VP Structured Credit Trading GCFS

Job Description

Purpose of the role

To maintain the smooth and efficient operation of our trading desks, providing operational support and expertise to traders, sales professionals, and other key stakeholders, helping them maximize their productivity and minimize disruptions and handling administrative tasks, and providing market information and research. 

Accountabilities

• Provision of immediate and efficient technical support to traders and sales professionals on the trading desks, resolving hardware, software, and network-related issues to ensure uninterrupted trading activities.
• Coordination of trade execution by liaising with traders, clients, and other internal teams to ensure smooth transactions.
• Maintenance and updating of trade records, transaction logs, and client databases accurately.
• Reports, presentations, and documentation preparation to support sales and trading activities.
• Monitoring of market data and assist in the analysis of financial information for trading decisions.
• Operational tasks such as processing trades, confirming orders, and resolving trade discrepancies.

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 escalate 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 us as a “VP Structured Credit Trading GCFS” in Structured Credit trading team at Barclays focuses on trading bespoke structured products and structuring specific solutions for clients. Using underlying credit instruments, including Corporate, Financial & Sovereign bonds, single name CDS and Loans, the team aims to create products that cater to the specific needs of a client. Within Structured Credit Trading, the business is split as liability-side (or financing) business, asset-side business & CLO business.

To be a successful “VP Structured Credit Trading GCFS” The Liability side business focuses on providing bespoke financing solutions to credit funds, FIs and banks against wide variety of credit assets – both on a recourse and non-recourse basis. The Asset side business specializes in providing credit linked investment products to investors for yield enhancement. The Primary CLO business focuses on raising capital for our clients by arranging & placing portfolio of assets in CLO warehouses which are tranched and sold to institutional investors in the form of issuances.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, role sits within the Global Credit Financing & Solutions (GCFS) team and is responsible for driving execution, risk ownership, and strategic development of single asset financing and asset-backed lending (ABL) activities across US and EU desks. The candidate will work closely with traders, structurers, and global stakeholders to manage complex transactions, taking end-to-end ownership of risk, PnL, and lifecycle management of trades. In addition to technical delivery, the role will require leading and mentoring junior team members, acting as a key bridge between front office and control/support functions, and actively contributing to enhancing desk productivity through process improvement, automation, and thoughtful leadership.

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Lead the team in managing all risk, book-keeping and trade lifecycle events including: margin calls, interest payments, RWA/LBS, hedges, exposure calculations, book funding and trigger events.
• Help manage all risk reports (credit risk, funding) and daily PnL reconciliations.
• Assist in monitoring the credit performance of the obligors in the existing trades, including by use of proprietary data sources and summarizing information using Barclays provided AI tools like CoPilot.
• Drive optimisation and automation of desk tools, analytics, and workflows to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Act as a key escalation point for complex/non-standard transactions and problem situations.
• Ensure robust governance, controls, and compliance across all activities.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Strong expertise in structured credit products, including TRS, repo financing, and ABL structures.
• Proven experience in working closely with trading desks and influencing decision-making.
• Experience in leading or mentoring team members, with a collaborative and proactive approach.
• High degree of ownership, accountability, and commercial mindset.
• Candidate must be a self-starter and very pro-active.
• Excellent organizational skills and strong ability to multi-task.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

This role will be based out of NKP Mumbai.