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About the Role

Oversee and manage transactional processes, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and maintaining accurate documentation for financial transactions. Support the Barclays Markets Business across Rates, FX, Credit, Latam and Risk Solutions Group, predominantly for corporate and private equity clients. Draft, negotiate, and execute master and collateral agreements and ancillary documentation (primarily for ISDA), managing them from inception to completion. Negotiate with clients and internal teams such as credit risk, sales and trading business, collateral management, treasury, tax, and client onboarding. Ensure MI is adequately captured by updating internal systems and managing data efficiently. Stay informed of regulatory updates, take ownership of capacity and authority checks, and conduct due diligence (including netting and collateral enforceability).

Responsibilities

• Ensure Transaction Services and Documentation activities comply with applicable laws and regulations.
• Help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with these activities.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, including legal counsel, credit risk management, and other departments, to ensure timely and efficient transaction execution.
• Create, review, negotiate, and manage legal documents such as loan agreements, security documents, and other transactional documents.
• Provide transaction support, including preparing transaction summaries, conducting due diligence, and assisting other departments.
• Develop and implement transaction processes and procedures for consistent execution.
• Pro-actively identify, communicate, and provide legal advice on applicable laws, rules, and regulations (LRRs).
• Stay updated on changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area.
• Ensure LRRs are allocated to and reflected within relevant policies, standards, and controls.
• 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.
• Define jobs and responsibilities, plan for department's future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes (if managing a team).
• Lead specialists to influence department operations in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities, balancing short and long-term goals, and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements (if managing a team).
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver excellent standards (if managing a team).
• Act as a subject matter expert within own discipline and guide technical direction (if an individual contributor).
• Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members (if an individual contributor).
• Identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments (if an individual contributor).
• Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists (if an individual contributor).
• Provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions (if an individual contributor).
• 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.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of organization functions to contribute to business goals.
• Collaborate with other work areas for business-aligned support to stay updated on business activity and strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
• Define problems and develop innovative solutions through in-depth analysis with interpretative thinking.
• Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.
• Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Use influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
• Demonstrate Barclays Values (Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, Stewardship).
• Demonstrate Barclays Mindset (Empower, Challenge, Drive).

Requirements

• Experience in the financial industry with a focus on derivatives master documentation (primarily in relation to ISDA), DF protocol, FIA execution agreements.
• Familiarity with loan linked ISDA terms and associated Credit Agreements.
• Familiarity with collateral arrangements and credit support annexes (including UMR VM and IM).
• Experience with account control agreements.

Skills

• Derivatives master documentation (ISDA)
• DF protocol
• FIA execution agreements
• Loan linked ISDA terms
• Credit Agreements
• Collateral arrangements
• Credit support annexes (UMR VM and IM)
• Account control agreements
• MRA
• GMRA
• GMSLA
• MSFTA
• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• Spanish/Portuguese (preferred)
• Negotiation
• Legal document drafting
• Due diligence
• Regulatory updates
• Data management

Location

• New York, NY

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Law Degree (preferred)

Salary/Compensations

• $200,000
• $260,000

About the Company

• Barclays is a global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management services.