Portfolio Hedging & Optimization, Analyst

Barclays • New York, NY

22h • $100,000 - $125,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Portfolio Hedging & Optimization (PH&O) team structures and executes risk transfer trades. The primary responsibility of this role is to support the origination and ongoing management of these structured trades. This role will support the assessment, structuring, and execution of new Significant Risk Transfer (SRT) transactions, including due diligence, portfolio construction, and transaction structuring. The Analyst will coordinate with internal deal teams and external partners, including legal counsel and investors, to support documentation review, negotiation, and execution processes. Additionally, the Analyst will support the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of SRT transactions, including replenishment, credit event and cashflow processes, and reporting obligations. The role also involves identifying and facilitating process enhancements to improve SRT program efficiency, contributing to strategic efforts, and supporting senior management in responding to regulatory, audit, and governance queries. The Analyst will engage with a broad range of internal stakeholders (e.g., Treasury, Risk, Quantitative Analytics, Middle Office) and external parties.

Requirements

• Effective communication with both internal and external stakeholders
• Decision support and recommendation development, underpinned by quantitative and legal documentation analysis
• Consistent delivery of high-quality output under tight timelines, with the ability to adapt to changing circumstances and operate with a collaborative, team-oriented mindset
• Operational process design and optimization, with a demonstrated history of improving efficiency and productivity
• General understanding of the SRT (Significant Risk Transfer) transaction structure and broad knowledge of the market
• Understanding of corporate loan portfolio management and the associated credit risk
• Excellent follow-through, demonstrated sense of ownership and a willingness to contribute across both evaluative and operational aspects of transaction execution
• Detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in fast-paced execution environments while guiding multiple priorities
• Quantitative foundation and demonstrated ability to apply interpretative thinking to multi-layered project and transaction-oriented problems
• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• Job-specific technical skills

Nice To Haves

• Experience with origination and ongoing management of structured trades.
• Experience with investor engagement.
• Experience with wider portfolio optimization initiatives, analytics, returns and model enhancements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal Structuring, Treasury and Middle Office to execute new structured transactions, as part of a deal team.
• Ongoing management and optimization of the structured transactions, partnering with internal teams and external parties such as law firms/verification agents, rating agencies and agent banks.
• Support with investor engagement including queries related to existing and prospective transactions, together with relationship/Sales teams.
• Support of wider portfolio optimization initiatives as well as analytics, returns and model enhancements.
• Coordinate with internal deal teams and external partners, including legal counsel and investors, to support documentation review, negotiation, and execution processes.
• Support the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of SRT transactions, including replenishment, credit event and cashflow processes, and reporting obligations.
• Identify and facilitate process enhancements to improve SRT program efficiency.
• Contribute to strategic efforts, including the preparation of materials for senior forums and strategy making.
• Support senior management in responding to regulatory, audit, and governance queries.
• Engage with a broad range of internal stakeholders (e.g. Treasury, Risk, Quantitative Analytics, Middle Office) and external parties.

Benefits

• The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed