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About the Role
The Agency CMO Trader will execute trades and manage risk within a defined portfolio of financial instruments, staying informed about market trends and developments to make informed trading decisions. This role is crucial for redefining the future of banking and crafting innovative solutions at Barclays.
Responsibilities
- Execute buy and sell orders or price liquidity in various financial instruments while adhering to the bank's trading strategies and risk parameters.
- Monitor and analyze global financial markets, economic indicators, news, and geopolitical events to identify trading opportunities and assess market risks.
- Manage and monitor the risk associated with the trading portfolio and ensure compliance with regulatory and internal risk management guidelines.
- Collaborate with research analysts and other teams to gather insights and information for trading decisions.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lead trade execution and risk management across a defined portfolio of Agency MBS and related instruments, with a particular focus on Agency CMO structures.
- Drive the Agency CMO business in close coordination with sales distribution and local and global trading management.
- Support revenue growth while maintaining disciplined risk-taking.
- Generate Agency CMO trade ideas based on market conditions, supply-demand dynamics, prepayment analysis, and structural alpha.
- Deliver client solutions, manage new-issue risk, and support Agency deal execution.
- Engage with clients across Agency pass-throughs, specified pools, and CMOs.
- Provide active liquidity in both primary and secondary markets while operating within established risk parameters.
- Evaluate prepayment behavior and manage mortgage convexity risk using rates, MBS, volatility, and hedging instruments in line with regulatory and internal guidelines.
Requirements
- Experience with generating Agency CMO trade ideas based on market conditions, supply-demand dynamics, prepayment analysis, and structural alpha.
- Experience delivering client solutions, managing new-issue risk, and supporting Agency deal execution.
- Experience engaging with clients across Agency pass-throughs, specified pools, and CMOs.
- Experience providing active liquidity in both primary and secondary markets while operating within established risk parameters.
- Experience evaluating prepayment behavior and managing mortgage convexity risk using rates, MBS, volatility, and hedging instruments in line with regulatory and internal guidelines.
- This role is regulated by FINRA.
Skills
- Liquidity provision
- Market-making dynamics
- Hedging strategies
- Portfolio risk management
- Analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Effective communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Execute tasks under time-sensitive conditions
- Collaborative mindset
- Willingness to partner across functions
- High degree of accountability
- Integrity
- Ownership
- Risk and controls
- Change and transformation
- Business acumen
- Strategic thinking
- Digital and technology
- Job-specific technical skills
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Vice President
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000
- $250,000
About the Company
- At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.