VP, Prime Services Transition Management

Barclays • New York, NY

2d • $150,000 - $225,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Join Barclays as VP, Prime Services Transition Management, where you will guide clients through a seamless journey from mandate to full integration on the Barclays Prime platform, ensuring a high-quality onboarding experience across products, markets, and entities. Operating at the intersection of client engagement and internal coordination, you’ll serve as the central point of contact for all pre-launch activity—partnering closely with Sales, Legal, Credit, KYC, Operations, and other key teams to align requirements and deliver a smooth transition. Your work will blend product translation, stakeholder coordination, and structured project execution to help clients activate trading capabilities efficiently while ensuring the platform is configured for long term success.

Requirements

• Experience in a client‑facing role within financial services
• Deep working knowledge of the Hedge Fund and Asset Manager landscape, with emphasis on clearing, settlement, and financing across products and strategies
• Solid working knowledge of Cash Equities, Bonds, Repo, and Equity Synthetics
• Willingness to lead improvements, enhance processes, and strengthen end‑to‑end workflows, supported by a consistent history of delivering quality outcomes
• Experience managing senior relationships at institutional clients and guiding the client experience from start to finish
• Thoughtful and detail‑oriented, with the ability to work comfortably and confidently in a self‑directed way while contributing within a team environment and possesses effective people‑centered communication skills
• Excellent verbal and written skills with ability to multi-task, prioritize and excel in organizational management
• Works well in a team environment and has effective high‑quality relationship‑building skills to liaise both internally and externally
• Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
• Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in Transition Management is beneficial
• Knowledge of Exchange Traded Derivatives, OTC Clearing and FXPB is preferred
• Series 7, 63 is helpful but not required

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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, they 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 a number of 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.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People 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.
• For an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will 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.
• Guide clients through a seamless journey from mandate to full integration on the Barclays Prime platform, ensuring a high-quality onboarding experience across products, markets, and entities.
• Serve as the central point of contact for all pre-launch activity—partnering closely with Sales, Legal, Credit, KYC, Operations, and other key teams to align requirements and deliver a smooth transition.
• Blend product translation, stakeholder coordination, and structured project execution to help clients activate trading capabilities efficiently while ensuring the platform is configured for long term success.

Benefits

• Minimum Salary: $150,000
• Maximum Salary: $225,000
• The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes 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