Macro Trading Analyst

2 weeks ago

Singapore BARCLAYS BANK PLC Full time
Roles & Responsibilities

Barclays Overview

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.

About Markets

Barclays Investment Bank's Markets teams serves their institutional investor clients by helping them to understand developments in global markets and offering execution and risk management across every major asset class in every region.

About Macro
The Macro business was established in 2014, bringing together the firm's FX, Rates, Commodities, eFICC and Local Markets offering. Barclays is a top 5 global FX firm and has been a pioneer in educating global investors about the concept of FX and Rates as asset class. We provide a consistent, high quality and uniform client experience with respect to content, pricing, liquidity and reliability.

Overall purpose of role

To be an integral member of the trading team by enhancing trading strategies via automation, leveraging on thorough knowledge of Financial Products, Quantitative Modelling and Data Science expertise by developing new tools that can allow various systems in the bank to communicate with each other, and provide the Trading Desks with an appropriate view of available information.

Key Accountabilities


• Responsible for automating and building out automated risk management analysis


• Providing Solutions to streamline FO reporting and controls


• Work closely with the Macro Sales team to support the franchise activities via automation


• Monitor Markets, Generate Trade ideas based on Quantitative and Qualitative analysis.


• Perform and develop analytical tools to identify trends, relative value, historical analysis and statistical techniques


• Perform analysis for clients outlining benefits and risk, market inefficiencies and backtesting


• Hedging Strategies – Develop new hedging strategies to facilitate marketing making activity and Build tools to support and implement them.


• Assist with managing risk of the team's trading books. Create market making and pricing tools for facilitate efficient trading.


• Utilize machine learning and AI techniques to analyse market data and identify trading opportunities.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership


• Support client franchise, working closely with Distribution and Research to provide automated solutions


• Present trade ideas and engage with Sales and Trading on a regular basis


• Engage with partners in IT to enhance the pricing and risk management infrastructure to improve trade productivity and reduce operational risk.

Decision-making and Problem Solving

Manage the risk from residual positions by working closely with infra partners, and trading teams in Macro, and making sure all thresholds/limits for the desk are met.

Risk and Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Person Specification

Good communication skills, both orally and written, as this role will require that the person interact regionally and globally with internal stakeholders and external clients.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:


• An experience in Macro Rates and FX derivatives risk management, with prior experience in Macro FX and Rates automating solutions


• Experience with Macro financial market behaviours, relevant clients, relevant derivative product, and the pricing of capital-intensive transaction


• Experience with handling the Architecture for creating and maintaining Yield Curves (By bootstrapping and other methods), Volatility Curves/Surfaces and other Data Structures essential for pricing


• Experience with Backend Risk Databases (design and querying) in KDB/Q+, being able to load and display risk in a manner specified by the desk


• Experience with pricing systems, being able to understand the logic for systems written in programming languages like C#, F# and making them more leverageable by implementing them in newer programming frameworks enhancing the desk's pricing capabilities.


• Experience with Distributed Systems, using both advanced messaging frameworks as well as appropriate locking strategies to distribute pricing workloads over multiple nodes

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:


• Minimum1- 2 years' experience in Macro Trading/Structuring


• Graduated from a Tier 1 University with excellent academic credentials in Quantitative Fields with a Programming Backgroung


• Strong analytical and problem solving skills using math, statistics, and programming

Tell employers what skills you have

Yield Curve
Leadership
Structuring
Hedging
Derivatives
Quantitative Research
F#
Problem Solving
Risk Management
Distributed Systems
Trading Strategies
Statistics
C#
Stakeholder Management
Pricing

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