Sales, Trading and Structuring Graduate Programme (Rolling Intake)

Your role

To participate in the day-to-day activities of the markets division providing insights and expertise that help senior colleagues make informed decisions, develop new products and services, and identify new market opportunities.

Accountabilities:

• Execution of small research projects, research to support strategic decision making, preparation of presentations and reports to communicate research findings, collaboration with senior management to implement research findings for the global markets division.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to support business initiatives.
• Participation in training and development programs to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Identification of opportunities, development of business cases, management of the deployment and launch of new products and services for the global markets division.
• Management of client relationships and provision of customer service support to clients and customers, under steadily decreasing supervision, responding to questions about products and services, processing of transactions.
• Management of the development and implementation of financial models and strategies that support in decision making in the global markets division.
• Training and mentoring of junior colleagues.

As a Sales analyst, you may:

• Analyse and develop solutions to clients’ needs.
• Monitor markets and formulate trade ideas.
• Perform various analyses on fundamental and technical data.
• Attend client meetings or calls with traders, salespeople and research colleagues.

As a Trading analyst, you may:

• Monitor markets and generate trade ideas.
• Participate in pricing products.
• Help out with daily tasks such as trade reporting or P&L analysis.
• Assist with managing risk of the team’s trading books.

About you

To be considered for this programme, you must be:

• Pursuing an undergraduate degree with anticipated completion between December 2024 - June 2025.
• You'll have a minimum GPA of 3.2 and you will have an interest in business and finance, a good work ethic and be keen to learn and develop a technical skill set.

Compensation & benefits

The estimated salary for this role ranges from SGD 12,000 to SGD 18,000 monthly. However high you rise at Barclays, they believe all its employees should receive a competitive package of core benefits flexible to you and your family’s needs. At Barclays, you’ll support the customers and clients, and they’ll support you with rewards that will genuinely make a difference.

• Paid holiday and vacation.
• Competitive pay.
• Private medical care.
• Disability assurance.
• Flexible working.
• Life assurance.
• Voluntary benefits.
• Retirement planning.

Training & development

You can expect all the training and support you need to make your mark on the world. Put simply, Barclays will empower you to help determine how they do things and where they go next.

Analyst Expectations:

• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

Career progression

Over your time as an analyst, you’ll develop a solid understanding of the global markets while building your communication, quantitative and analytical skills. After intensive initial training, you will start your career as a salesperson or a trader on a specific desk in one of the business areas, including: Client Capital Management, Client Strategy, Commodities, Credit, eFICC Trading, Equities, Equity Financing, Foreign Exchange, Municipals, Rates, Structuring.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• search.jobs.barclays/job
• youtube.com/Barclays
• glassdoor.sg/job-listing