Barclays - Assistant Vice President - Reference Data Operations

Female candidates prefered

Overall purpose of role

Reference Data AVP roles is responsible for management of daily production activities within reference data operations team and also provide controls oversight for managed services.

Key Accountabilities - 

Key specific accountabilities.

- The role holder will ensure all processes have appropriate and consistent measures in place and that all Key Risk and Quality Indicators evolve in line with the growth of the business. They will implement productivity measures and set benchmarks, appropriate to the team's knowledge and capability, and ensure that all service level agreements are maintained or improved upon. They will ensure robust quality measures are in place.

- The role holder will be responsible for the identification and implementation of continued process enhancements designed to streamline all similar functions, eliminating duplication, highlighting and reinforcing best practice and ensuring consistent measurements and service delivery.

- Sets stretching objectives for self and team and delivers against those objectives. Leads, motivates, and develops team to create a high performance culture and enhances the knowledge base, skills, talent and capability within the teams.

- Communicates progress against plans, achievements, challenges and encourages feedback. Ensures that the teams have the correct training and tools to undertake their duties to the highest standards, delivering a world class service to Barclays clients.

- Stakeholder management and leadership.

- The role holder will manage relationships with key stakeholders from both Infrastructure and the Front Office to ensure a seamless and excellent customer service, always ensuring delivery of key service metrics and constantly developing performance.

- The right candidate will possess good leadership and people management skills, as they will be required to lead a team.

- Decision making and problem solving.

- The right candidate will be flexible and professional under pressure, with strong interpersonal skills together and a focus on succeeding in a challenging environment. They will have the ability to work accurately to deadlines and will be committed to proactively seeking new and innovative customer focused solutions.

- It is essential that the right candidate also have the ability to contribute and challenge within a team to improve performance, along with the ability to communicate with peers and senior members of the team. They will contribute positively to the organisational culture and will have the ability to work on their own initiative.

Risk and Control Objective -

- Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Barclays Operational Risk Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Standards.

- The role holder will ensure the very highest standard of risk control is adopted throughout their team and all relevant policies and procedures are adhered to.. All breaches, near misses or risk events will be managed and escalated where necessary.

Person Specification -

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

- Educated to a minimum of degree level or equivalent supplemented by relevant professional experience within the financial services industry including industry recognised qualifications.

- Minimum of 8 years of relevant markets operations experience gained in a similar organisation, global market data vendor or third party vendor supporting a similar process.

- Demonstrate experience of managing small teams in a Financial Services organisation with good leadership skills

- A detailed understanding of security asset attributes (eg. equity, fixed income, structured products, funds, and derivatives) and financial products.

- Advanced MS Excel and MS Office skills with an advanced understanding of databases and data analysis tools.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience -

- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent industry experience

- Must possess knowledge of Data Vendor such as Bloomberg, IDC, Reuters & Telekurs

- Knowledge on Client, Account and SSI related reference data

- External certification, PMP, Lean Six Sigma