Quantitative Analytics Liquid Financing AVP

2764 Barclays Capital Inc.; City of Niagara Falls (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in New York, NY invites a Quantitative Analytics AVP to apply advanced modelling to risk, margin, and trading strategies across fixed income and equity products.

You will develop and implement quantitative models, support front office analytics, and work with sales teams to tailor client solutions, while driving data-driven decision making in a fast-paced trading environment.

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role To provide quantitative and analytical expertise to support trading strategies, risk management, and decision-making within the investment banking domain, applying quantitative analysis, mathematical modelling, and technology to optimise trading and investment opportunities.

Accountabilities Development and implementation of quantitative models and strategies to derive insight into market trends and optimize trading decisions, pricing, and risk management across various financial products and markets. Working closely with sales teams to identify clients' needs and develop customised solutions. In-depth research, data analysis, and statistical modelling to derive insights into market trends, pricing, and risk dynamics. Provide front office infrastructure support though ownership and maintenance of analytical libraries. Provision of expertise on quantitative methodologies, technological advancements, and industry best practices to drive innovation within the trading environment.

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.

Join Barclays as a Quantitative Analytics Liquid Financing AVP, where you will be focusing on Risk and Margin methodologies.

The Prime Risk team, which sets and monitors client margin and risk, is the main stakeholder.

To be successful as a Quantitative Analytics Liquid Financing AVP, you should have:

• Experience with Fixed Income or Equity products and models
• Familiar with Calculus, Linear Algebra, and data analysis using AI ML techniques
• Extensive working knowledge of Python and familiarity with object-oriented programming
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complicated concepts in a simple, non-technical way, to a variety of internal stakeholders
• Experience delivering projects and working on multiple key ideas in parallel

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience working on Prime Brokerage, XVA, or Corporate Treasury desks
• Knowledge of financial products relevant to the Liquid Financing business, e.g. repo, margin loans, futures, and equity options
• Knowledge of margin methodologies and stress scenarios
• Experience with cross-platform / cross-technology development (Windows/Linux), CI/CD, workflow automation (AWS, Kubernetes), and databases
• Experience with data visualization tools, interface and libraries (e.g. Jupyter, Dash, Rest API); experience with AI coding assistants such as Claude Code

The role is located in New York, NY

Minimum Salary: $125,000 Maximum Salary: $175,000

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.

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.