Barclays
Location
Mumbai | India
Job description
Barclays Overview
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.
We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.
Working Flexibly
We're committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers' and clients' needs. Whether you have family commitments or you're a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.
Hybrid Working
Structured hybrid role:
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, 'anchor', days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.
Overall purpose of role
Head of Fixed Income Trading - India at Private Client India is the owner of the business within Investments pertaining to fixed income across capital markets (across money markets, bonds, vanilla and structured credits, and all other variants and structures). This role provides a comprehensive bouquet of solutions across these asset and product classes to Private Clients India's clients and customers, bringing the best of Barclays proposition both locally and globally and through curated external partners and counterparties. This role provides the leadership and business accountability related to all aspects of doing investments business across these services in Private Clients India.
Key Accountabilities
1. Running the business with a focus on Consistently Excellent returns .
2. Broadening and scaling the fixed income trading business with a focus on Consistently Excellent returns .
3. Ability to grow the business in line with the firm's growth aspirations.
4. Ability to retain, inculcate and grow Controls in line with the firm's policies.
5. Ability to retain, obtain and grow talent and actively collaborate across teams and businesses.
6. Ability to take all stakeholders in the region and globally along on the path forward.
Stakeholder Management and Leadership
1. Global Head of Fx & Capital Markets
2. Head of Investments, India
3. Head of Distribution, Private Clients India
4. Global Head of Investments
5. Global Head of Investment Services, Platform & Product Management
6. Control functions including but not restricted to Risk, Compliance, Legal and Audit
7. Stakeholders across other Investments functions in India
8. Stakeholders across the Ecosystem such as PB COO functions, Operations and IT
9. Stakeholder across Barclays Corporate and Investment Banking
Decision-making and Problem Solving
Strategic Solutions Group business within Private Clients India is complex, well-regulated, and demanding, centred around decision making and problem-solving. The head of these businesses requires extremely analytical and problem-solving skills for the business to be run in a Consistently Excellent way.
Risk and Control Objective
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do
Person Specification
The role requires extensive knowledge across asset classes and investment products, especially fixed income market in India. The role requires experience in delivering thought leadership, identifying trends and innovative ideas, sourcing, origination, selection, distribution and management of a large book of investments across market cycles and ideally through evolution of this industry in India.
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
1. Long fixed income investments experience centred in India
2. Thorough knowledge of Indian and global markets and investment products and services
3. Thorough knowledge of Private Banking & Wealth Management regulatory and industry landscape in India
4. Thorough knowledge of the fixed income investing across the yield and credit curves and across direct securities, funds, products, structures, and transactions in India
5. Thorough knowledge of business opportunities in the region in Investments
6. All necessary regulatory certifications, such as NISM exams, would be required
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
1. Leadership role in strong PB&WM and/or Asset Management franchises in India
2. Ability to build and grow consistently excellent investments business, especially managing and growing fixed income book, in PB&WM industry in India
3. Demonstrable track record in delivering fixed income thought leadership and strong communication skills
4. Ability to originate, book building and syndicate fixed income transactions
5. Team building and collaboration qualities
6. Key Clients relationship management qualities
7. Platform building and change management skills
8. Strong networking skills
Purpose and Values
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone's contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.
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