Assistant Vice President - Derivative Middle Office

Step into the role of Assistant Vice President - Derivative Middle Office acts as the first line of defence, ensuring trade integrity, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience across all derivative products. The role provides strategic oversight of trade validation and trade lifecycle management, partnering closely with Front Office, clients, Technology, and Infrastructure teams to enforce robust controls and deliver timely, accurate execution.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role such as:

• Provide oversight of the end-to-end trade lifecycle, from booking through settlement, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and policy adherence

• Ensure internal trade validation within internal Desk/entities to mitigate operational and financial risk mitigate operational and financial risk.

• Act as first line risk owner, enforcing SLAs and maintaining audit ready processes.

• Ensure all trade exceptions are identified, investigated, challenged, and resolved in line with policy and risk appetite.

• Perform periodic control reviews and due diligence to proactively identify and remediate control gaps.

• Ensure all audit findings and risk incidents are remediated within agreed deadlines.

• Own completeness and accuracy of controls within the GMO control catalogue, ensuring robust assessment through the annual RCSA cycle.

Desirable skills set:

• Strong understanding of derivative products across asset classes, including Rates, Equities, Structured and Exotic products.

• Prior exposure to Middle Office Operations, Sales Support, or Product Control.

• Experience driving automation and strategic change in complex operational environments.

• Strong risk and control mindset, with experience owning audits, RCSAs, and remediation plans.

• Ability to manage high pressure environments and tight deadlines with accuracy and ownership.

• Excellent communication, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong team player, self-starter with positive attitude

You may be assessed on key essential skills relevant to succeed in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To support business areas with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution. 

Accountabilities

• Support various business areas with day-to-day initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate operational processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations in operational processes.
• Development and implementation of operational procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on operational performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in banking operations.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.