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Job Description

Purpose of the Role

The Apprentice Trainee will support the wider team in the function they are aligned with and participate in day-to-day operational activities. The role focuses on understanding business processes, transactions, and operational workflows while gaining practical exposure through on-the-job learning.

Key Accountabilities

• Assist with daily operational tasks and project activities, ensuring quality and accuracy in execution.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to help support business initiatives.
• Participate in structured training and mentorship programs to build knowledge and skills.
• Carry out work according to defined procedures and escalate policy breaches where required.
• Take ownership of assigned work while supporting risk management and control processes.
• Understand how individual responsibilities contribute to overall team activities and operational goals.
• Follow clearly defined instructions and make simple decisions within documented guidelines.
• Develop a sound understanding of operational procedures and evaluate appropriate solutions for routine tasks.
• Support stakeholder and customer needs through transactional processing and service activities.

Analyst Expectations

• Deliver operational tasks in a timely manner while maintaining high standards of quality.
• Provide support to stakeholders and customers through efficient operational execution.
• Follow established processes and collaborate with team members to complete assigned work.
• Identify and escalate policy or procedural breaches when necessary.
• Take responsibility for customer service and operational delivery tasks.
• Strengthen risk controls and ensure compliance with relevant regulations, rules, and codes of conduct.
• Understand the responsibilities of the role and how the team contributes to broader business objectives.
• Work within well-defined procedures that may include multiple routine tasks.
• Analyze factual information and select suitable options from available alternatives.
• Build working relationships with stakeholders and customers to support smooth operational processes and address requirements.

All colleagues are expected to demonstrate the Barclays values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship. Employees should also reflect the Barclays mindset by empowering others, challenging ideas constructively, and driving results.

Functional Areas

CIB: Assist in supporting financing solutions for clients by helping prepare marketing materials, performing credit analysis, and supporting the execution of financing transactions across sectors.

COO Office: Monitor regulatory developments in India's financial services sector, develop execution plans to ensure compliance, coordinate with stakeholders, and publish progress dashboards. The role may involve using GenAI tools to track changes and create reporting dashboards.

Customer Service Operations: Interact with corporate clients through branch networks, email, white mail, and phone channels. The team also supports debit card hot listing and fraud reporting related to IMPS payments.

Finance: Support financial control processes to ensure Barclays meets external reporting obligations, including statutory financial statements and regulatory filings. Activities include ensuring procedures are completed for timely and accurate reporting.

FX Operations: Global Market Operations manages FX, derivatives, fixed income, and money market activities. Products include interest rate derivatives, FX spot, forwards, options, fixed income instruments, loans, deposits, bonds, and government securities.

Markets Business Management: Oversee governance across macro trading businesses, ensuring compliance with control frameworks, regulatory standards, and pricing governance. Work closely with trading desks to monitor P&L, balance sheet usage, and performance metrics.

Markets Sales Support: Provide operational and administrative support to trading desks and sales teams. This includes handling routine processes, supporting research activities, and sharing relevant market information.

Markets Trading Support: Coordinate trade execution by working with traders, clients, and internal teams to ensure smooth and accurate transaction processing.

Risk: Maintain data integrity within risk management processes and update credit risk systems to ensure parameters align with approved limits. Support senior credit officers with portfolio risk assessments and ensure compliance with internal and regulatory standards.

Credit: Work with private bankers, service managers, and infrastructure teams to deliver product solutions, trade ideas, and strategies for clients.

Company Secretarial (CS): Support governance, compliance, and regulatory responsibilities across multiple legal entities to meet corporate law requirements for Barclays Private Bank in India.

Investment Teams: Assist investment professionals with preparing presentations, analytics, and client reporting. Activities include portfolio analysis, report preparation, and data gathering using platforms such as Bloomberg, ICRA MFI, and Morningstar.