Liquid Finance Transition Manager

Barclays UK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in London is seeking a Liquid Finance Transition Manager responsible for onboarding clients across multiple platforms. The role involves managing relationships with various internal stakeholders and ensuring seamless client onboarding processes. Ideal candidates will have experience in financial services and a strong grasp of the Hedge Fund landscape, alongside excellent problem-solving and relationship-building skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in Transition Management or Prime Services.
• Understanding of clearing, settlement, and financing.
• Ability to build client relationships and facilitate onboarding.

Responsibilities

• Onboard clients across various platforms.
• Manage relationships with internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate internal efforts to meet client launch dates.

Skills

Client facing experience in financial services

Knowledge of Hedge Fund and Asset Manager landscape

Attention to detail

Problem-solving skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Understanding of Cash Equities

Understanding of Bonds

Knowledge of Repo

Knowledge of Exchange Traded Derivatives

Knowledge of OTC Clearing

Knowledge of FXPB

Job description

Join us at Barclays as a Liquid Finance Transition Manager, where you will be responsible for onboarding clients across multiple platforms and markets that we currently offer trading and investment opportunities for. As an AVP you will manage relationships of various internal stakeholders ranging from Sales, Tax, Legal, Credit, KYC, and Operations. Additionally, on-boarding serves as the primary point of contact for clients, handling the day-to-day dialogue and action. As the Transition Manager you will be responsible for end-to-end coordination of all new clients onto the Barclays platform across Equity Financing, Fixed Income Repo and Prime Brokerage, Futures Execution and Clearing, OTC Clearing and FXPB.

Some key accountabilities will include:

• Product Analysis: working with clients to translate their operational and trading needs onto the Barclays Prime Brokerage platform across products and entities. Coordinate with Sales, Risk, Pricing and Product to deliver seamless solutions to our client base.
• Stakeholder Management: Cultivating client relationships and facilitating the onboarding process end to end through regular communication on on-boarding requirements (such as KYC, Regulatory, Operations), and being central point of contact throughout the on-boarding process, including educating clients on platform capabilities and Barclays infrastructure.
• Project Management: internal coordination across key stakeholder groups to align prioritization, manage expectations and meet client go live dates.

To be successful as a Liquid Finance Transition Manager, you should:

• Demonstrate experience in a client facing financial services industry - a prior role in Transition Management, Prime Client Services or other Prime Services Client Facing roles is essential.
• Have a working understanding of the Hedge Fund and Asset Manager landscape, with focus on clearing, settlement and financing across products and strategies.
• Have a working knowledge of products including Cash Equities, Bonds, Repo, Equity Synthetics, Exchange Traded Derivatives, OTC Clearing and FXPB.
• Be detail oriented, with the ability to work in a resourceful manner but in a team environment with the ability to build internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Demonstrate willingness to improve processes and enhance end to end workflow.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is preferred
• Evaluative mindset with ability to problem solve and escalate to proper stakeholders accordingly

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.

You will be based in our Canary Wharf, London Office.

Purpose of the role

Liquid Finance Platform covers a variety of roles and is central to the delivery of best-in-class products and services, and for the provision of strategic client and risk solutions across the full spectrum of the Prime Financing businesses.

Accountabilities

• 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

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• 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 will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.