Job Description

Purpose of the role

To maintain the smooth and efficient operation of our trading desks, providing operational support and expertise to traders, sales professionals, and other key stakeholders, helping them maximize their productivity and minimize disruptions and handling administrative tasks, and providing market information and research. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of immediate and efficient technical support to traders and sales professionals on the trading desks, resolving hardware, software, and network-related issues to ensure uninterrupted trading activities.
• Coordination of trade execution by liaising with traders, clients, and other internal teams to ensure smooth transactions.
• Maintenance and updating of trade records, transaction logs, and client databases accurately.
• Reports, presentations, and documentation preparation to support sales and trading activities.
• Monitoring of market data and assist in the analysis of financial information for trading decisions.
• Operational tasks such as processing trades, confirming orders, and resolving trade discrepancies.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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.
• OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• 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.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• 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.

Join us as an “Analyst Electronic Trading” at Barclays, the role is within the Equities Electronic Trading Team in Global Markets Mumbai supporting the New York desk. The candidate will develop new tools for portfolio and execution analysis and maintain/improve existing infrastructure.

To be a successful “Analyst Electronic Trading” ETS provides analytics suites and reporting frameworks to monitor liquidity flow, algorithm performance and client profitability across our global product offerings. Enhance functionality/usability for the below described products and add additional data points to view clients aggregate profitability.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills  relevant hands-on role requires strong analytic skills to be able to understand and support model implementation and tools.  The role requires good judgement in dealing both with short-term and longer-term projects with direct impact on the QPS data products and a strong drive to develop an in-depth understanding of QPS processes.

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Good Object Oriented Programming skills in Python
• Prior experience in SQL programming, specially Q/KDB
• Prior experience working with visualization tools such as Tableau, Dash etc. is a big positive.
• Familiarity with UNIX/LINUX environment
• Strong analytical skills
• Eye for details
• Excellent communication skills
• Flexible to work long hours when required

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Good understanding of Cash Equity Business
• Excellent Data Analytics skills
• experience working in a Quant or Data Science role

This role will be based out of Mumbai.