Prime Services Negotiator Vice President

Archer; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, in collaboration with Barclays, seeks a Prime Services Negotiator Vice President in New York to draft, negotiate, and execute capital markets contracts supporting Prime Services and Prime Derivative Services.

You will handle futures, ISDA master agreements, repurchase and stock lending agreements, advise senior stakeholders on risk and controls, and coordinate with legal and risk teams to ensure timely execution. This is a high-impact role with global exposure and complex negotiations.

Qualifications

• Experience drafting, negotiating, and executing prime services agreements.
• Knowledge of capital markets contract documentation.
• Experience with Prime Brokerage, Futures, repurchase agreements, stock lending.
• Ability to advise on risk, controls, and legal considerations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee drafting, negotiating, and execution of prime services contracts.
• Support Barclays Prime Services and Prime Derivative Services businesses.
• Coordinate with legal counsel, risk management, and other internal teams.
• Advise stakeholders on regulatory and internal controls (LRRs).
• Manage the lifecycle of transaction documentation and related processes.

Skills

Prime services agreements

Drafting and negotiating contracts

Capital markets documentation

Prime Brokerage & related financing

Futures agreements

ISDA/CSA

Risk and controls advisory

Stakeholder management

Job description

Archer is collaborating with Barclays to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

As a Barclays Prime Services Negotiator Vice President, you will be responsible for drafting, negotiating, and executing capital markets contract documentation to support the Prime Services and Prime Derivative Services businesses. This is an exciting opportunity to showcase your knowledge drafting, negotiating, and executing prime services agreements (including Futures agreements, OTC clearing agreements, and ISDA master agreements, repurchase agreements, and stock lending agreements), and providing the highest quality of service to multi-faceted and high-caliber clients.

To be successful as a Prime Services Negotiator Vice President, you should have experience with:

• The suite of prime services agreements
• Drafting, negotiating, and executing of capital markets contract documentation
• Prime Brokerage, Futures, repurchase agreements, stock lending agreements, and related financing businesses

Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include

• Futures agreements, OTC clearing agreements, and ISDA/CSA
• Intermediation agreements (FXPB)
• Advising senior stakeholders of the firm with respect to risk, controls, and legal

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 role is located in New York, NY.

Minimum Salary: $200,000

Maximum Salary: $260,000

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

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

Accountabilities

• 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.
• Coordination 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, counselling 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.