Markets Desk Analyst - VP

Barclays; New York (NY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Markets Desk Analyst - VP in New York to support the global Lender Finance platform. You will oversee borrowing base reporting, data governance, and process controls while collaborating with Trading, Portfolio Management, clients, and service providers to drive data quality and platform improvements.

You will assess skills in risk/control mindset, change leadership, and strategic thinking, and build financial models to forecast performance and capital structure

Qualifications

• Experience with borrowing base reporting, collateral management, or structured finance products.
• Data governance, reconciliations, and operational controls.
• Stakeholder management across front office, risk, and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update financial models and client databases accurately.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and documentation to support sales and trading activities.
• Monitor market data and news flow to assist trading decisions and credit analysis.
• Analyze financials and news for credits, sectors, and macro trends to share with desks.

Skills

Borrowing base reporting

Collateral management

Structured finance knowledge

Tools

Reporting platforms

Data infrastructure

Process automation

Job description

As a Markets Desk Analyst - VP, you will support the global Lender Finance platform by overseeing borrowing base reporting, data governance, and process controls. You will work closely with Trading, Portfolio Management, clients, and service providers to ensure accurate reporting and drive improvements in data and platform capabilities.

To be successful as a Markets Desk Analyst - VP, you should have experience with:

• Borrowing base reporting, collateral management, or structured finance products
• Data governance, reconciliations, and operational controls
• Stakeholder management across front office, risk, and operations teams

Some Other Valued Skills May Include

• Experience with reporting platforms, data infrastructure, or process automation
• Knowledge of lender finance, asset-backed financing, or secured lending
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on data quality and process improvement

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, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in New York, New York

Minimum Salary: $155,000

Maximum Salary: $250,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the role

Desk Analysts cover relevant sectors and credits and watch for news events. Desk Analysts work with Traders and Salespeople to convey company and market updates internally and externally to clients. Desk Analysts build financial models for the purpose of forecasting financial performance and evaluating capital structure opportunities. Desk Anaylsts spend significant time researching relevant companies and their industries to identify emerging trends which will impact subject company performance. Diligence consists of reading and understanding industry press, company financial reports and documents, expert interviews, and meeting with company management teams.

Accountabilities

• Maintenance and updating of financial models, as well as client databases accurately.
• Reports, presentations, and documentation preparation to support sales and trading activities.
• Monitoring of market data, industry news, company news and assist in the analysis of financial information for trading decisions.
• Monitoring financials and news flow for particular credits, sectors and general financial news
• Using your understanding of fundamental credit to work with traders to develop trade ideas
• Performing fundamental credit analysis on specific credits and developing actionable investment ideas for the trading desk
• Participating in earnings/company calls, building financial models, and maintaining trading blotters

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 – Energise 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 specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational 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 organisation 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.

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.