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Agency CMO Trading Analyst

Barclays · New York, NY · 3 wk ago
Finance$110k/yrFull-time
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for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. The posting includes many sections: description, responsibilities, qualifications, skills, location, salary, purpose, accountabilities, analyst expectations, values etc. Need to parse. We need to decide which sections to include. Likely: About the role (intro paragraph), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements/Qualifications (experience needed), Skills (other highly valued skills), Pay (salary range), maybe Benefits? Not mentioned. Schedule? Not mentioned. So we include About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Pay. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to use
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    for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information. So we need to capture all details from the posting, but we can combine into sections. Let's extract content: Intro: "Join Barclays as an Agency Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO) Trading Analyst. At Barclays, our vision is clear to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions." Then description of role: "In this role, you will execute trades and guide risk across a defined portfolio of Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities and related financial instruments, ensuring alignment with market conditions and firm strategy. You will support daily market-making and hedging activities while maintaining ample oversight of risk metrics, P&L reporting, and trade accuracy. You will collaborate closely with structurers, customer service teams, research, and technology partners to enhance analytics, trading infrastructure, and deal execution." That's about the role. Then "To be successful as an Agency CMO Trading Analyst, you should have:" then list: - Experience in Agency MBS products, including agency pass-throughs, specified pools, and CMO structures - An understanding of market-making, hedging strategies, and risk portfolio - Proficiency in daily P&L preparation, reconciliation, and risk reporting Then "Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include" list: - Problem-solving capabilities with attention to detail - Effective communication skills for interfacing with various teams - Ability to coordinate multiple priorities and execute tasks under time-sensitive conditions - Collaborative mindset with a willingness to partner across functions to drive outcomes Then "You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills." That could be part of Requirements or Skills. Then location: "This role is located in our New York, NY office." Regulated by FINRA. Salary: Minimum Salary: $110,000 Maximum Salary: $125,000. Note about base salary only. Purpose of the role: "To execute trades and manage risk within a defined portfolio of financial instruments and staying informed about market trends and developments to make informed trading decisions." Accountabilities: list: - Execution of buy and sell orders or pricing of liquidity in various financial instruments while adhering to the bank's trading strategies and risk parameters. - Monitoring and analysis of global financial markets, economic indicators, news, and geopolitical events to identify trading opportunities and assess market risks. - Management and monitoring of the risk associated with the trading portfolio and ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal risk management guidelines. - Collaboration with research analysts and other teams to gather insights and information for trading decisions. Analyst Expectations: long paragraph about expectations, leadership behaviours etc. Might be considered part of Responsibilities or Qualifications. It's substantive. We could include under Responsibilities or maybe a separate section "Expectations". But we only have allowed headings list; we could put under Responsibilities or maybe "Qualifications". The instructions: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can choose among those. The Analyst Expectations could go under Responsibilities or Requirements. Probably Responsibilities. Values etc: "All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values..." That's boilerplate? Might be considered generic values; could be omitted as boilerplate? It's not cookie/navigation/legal/EEO but it's corporate values. Might be considered boilerplate but not explicitly listed to remove. However it's generic; maybe we can keep as part of About the role? But it's not specific to role. The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Values might be considered boilerplate but not explicitly listed. Safer to keep? Might be considered fluff. I'd keep it under About the role maybe. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include the values statement? It's substantive? It's generic but still part of posting. I'd include it as a paragraph under About the role. We must not repeat job title as heading. So no heading with the title. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's structure:

    About the role

    Join Barclays as an Agency Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMO) Trading Analyst. At Barclays, our vision is clear to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. In this role, you will execute trades and guide risk across a defined portfolio of Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities and related financial instruments, ensuring alignment with market conditions and firm strategy. You will support daily market-making and hedging activities while maintaining ample oversight of risk metrics, P&L reporting, and trade accuracy. You will collaborate closely with structurers, customer service teams, research, and technology partners to enhance analytics, trading infrastructure, and deal execution. 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.

    Responsibilities

    • Execute trades and manage risk within a defined portfolio of financial instruments and stay informed about market trends and developments to make informed trading decisions.
    • Execution of buy and sell orders or pricing of liquidity in various financial instruments while adhering to the bank's trading strategies and risk parameters.
    • Monitoring and analysis of global financial markets, economic indicators, news, and geopolitical events to identify trading opportunities and assess market risks.
    • Management and monitoring of the risk associated with the trading portfolio and ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal risk management guidelines.
    • Collaboration with research analysts and other teams to gather insights and information for trading decisions.
    • Support daily market-making and hedging activities while maintaining ample oversight of risk metrics, P&L reporting, and trade accuracy.
    • Collaborate closely with structurers, customer service teams, research, and technology partners to enhance analytics, trading infrastructure, and deal execution.
    But we have duplicated some points; we need to preserve all substantive info but avoid duplication? The instruction: "Remove ... duplicated lines". So we should deduplicate. Let's combine unique responsibilities. List unique responsibilities from posting: - Execute trades and guide risk across a defined portfolio of Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities and related financial instruments, ensuring alignment with market conditions and firm strategy. - Support daily market-making and hedging activities while maintaining ample oversight of risk metrics, P&L reporting, and trade accuracy. - Collaborate closely with structurers, customer service teams, research, and technology partners to enhance analytics, trading infrastructure, and deal execution. - Execution of buy and sell orders or pricing of liquidity in various financial instruments while adhering to the bank's trading strategies and risk parameters. - Monitoring and analysis of global financial markets, economic indicators, news, and geopolitical events to identify trading opportunities and assess market risks. - Management and monitoring of the risk associated with the trading portfolio and ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal risk management guidelines. - Collaboration with research analysts and other teams to gather insights and information for trading decisions. - Purpose: To execute trades and manage risk within a defined portfolio of financial instruments and staying informed about market trends and developments to make informed trading decisions. (similar to first) - Analyst Expectations: many points about leadership, technical expertise, etc. Might be considered responsibilities. We need to decide what to include. The Analyst Expectations section is long; we could treat as part of Responsibilities or maybe a separate section "Expectations" but not allowed. Could incorporate into Responsibilities as bullet points. Let's extract Analyst Expectations bullet-like sentences: - Perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement. - Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise. - Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise. - They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources. - 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate. - 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. That's a lot. It's substantive; we should include. Could be under Responsibilities or maybe a separate section "Expectations". Since only allowed headings list, we could put under Responsibilities as it's about expectations of the role. Thus Responsibilities will be a long list. Now Requirements/Qualifications: We have "To be successful as an Agency CMO Trading Analyst, you should have:" list three items. Also "You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills." That could be part of Requirements or Skills. We also have location and regulated by FINRA; could be under About the role or a separate section "Details". Not in allowed headings; maybe we put in About the role paragraph. Pay: we have salary range. Now Skills: "Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include" list four items. Thus we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Pay. We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title

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