At Barclays, you will be part of the Asia Credit Trading Team within our Investment Bank.
In today’s increasingly complex credit markets, we are committed to helping clients maximise value by delivering superior ideas, solutions and liquidity across a full range of products.
Based in the world’s key credit market centres, our teams offer clients local markets expertise from a global platform. Credit strategists and fundamental analysts deliver high-impact thematic views, trade ideas and premier events across a wide range of credit products, all designed to help clients find the liquidity they need, when they need it.
Our full service, content-driven platform integrates our primary offering capabilities on behalf of issuer clients with our secondary trading capabilities on behalf of our investor clients. From investment grade securities through to distressed debt, we have experts dedicated to covering the full credit capital structure in multiple currencies.
Asia Credit Trading covers clients domiciled globally on Asia Credit products. Asia Credit Trading also cover clients based in Asia on Global credit products. These clients range from sovereign wealth funds to asset managers, hedge funds and private banks.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
What will you be doing?/ What we’re looking for:
Overall Purpose of the Role
The Asia credit business is growing its footprint and deploying capital in Asia – and specifically interested in China, particular China Outbound business and Southeast Asia. Relevant experience credit analysis work within the region would be added advantage. Understanding of and experience in primary financing coupled with aptitude for trading and investing opportunities in secondary loan and bond trading is key part of the job role. Both of these activities involve complex fundamental analysis. We are looking for a highly experienced desk analyst / trader to be based in Singapore.
Key Accountabilities, primarily responsible to
- Develop pipeline for the desk and analyse Private Financing and Distressed and part trading opportunities with a focus on China and Southeast Asia market, working in partnership with Banking and Distribution.
- Conduct credit analyses on prospective deals and price/risk manage the transactions.
- Contribute ideas to the Senior Traders in the team and assist in transaction approval process.
Stakeholder Management and Leadership
- The candidate would interact with various teams such as Trading, Sales, Banking and Structuring.
- Provide views on pricing risk to trading team.
Decision-making and Problem Solving
The role requires analytical and business skills for an individual to understand various trading products and private lending product. Part of this decision making comes from experience and knowledge of the client base that traffics in this product base.
Risk and Control Objective
Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.
Person Specification
- The candidate should have the understanding, client access and experience of China onshore markets and has transaction experience of China outbound Primary financing
- The candidate should have experience on Credit Analysis for Southeast Asia primary financing and secondary trading in particular for Singapore
- The candidate should have proven ability of Credit and recovery negotiations and experience of distressed assets
- The candidate should have the ability to build relationships with internal stakeholders including credit risk teams, Market Risk Teams, Legal, compliance, Sales and Banking
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
- Post Graduate Degree in Finance/ Masters in Business Administration/ Quantitative or relevant Discipline
- Preference for additional certifications such as Chartered Accountant/CFA Charterholder
- 8+ years of prior experience in Industry preferably in Credit Research, credit analysis, distressed Debt Trading, private lending
Skills that will help you in the role:
- Capability to take analyse situations in depth and execute Trading decisions where required
- Team player with interest in collaboration across business segments
- Strong analytical, communication and adaptive skill set
Where will you be working?
Our office is located in Marina Bay Financial Centre, which has been carefully crafted into a “city in a garden”. Overlooking the scenic skyline along the Marina Bay waterfront, the green spaces and rooftop terraces have been designed to optimise employee well-being. The centre provides an integrated live-work-play development, surrounded by shops, restaurants, gyms and an alfresco dining area. Our convenient office location means you’re just a 5-minute walk from the nearest MRT station.
