading records, prepare daily and monthly trading reports, and contribute to the evaluation of the overall trading strategy.
- Monitoring and analysis of global financial markets, economic indicators, news, and geopolitical events to identify trading opportunities and assess market risks.
- Management and monitoring of the risk associated with the trading portfolio, including setting and maintaining stop-loss limits and ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal risk management guidelines.
- Raise unsecured funding in the International Money Market.
- Execution of Structural Hedges for hedging IRRBB.

**Analyst Expectations**
- Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
- Partner with other functions and business areas.
- Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
- Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
- Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
- Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
- Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.