Barclays Hiring Analyst Securitized Products, Mumbai

Job Description

Purpose of the Role

The role focuses on supporting the smooth and efficient functioning of trading desks by delivering operational assistance to traders, sales teams, and key stakeholders. The position helps improve productivity, reduce disruptions, and contributes through administrative coordination, market insights, and research support.

Accountabilities

• Provide prompt technical support to traders and sales teams, addressing hardware, software, and network issues to maintain uninterrupted trading activity.
• Coordinate trade execution by collaborating with traders, clients, and internal teams to ensure transactions are completed smoothly.
• Maintain and update trade records, transaction logs, and client databases with accuracy.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and documentation that support trading and sales operations.
• Track market data and assist in analysing financial information used for trading decisions.
• Handle operational activities such as processing trades, confirming orders, and resolving discrepancies.

Analyst Expectations

• Carry out assigned activities on time and maintain a consistently high standard of delivery while contributing to continuous improvement.
• Apply technical knowledge and understanding of principles within the assigned area.
• Guide team members when required, allocate work, and coordinate resources.
• Develop technical expertise and act as a subject matter resource when appropriate.
• Collaborate with other functions and business areas to support operational outcomes.
• Take responsibility for the final results of operational processing and related activities.
• Escalate policy or procedural breaches where necessary and support the adoption of updated processes introduced for risk mitigation.
• Influence decisions within the area of expertise and contribute to improving control frameworks.
• Maintain awareness of how the role integrates with wider business functions, products, and processes.
• Analyse factual information carefully to make sound evaluations and resolve operational issues.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information and work with stakeholders across teams and functions.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate Barclays values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship. Employees should also embody the Barclays mindset of Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

The Securitized Products team focuses on connecting client supply and demand for financing solutions across multiple asset classes including loan portfolios and securities. The team works on products such as bridge loans, warehouse loans, and repo facilities across different jurisdictions. Working closely with Banking and Markets teams, the group provides advisory through execution services including origination, structuring, securitization, trading, and distribution while optimizing capital and returns.

In this role, the analyst will primarily support the US Residential Financing Desk with analytics, pricing comparisons, RWA reviews, exposure monitoring, and risk tracking.

The position supports securitized products desks by contributing to risk management and decision making through analysis and research on asset performance and financing risk. The team collaborates with stakeholders in London and the US, prepares periodic surveillance reports, forecasts trading book performance, conducts collateral analytics, and builds automation tools using Python and VBA.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, review, and analyse desk positions regularly.
• Develop calculation and verification models in Excel using VBA or Python to calculate borrowing bases for positions.
• Prepare analytical summaries and reports using Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
• Create and maintain risk monitoring files used in internal platforms to track performance of positions.
• Track investor reports from existing deals and summarise results in Excel and PowerPoint on a monthly basis.
• Work with desk members and support teams to enhance portfolio management, surveillance, and risk platforms.
• Engage with teams such as market risk, credit risk, PC, IVC, and IT to review and discuss risk reporting topics.
• Provide independent views on risk estimates and supporting justifications for desk reporting.
• Track project lifecycles and pipeline transactions, translating transaction details into measurable risk and surveillance metrics.
• Develop tools that monitor RWA, LBS, and P&L performance across trades and business lines.

Preferred Skills and Background

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering with a finance major or relevant finance experience.
• Understanding of financing businesses and RMBS, CMBS, or ABS products.
• Working knowledge of Excel, VBA, and Python.
• Knowledge of securitization, loan origination, and the lifecycle of securitized products.
• Ability to manage assigned processes independently.
• Graduate or MBA from a leading engineering or business institution is advantageous.
• Progress toward CFA or FRM certification is preferred.