Liquid Financing Risk Manager

Prime Liquid Financing Risk Manager
New York
This role is regulated by FINRA.
As a Barclays Prime Liquid Financing Risk Manager, you'll play a key role in managing the risk in the Liquid Financing portfolio. This is an opportunity to drive projects in collaboration with IT/QA to enhance risk analytics, risk visibility and risk management in addition to providing key technical expertise to internal and external stakeholders. In this client facing role, you'll have the chance to work with sales and prospective and existing clients of Liquid Financing which include most major hedge funds, pensions, asset managers etc.
Salary / Rate Minimum: 125,000
Salary / Rate Maximum: 170,000
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We've helped millions of individuals and businesses thrive, creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted. An important and growing presence in the USA, we offer careers providing endless opportunity.
Colleagues who have applied for 'onsite' roles are expected to work four or five days a week at the selected workplace, contingent upon their specific role and business area requirements. If you're applying for a position, please discuss the working pattern specifics with the hiring manager. It's important to note that we are constantly adapting our working environment, and as a result, working arrangements can be adjusted with reasonable notice to align with our business needs.
What will you be doing?
• Using your in-depth knowledge of various factors effecting valuation of multiple asset classes to simulate portfolio risk
• Managing quantitative analytics to understand and explain risk exposures across global client portfolios through direct data and access and development
• Being responsible for overseeing the day to day risk management of customer portfolios and risk analytics
• Calibrating, maintaining, and managing various risk limits for Liquid Financing clients
• Having a close engagement with control partners to manage prudent views of risk exposures for clients and make decisions on deploying leverage solutions to clients
• Supporting clients on contract architecture, business/term negotiations, and calibrating limits and leverage solutions
• Collaborating with trading desks to develop robust liquidation protocols
• Dealing with regulators on explaining the Liquid Financing landscape and an understanding and articulation of risks facing the business through the economic cycle
What we're looking for:
• Bachelor's in a quantitative field, plus three years of experience in related field such as Prime Financing and a trading background
• Comprehensive understanding of financing across the asset mix and product suite (prime, clearing and repo)
• Experience in cross assets quantitative analytics, including pricing, risk analytics, liquidity assessment, margin analytics and methodologies - calibration assessment
• Experience working with large amounts of data, presenting it in simple formats, concluding analyses and perform ad-hoc risk analysis for internal stakeholders as well as clients
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Qualitative skills: personable and capable to work
• Communicative and collaborative with control partners and other colleagues within the firm and engaging with clients at senior level (CFO, Head of Treasury, and Portfolio Manager)
• Deep understanding of exposures for existing and prospective clients for their existing and model portfolios
• Prior experience working and collaborating with control partners such as legal, credit risk etc. and management stakeholders on taking risk decisions
Where will you be working?
You will be working at our Americas Headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue. This 32-story office tower is located in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan and features a cafeteria, fitness center and state-of-the-art LED signage on the facade of the building.