Join us as a Vice President in Portfolio Hedging & Optimisation at Barclays. The Portfolio Hedging & Optimisation (PH&O) team are responsible for the global credit hedging and financial resource optimisation of the lending portfolio across Barclays Corporate and Investment Bank. The team manages a global significant risk transfer programme (Colonnade) to support credit and capital management, and are responsible for lending and returns optimisation and strategic capital initiatives.
This role focuses on managing and enhancing the Colonnade trade management platform, driving system improvements, and ensuring high-quality risk, capital, and business data to support balance sheet optimisation and operational insights. It includes contributing to infrastructure changes tied to regulatory and bank-wide initiatives, while maintaining strong governance through clearly defined, documented, and consistently executed controls. The role emphasises proactive issue management, audit remediation, and continuous improvement of control frameworks through standardisation, automation, and enhanced processes. Additionally, it requires close collaboration with key stakeholders across Treasury, Risk, Technology, and Finance, while providing oversight and day-to-day leadership to the Capital Management (Glasgow) team, including issue resolution and escalation.
To be successful as a Vice President you should have:
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, combined with a detail-oriented approach in fast-paced environments with multiple priorities.
- Some level of experience in risk and controls within financial services environment
- Intellectually curious, proactive, and motivated to improve processes, drive efficiencies, and suggest new approaches.
- Hands-on contributor with strong follow-through, able to support both governance and operational aspects of the program.
Additional skills of value include:
- Operational management lifecycle of processes or trade
- Exposure to change management process, managing prioritisations and multiple projects concurrently
- Clear and effective communicator, capable of presenting and explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Understanding of capital, returns (RWA, RoRWA, PD, LGD, EAD)
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
The role is based in Glasgow.
Purpose of the role
Portfolio Hedging & Optimization (PH&O) structures and executes risk transfer trades. Primary responsibility of this role is to support with the origination and ongoing management of these structured trades.
Accountabilities
- Partner with internal Structuring, Treasury and Middle Office to execute new structured transactions, as part of a deal team. .
- Ongoing management and optimization of the structured transactions, partnering with internal teams and external parties such as law firms/verification agents, rating agencies and agent banks. .
- Together with relationship/Sales teams, support with investor engagement including queries related to existing and prospective transactions .
- Support of wider portfolio optimization initiatives as well as analytics, returns and model enhancements. .
Vice President Expectations
- 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. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- 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.
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.
