Quantitative Analytics Liquid Financing VP

Barclays • New York, NY

23h • Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of the role is to provide quantitative and analytical expertise to support trading strategies, risk management, and decision-making within the investment banking domain. This involves applying quantitative analysis, mathematical modelling, and technology to optimize trading and investment opportunities. The role focuses on Risk and Margin methodologies within the Prime Risk team, which sets and monitors client margin and risk. Responsibilities include the maintenance and development of margin methodologies for a range of financial products and models/analytics to monitor existing client exposures. The Vice President will contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. They will plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements; and escalate breaches of policies/procedures. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead specialists to influence department operations, aligning with strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short and long-term goals, and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert, guiding technical direction, leading collaborative assignments, and guiding team members. They will identify the need for other specializations, train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists, and provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions. They will advise key stakeholders on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment, manage and mitigate risks, demonstrate leadership in managing risk and strengthening controls, and possess a comprehensive understanding of the organization's functions to contribute to business goals. Collaboration with other areas is expected to stay updated on business activity and strategies. Solutions will be created based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions, incorporating extensive research. Building and maintaining trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders is key, using influencing and negotiating skills. All colleagues are expected to demonstrate Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship) and the Barclays Mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).

Requirements

• Experience with Fixed Income or Equity products and models
• Familiar with Calculus, Linear Algebra, and data analysis using AI ML techniques
• Extensive working knowledge of Python and familiarity with object-oriented programming
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complicated concepts in a simple, non-technical way, to a variety of internal stakeholders
• A track record of delivering projects and working on multiple initiatives in parallel

Nice To Haves

• Experience working on Prime Brokerage, XVA, or Corporate Treasury desks
• Knowledge of financial products relevant to the Liquid Financing business, e.g. repo, margin loans, futures, and equity options
• Knowledge of margin methodologies and stress scenarios
• Experience with cross-platform / cross-technology development (Windows/Linux), CI/CD, workflow automation (AWS, Kubernetes), and databases
• Experience with data visualization tools, interface and libraries (e.g. Jupyter, Dash, Rest API)
• Experience with AI coding assistants such as Claude Code

Responsibilities

• Development and implementation of quantitative models and strategies to derive insight into market trends and optimize trading decisions, pricing, and risk management across various financial products and markets.
• Working closely with sales teams to identify clients' needs and develop customised solutions.
• In-depth research, data analysis, and statistical modelling to derive insights into market trends, pricing, and risk dynamics.
• Provide front office infrastructure support though ownership and maintenance of analytical libraries.
• Provision of expertise on quantitative methodologies, technological advancements, and industry best practices to drive innovation within the trading environment.
• Contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
• Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
• Lead specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• As an individual contributor, be a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction.
• Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
• Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
• Maintenance and development of margin methodologies for a range of financial products.
• Development of models/analytics to monitor existing client exposures.

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: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed