Join us as an “Assistant VP - CEEMEA Desk Analyst” in credit trading team at Barclays is a team that focuses on trading corporate credit. The desk focuses on originating trading opportunities in CEEMEA (Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) Latin America and the US.

To be a successful “Assistant VP - CEEMEA Desk Analyst” where candidate would mainly cover CEEMEA regions supporting the onshore primary credit analyst in analysing companies for new transactions and monitoring the financial performance of the obligors in existing portfolio. The candidate would also be expected to produce analysis and presentations for senior management to track market news and trends.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, candidate is expected to exhibit high standards of understanding of risk, be able to think out of the box, has attention to detail and be sound in his/her decision making.

Basic/ Essential Qualifications:

• Provide high quality fundamental credit analysis on the Obligors.
• Build and maintain financial models, using underlying KPIs, including Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash flow statements.
• Listen to, participate in, take notes and summarise quarterly company management calls. Use the takeaways from the calls to update the financial model and credit view on the company.
• Perform comparative analysis of companies under coverage with other companies in the respective peer industry.
• Identify key trends/patterns in data from market data sources.
• Form a view on underlying obligor involving in depth credit analysis including business, financial analysis.
• Monitor industry developments and company news flow to gain stronger understanding of underlying trends and be able to use this to refine projections and make recommendations.

Desirable skillsets/ good to have:

• Highly analytical, strong numeracy skills and experience in analysing financials including public regulatory filings, management accounts and compliance certificates.
• Experience primarily in credit analysis, preferably covering Europe corporates and preferably in High Yield and distressed debt.
• Strong credit research mind set encompassing the understanding of covenants, capital structure, credit metrics and ability to synthesize the thoughts to provide a holistic credit view.
• Understanding of bond pricing and spread measures.
• Strong understanding of various parts of capital structure.
• Research and fact-based approach with ability to reason decisions through and justify recommendations with key data points and relevant qualitative considerations.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills. Fluent written and spoken English language skills are essential.
• Able to work through tight deadlines in a pressure environment.
• Strong team player with an ability to self-drive and run with tasks autonomously.

This role will be based out of NKP Mumbai.

Purpose of the role

Desk Analysts cover relevant sectors and credits and watch for news events. Desk Analysts work with Traders and Salespeople to convey company and market updates internally and externally to clients. Desk Analysts build financial models for the purpose of forecasting financial performance and evaluating capital structure opportunities. Desk Analysts spend significant time researching relevant companies and their industries to identify emerging trends which will impact subject company performance. Diligence consists of reading and understanding industry press, company financial reports and documents, expert interviews, and meeting with company management teams.

Accountabilities

• Maintenance and updating of financial models, as well as client databases accurately.
• Reports, presentations, and documentation preparation to support sales and trading activities.
• Monitoring of market data, industry news, company news and assist in the analysis of financial information for trading decisions.
• Monitoring financials and news flow for particular credits, sectors and general financial news
• Using your understanding of fundamental credit to work with traders to develop trade ideas
• Performing fundamental credit analysis on specific credits and developing actionable investment ideas for the trading desk
• Participating in earnings/company calls, building financial models, and maintaining trading blotters

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.