Global Contract Services (Macro-Distribution) Senior Negotiator

Barclays Bank Plc; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK is seeking a Senior Negotiator to manage Master Trading Netting Agreements, focusing on ISDA derivatives. The role requires strong financial services experience, advanced stakeholder management skills, and the ability to work independently under tight deadlines. Key responsibilities include overseeing transactional processes and ensuring compliance with legal standards, while also leading negotiations to optimize capital usage. This is a permanent full-time position based in London.

Qualifications

• Experience negotiating ISDA documentation and other master agreements.
• Ability to work independently and manage a portfolio.
• Capacity to meet tight deadlines while managing competing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Oversee transactional processes ensuring compliance with legal standards.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to manage transactions efficiently.
• Review and manage legal documents for timely execution.
• Identify and communicate legal risks and regulatory changes.

Skills

Strong financial services experience

Stakeholder management skills

Understanding of end-to-end cycle times

Competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

Overview

To oversee and manage transactional processes, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and maintaining accurate documentation for financial transactions.

Responsibilities

• To ensure that the Transaction Services and Documentation activities are conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with these activities.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, including legal counsel, credit risk management, and other departments, to ensure that transactions are executed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Creation, review, negotiation and management of legal documents such as loan agreements, security documents, and other transactional documents, to ensure execution in a timely and efficient manner.
• Transaction support, including preparation of transaction summaries, conducting due diligence, and support to other departments as needed.
• Development and implementation of transaction processes and procedures to ensure that transactions are executed consistently.
• Pro‑active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.

Vice President Expectations

• To 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 elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counseling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also 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 - Energize and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi‑year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long‑term profits, organizational 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 organization 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.

Position at Barclays

Join us as a senior Global Contract Services (Macro‑Distribution) Senior Negotiator at Barclays where you will perform negotiations of Master Trading Netting Agreements (with a specific focus on the ISDA derivatives space) with the Bank's counterparties, directly contributing to the Bank's efficient use of capital. Whilst the role will entail a specific focus on Barclays' client base located in EMEA, the successful candidate may be called to service all coverage areas across Barclays' targeted client base globally.

Key Skills Required for this Role

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Strong financial services experience, in legal or as a negotiator.
• Sound knowledge of the ISDA documentation suite, with experience in other master agreements desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to work and manage portfolio independently with strong stakeholder management skills.
• Understanding of end‑to‑end cycle times and importance of MI and data capture.
• As a senior negotiator operating as an individual contributor, the successful candidate will still be expected to provide support, guidance, training and perform reviews for more junior members and peers in the team.
• Capacity to work to tight deadlines and demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities, particularly in the context of project work.
• Competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Other Highly Valued Skills

• French, Italian, Spanish speaker.
• Qualified lawyer in Scotland, England & Wales or other jurisdiction.

Assessment

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills. This is a permanent full time role based in London.

Company Values

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.